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AUTHENTIC HISTORY 



DIVISION Y. 



EELIGIOUS, 



RELIGIOUS STATISTICS OF LANCASTER COUNTY, ACCORDING TO THE 

 EIGHTH CENSUS, TAKEN IN 1860. 



Adventist 



Baptist 



Do. (Mennonite) 



Do. (Seventh Day).. 



Do. (Tunker) 



Do. (Winebrenner) 



Episcopal 



Friends 



German Refonned 



Lutheran 



Methodist 



Moravian 



Presbyterian 



Do. (United)... 



Roman Catholic 



Swedenborgian 



Union 



Total 220 



35 



1 



11 



15 



24 



60 



2 



19 



3 



4 



1 



15 



350 



2,500 



11,105 



1,000 



2,400 



2,500 



8,125 



2,650 



7,600 



12,250 



21,535 



600 

 8,100 



950 

 3,400 



250 

 5,725 



86,040 



5s 



$ 120 



9,100 

 42,300 

 10,000 



6,050 

 17,800 

 49,800 

 17,150 

 71,350 

 110,750 

 133,375 



9,700 

 81,600 



4,000 

 55,000 



1,000 

 88,300 



$657,395 



BAPTISTS. 

 I. Mennonites. 



a. Old. "In 1709, several families from the Palatinate, descendants of tlie distressed 

 Swiss Mennonites settled on Pequea creek. With this colony came Hans Herr, a Menno- 

 nite minister, who dispensed to them the word of life. The Mennonites were of course the 

 first regularly organized denomination in the county. Among their first ministers in 

 this county, before 1725, were Hans Herr, Ulrich Breckbill, Hans Tschantz, Hans 

 Burkholter, Christian Herr, Benedict Hirschi, Martin Bear, Johannes Bauman. They 

 had been very numerous till about the year 1791, or '92, when a certain Martin Boehm 

 and others made inroads upon them, and a considerable nmnber seceded and united 

 themselves with the United Brethren or Vereinigte Brueder. They have about forty- 

 five ministers in the county. These are divided into bishops and ordinary ministers." — 

 Bupp. 



The Mennonites had in 1830 thirty-five meeting houses in the county. 

 b. Reformed. 



A branch of the former which seceded under the leadership of John Herr on the 



