I^ANCASTER COUNTY. !^\ 



residing in the same village, New Holland^ was 

 in the service of his countiy, when Lord Corn- 

 wallis was taken. We regret that we have not the 

 particulars of his services. May they both continue to 

 command the esteem which tliey so richly merit, and 

 when their warfare on earth ends, may they rest iii 

 peace.. 



CHAPTER VI. 



Ephrata — Origin of Gcnnan Baj:tist3 in Europe, and tlieir emigration to- 

 America — Some settle at Mueibach — Sieben Taeger association formed 

 at Ephrata, by Conrad Beissel — Change of life among tiiem-^They built 

 Kc'iar and Zion — Singular architecture of buildings — Fractur-Schriften. 

 by the Sisters — Specimens of original poetry — Eckerlein and the bell-^ 

 Its destination — Sabbath School established — Miller succeeds Beissel — 

 Juliana Penn's letter — Poetry dedicated to Miller — Present state of 

 Ephrata. List of names of the first inhabitants of Ephrata — Names of 

 some of the early settlers in Lancaster county. 



A settlement v/as commenced, in 1725, or 1726, on 

 the banks of the Cocalico creek, where the Reading 

 road, and Downingtown turnpike intersect, at present, in 

 Ephrata township, and is well known by the name of 

 "Kloster," or "Ephrata," or "Dunkertown," a nick- 

 name from the word Dunker, or Tunker, a corruption 

 of Taeicfer, Baptists. To show the origin of this settle- 

 ment, we shall introduce as preliminary, a brief historL- 

 cal sketch of the Germa,n Baptists, from whom the 

 founder of the society at Ephrata, seceded. Those 

 at Ephrata, are generally known by the name of ''Sieben 

 Taeger," Seventh Bay People; because they keep the 

 seventh, mstead of the Jirst day of the week, as the 

 Sabbath. 



