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1796-Jacob Nessly purchased land in Middleton Township of Columbiana County, Ohio

1799-Martin Landis purchased a tract of land in Fairfield County, Ohio 1803-Ohio became the seventeenth state of the Union

Henry Stemen moved to Fairfield County, Ohio, from Greene County,

Pennsylvania

1808-Mennonite congregation established in Trumbull County, Ohio

Amish from Somerset County, Pennsylvania, began to settle Holmes County, Ohio

1809-First Amish discipline recorded in America; result of conference of leaders likely in southeastern Pennsylvania

1815-Mennonites under Abraham Ziegler purchased property from Harmony Society near Zelienople, Butler County, Pennsylvania, for $100,000 Mennonite congregation organized in Columbiana and Mahoning counties, Ohio

1817- Wayne County Amish settlement established in eastern Ohio Brubaker's congregation organized in Ashland County, Ohio; later became extinct

Bishop Jacob Nold settled near Leetonia, Ohio, in Columbiana County and began spiritual ministry to pioneer congregations

1819-Swiss Mennonites established Sonnenberg congregation in Wayne County, Ohio

1820's-Mennonites arrived in Seneca County; settlement later became extinct

1825-Amish from Alsace in France founded Beech congregation in Stark County, Ohio

1829-Mennonite settlers from Bucks County, Pennsylvania, moved to Medina County, Ohio

1830- Blanchard congregation founded in Putnam County, Ohio, by Swiss Mennonites

1833-Amish moved from Pennsylvania to Long Green Valley in Maryland Guilford congregation organized in Medina County, Ohio Publication at Osnaburgh (now East Canton) in Stark County, Ohio, of Menno Simon's Zeugnisse der Wahrheit by Henrich Kurtz

1834-First session of Ohio Mennonite Conference; location not known Amish from Alsace and Montbeliard in France established community in Fulton County, Ohio

Martins congregation formed in Wayne County, Ohio 1835-Mennonites settled in Wood County, Ohio, but community did not survive

Publication of a daily devotional book, Kleines Hand-Buechlein, at Osnaburg, Stark County, Ohio, by Heinrich Kurtz

1839-Publication of Die Ernsthafte Christenpflicht and Ein Unparteyisches Gesang-Buch at Canton, Stark County, Ohio, by Peter Kaufmann and Co.

1840's-Amish from Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, settled in Lawrence County_ in western part of the state 1843-Amish from Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, began to settle in Cham-