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water by trine immersion ; and after they came up out 

 of the water, and liad changed their clothes, they were 

 filled with joy, and by the grace of God, these expres- 

 sions were revived in their minds with peculiar energy, 

 "be ye fruitful and multiply." 



They met with no small share of opposition and per- 

 secution, notwithstanding these, they soon increased, 

 wherever the hand of persecution had driven them; 

 some fled to llolland, some to Creyfels, in the Dutchy of 

 Cleves; and the mother church voluntarily removed t(J 

 Serustervin, in Friesland. In a very short time, there were 

 efficient laborers in this branch of God's moral vineyard; 

 especially at Creyfels. Among the brethren there were 

 John II. Kalklosor, from Frankenthal, Christian Leib, 

 and Abraham Dubois, from Ebstcin, John Naas, and 

 others, from the north, Peter Becker, from Dilsheim, 

 John H. Traut, and his brethren, and Stephen Koch, 

 George B. Gantz, from Umstadt, and Michael Ecker- 

 ling, from Stras1)urg. Among these, as their leader, was 

 Alexander Mack, who devoted his property to the com- 

 mon use of the society, and emigrated to Pennsylvania, 

 in 1729,* where persecuted virtue found an asylum 

 under the benign Goverimient of Penn. They first 

 settled at Germantown, some at Skippack, Oley, others 

 at Conestoga, and elsewhere. A congregation of them 

 was organized, and they chose Peter Becker, as official 

 ba])tizer. 



The society increased rapidly, and soon a church was 

 formed in Lancaster county, at Muclbach, (Mill creek). 

 One of the prominent members of this last mentioned 



•Im lahr, 1729, ist Alexander Mack, der Urstaender der 

 Taeufer, samt dm ucbrigen gcdachtcr GcMiieinde, von Fries- 

 land abgcsctzt und in Pcnnsylvanicn angekommen. — Peter 

 Miller. 



