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A settlement having begun, forming the nucleus of a 

 neighborhood or community of neiglibors, German and 

 French settled around them; among these were the 

 Ferree family, Daniel Ferree and his sons; Isaac Le- 

 fevre,* Slaymaker and others, of whom a particular ac- 

 count will be given in the sequel. Every ucav country, 



unity. This advantage was procured them by the sensible and 

 prudent management of that champion in Protestanism, Menno 

 Simon. This wise, learned and prudent man, as said before, 

 was chosen by them as their leader, that they might by his 

 paternal efforts, in the eyes of all Christendom, be cleared 

 from the blame which some of the Munsterites had incurred, 

 and which the enemies of the friends of Menno laid to their 

 charge. Menno accomplished this object — some of the per- 

 fectionists he reclaimed to order, and others he excluded. He 

 purified also the religious doctrines of the Baptists. He was 

 indefatigable in labors — he founded many communities, viz: — 

 in Friesland, Holland, Groningen, East Friesland, Brabant — 

 on the borders of the Baltic Sea — in Germany, in the Palati- 

 nate, in Alsace, Bavaria, Suabia, Switzerland, Austria, Mora- 

 via, &:c. He suffered more persecution, and endured more 

 fatigue, than all the rest of the reformers of his day — he died 

 the death of the righteous, at Fresenburg, January 31st, 1581. 



*" William Penn, Proprietor, &c. — Whereas my late com- 

 missioners of property, by a warrant bearing date the 10th 

 October, 1710, granted uuto John Rudolph Bundely, Hans 

 Herr, and divers other Germans, late inhabitants in or 

 near the Palatinate of the Ehine, 10,000 acres of land, to be 

 laid out by them on the north side of a hill about twenty miles 

 easterly of Conestogo, and near the head of Pequea creek, in 

 this province, by virtue of which warrant there was surveyed 

 and subdivided, at the instance of the said Martin Kendig, for 

 the use of Daniel Ferree and Isaac Lefevre, late of Steinmeis- 

 ter, in the Palatinate of the Rhine, a certain tract of land, situ- 

 ated and bounded by lands of Thomas Story, &c., two thousand 



acres." — Recorded July I2th, 1712. 



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