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Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
The United Brethren's Missionary Intelligencer, and Religious Miscellany
Author: Publisher:
ISBN:
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Languages : en
Pages : 656
Book Description
A Biographical History of York County, Pennsylvania
Author: John GibsonPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806306750
Category : York County
Languages : en
Pages : 224
Book Description
This work embraces about 1,200 sketches of 19th-century York Countians. Most sketches include a variety of genealogical and biographical data.
A Register of Members of the Moravian Church
Author: Abraham ReinckePublisher:
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Category : Moravians
Languages : en
Pages : 638
Book Description
Pennsylvania German Church Records of Births, Baptisms, Marriages, Burials, Etc
Author: Pennsylvania-German SocietyPublisher: Genealogical Publishing Com
ISBN: 0806310197
Category : Pennsylvania
Languages : en
Pages : 708
Book Description
This is the second volume of Pennsylvania German Church Records, a three-volume series which gives the genealogist access to all of the church records ever published in the Proceedings and Addresses of the Pennsylvania German Society .
Genealogical records of George Small
Author: Samuel SmallPublisher: Samuel Small
ISBN:
Category : Reference
Languages : en
Pages : 458
Book Description
Genealogical records of George Small
A Brief History of the Moravian Church
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Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
The Theology of the Czech Brethren from Hus to Comenius
Author: Craig D. AtwoodPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271035323
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 479
Book Description
"Examines the history and development of Moravian theology, from its origins in the Hussite movement to the work of Comenius. Explores the theology of the Unity of the Brethren within the context of the Protestant Reformation"--Provided by publisher.
The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, Abridged Edition
Author: Rowena McClintonPublisher: U of Nebraska Press
ISBN: 0803234392
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 184
Book Description
In 1801 the Moravians, a Pietist German-speaking group from Central Europe, founded the Springplace Mission at a site in present-day northwestern Georgia. The Moravians remained among the Cherokees for more than thirty years, longer than any other Christian group. John and Anna Rosina Gambold served at the mission from 1805 until Anna's death in 1821. Anna, the principal author of the diaries, chronicles the intimate details of Cherokee daily life for seventeen years. Anna describes mission life and what she heard and saw at Springplace: food preparation and consumption, transactions pertaining to land, Cherokee body ornaments, conjuring, Cherokee law and punishment, Green Corn ceremonies, ball play, and matriarchal and marriage traditions. She similarly recounts stories she heard about rainmaking, the origins of the Cherokee people, and how she herself conversed with curious Cherokees about Christian images and fixtures. She also recalls earthquakes, conversions, notable visitors, annuity distributions, and illnesses. This abridged edition offers selected excerpts from the definitive edition of the Springplace diary, enabling significant themes and events of Cherokee culture and history to emerge. Anna's carefully recorded observations reveal the Cherokees' worldview and allow readers a glimpse into a time of change and upheaval for the tribe.
The Searcher
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Category : Genealogy
Languages : en
Pages : 756
Book Description
The Letters of Mary Penry
Author: Scott Paul GordonPublisher: Penn State Press
ISBN: 0271082828
Category : Literary Collections
Languages : en
Pages : 368
Book Description
In The Letters of Mary Penry, Scott Paul Gordon provides unprecedented access to the intimate world of a Moravian single sister. This vast collection of letters—compiled, transcribed, and annotated by Gordon—introduces readers to an unmarried woman who worked, worshiped, and wrote about her experience living in Moravian religious communities at the time of the American Revolution and early republic. Penry, a Welsh immigrant and a convert to the Moravian faith, was well connected in both the international Moravian community and the state of Pennsylvania. She counted among her acquaintances Elizabeth Sandwith Drinker and Hannah Callender Sansom, two American women whose writings have also been preserved, in addition to members of some of the most prominent families in Philadelphia, such as the Shippens, the Franklins, and the Rushes. This collection brings together more than seventy of Penry’s letters, few of which have been previously published. Gordon’s introduction provides a useful context for understanding the letters and the unique woman who wrote them. This collection of Penry’s letters broadens perspectives on early America and the eighteenth-century Moravian Church by providing a sustained look at the spiritual and social life of a single woman at a time when singleness was extraordinarily rare. It also makes an important contribution to the recovery of women’s voices in early America, amplifying views on politics, religion, and social networks from a time when few women’s perspectives on these subjects have been preserved.
