Appendix III

Chronology of Events (1525-1968)

European Origins

1525-Founding of Swiss Brethren movement by Conrad Grebe] in Zurich, Switzerland

1527-Adoption of Schleitheim Confession of Faith in Switzerland 1536-Conversion of Menno Simons from Catholic faith to Anabaptism 1632-Adoption of Confession of Faith at Dordrecht, Holland 1693-1711-Division in Switzerland and South Germany led by Jakob Ammann

In Colonial Pennsylvania

1683-First Mennonite arrived at Germantown, Pennsylvania, from Holland 1708-First baptism and first Lord's Sapper at Germantown Church 1710-Pequea settlement in present Lancaster County, Pennsylvania 1725-First Mennonite conference held in America at Germantown, Pennsylvania, where the Dordrecht Confession of Faith was adopted as the

official confession of American Mennonites

1727-First Mennonite work to be printed in the New World appeared in

Philadelphia under the title of The Christian Confession of the Faith

of the Harmless (Nonresistant) Christians in the Netherlands, known

by the name of Mennonites

Amish names begin to appear on ship lists at Philadelphia

1742-First American edition of the Ausbund, oldest hymnbook of the Swiss Brethren, printed by Christopher Saur at Germantown, Pennsylvania

1748-German Martyrs Mirror printed for American Mennonites by the Seventh-Day Baptists at the Ephrata Cloisters

1749-Jacob Hertzler, first Amish bishop to come to America, arrived

1755--Lancaster area Mennonites petition the Pennsylvania Assembly protesting possible military implications of the Declarations of Allegiance, Fidelity, and Abjuration required upon naturalization of German immigrants

1757-Hostetler family massacred by Indians at Northkill settlement near Hamburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania

1775-Mennonites joined with Tankers (now Church of the Brethren) to petition the colonial General Assembly of Pennsylvania to grant freedom of conscience and to allow them "to be helpful to those who are in need and distressed circumstances. .."

1786-Death of Jacob Hertzler

Westward Pioneering

1783-Northwest Territory ceded by England to the United States 1787-Northwest Ordinance passed by Congress, an act of far-reaching importance for the settlement of the Midwest

1790's-Amish settled in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, from Berks, Chester,

and Lancaster counties

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