A History Of The German Baptist Brethren In Europe And America

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The publisher of this book utilises modern printing technologies as well as photocopying processes for reprinting and preserving rare works of literature that are out-of-print or on the verge of becoming lost. This book is one such reprint. General Books publication date: 2009 Original publication date: 1899 Original Publisher: Brethren Publishing House Subjects: Religion / Christianity / History Religion / Christianity / General Religion / Christianity / Baptist Religion / Christianity / Denominations Notes: This is a black and white OCR reprint of the original. It has no illustrations and there may be typos or missing text. When you buy the General Books edition of this book you get free trial access to Million-Books.com where you can select from more than a million books for free. Excerpt: CHAPTER IV. -- Branches Of The Mother Congregation In Germany. The Schwarzenau congregation flourished from the beginning. Its missionary spirit led to the founding of a second congregation in the Marienborn district. After their persecutions in Marienborn this new congregation found refuge in Creyfelt in 1715. A third congregation was established at Epstein, and many members were living in Switzerland of whom we have no record. The Schwarzenau congregation in 1720 was bitterly persecuted and its members under Alexander Mack fled for protection to Westervain in West Friesland.(1' This congregation flourished for nine years in Fries- land and then owing to the promising outlook in Pennsylvania the congregation chartered the ship Allen, James Craigie, Master/2) and sailed July 7, 1729, from Rotterdam, touching at Cowes, for Pennsylvania. They landed at Philadelphia, and qualified Sept. 15, 1729. The entire list of members crossing the ocean in the Allen is fifty-nine families, one hundred and twenty-six souls.(3) Only those males above the age of sixteen were required to qualify. (i) Sometimes called Surestervin. West Friesland; see Morgan Edward's History of the Baptists in America, Vol. I, Pt. IV. (2) Pennsylvania Arehives, Second Series, Vol. XVII, p. 18. (3) See page 93. By this qualification these Germans became subjects of the British Crown. The following is the declaration to which these B...

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