. The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants. * f THE MAN STANDS ON THE EXACT SPOT WHERE STOOD CHIRCI1 The stone with a cross marks the site of the second church. It is over the grave of Win. Valentine great-great-grrantlsou of the old soldier of the Revolution t\ Huguenot Absorption in America By A. C. Bachert, Tyrone, Pa. On all who bear Their name and lineage, may their mantle firmness for the truth; that cairn contentWith simple pl
. The Pennsylvania-German : devoted to the history, biography, genealogy, poetry, folk-lore and general interests of the Pennsylvania Germans and their descendants. * f THE MAN STANDS ON THE EXACT SPOT WHERE STOOD CHIRCI1 The stone with a cross marks the site of the second church. It is over the grave of Win. Valentine great-great-grrantlsou of the old soldier of the Revolution t\ Huguenot Absorption in America By A. C. Bachert, Tyrone, Pa. On all who bear Their name and lineage, may their mantle firmness for the truth; that cairn contentWith simple pleasures; that unswerving trustIn toil, adversity, and death, which castSuch healthful leaven mid the elementsThat peopled the New World.*. amalgamated with HE above caption should,in justice to that devotedand persecuted race, beAbsorption of the Hugue-nots, for the reason thatthousands, yea, tens ofthousands, of members ofthis element have becomethe various nat-ionalities of the countries to whichthey fled from persecutions and threat-ened death in their own native land ofFrance, during the XVIth, XVIIthand XVIIIth centuries. The limitedscope of an article of this sort will,however, not permit of such extensionand the writer is reluctantly compelledto circumscribe and confine himselfwithin the boundaries of America, andmore particularly Pennsylvania, mere-ly touching on foreign absorption in-sofar as may be necessary for illustra-tive purposes. Before taking up the main subject ofabsorption it may be well to submit afew remarks concerning the nameHuguenot, by which the FrenchProtestants are now generally known,and quotations from Chapter V. ofRupps History of Berks and Leba-non Counties, (Pa.) may best servethis purpose
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