The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . -settled. The vacant lands were rapidly taken up and sur-veyed for the purchasers, who soon turned the wildernessinto a blooming garden. Most of these settlers wereLutheran and Reformed. Accessions also came fromamong the various German Sabbatarians who were scat-. Adoption of Distinctive Dress. 191 tered through Falkiier Swamp, Coventry in Chester countyand elsewhere. These latter, many of whom were poorand without means, clustered around the settlement oftheir leader. Philadelph
The German sectarians of Pennsylvania : a critical and legendary history of the Ephrata Cloister and the Dunkers . -settled. The vacant lands were rapidly taken up and sur-veyed for the purchasers, who soon turned the wildernessinto a blooming garden. Most of these settlers wereLutheran and Reformed. Accessions also came fromamong the various German Sabbatarians who were scat-. Adoption of Distinctive Dress. 191 tered through Falkiier Swamp, Coventry in Chester countyand elsewhere. These latter, many of whom were poorand without means, clustered around the settlement oftheir leader. Philadelphia and the surrounding countryalso furnished some representatives of them. So greatwas this movement that when the year 1734 opened thecountry, within a radius of three or four miles from Beis-sels cabin, was all in possession of his followers. According to the Chronicon, Wherever there was aspring of water, no matter how unfertile the soil mightbe, there lived some household that was waiting for theLords salvation. The country was now divided into four parts or settle-ments, named respectively, Massa, Zoar, Hebron andKadesh. The site of only one of these settlements can bedefinitely located at the present day, viz., Zoar. This wasthe present Reamstown in East Cocalico township. Kadeshis believed to have been the original settlement on theCocalico, now the Kloster groun
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