Historical Committee

Hist. Mss. 1-450
Robert F. Ulle, 1948-1986
Documents on Germantown, Colonial Period, and Blacks and Slavery, 1706-1979 (Bulk, 1706-1841) (Documents are Photocopies)
6 Boxes (Long Green)

        Scope and Content                                                Page 1
        Series and Box Listing                                           Page 1
        Biographical Sketch                                               Page 3
        Administrative Information                                       Page 4
        Inventory                                                               Page 5
        Appendix: Subject Index of Documents #G1-G169    Pages 29-38

    Materials in this collection, as collected by Robert Ulle in the 1970s and 1980s relate primarily to a) Germantown, Pennsylvania, b) to the Mennonites of the Colonial period, and c) to the history of blacks and slavery in the United States of America.  Some of these documents were published in Conscience in Crisis: Mennonites and Other Peace Churches in America, 1739-1789, by Richard K. MacMaster, with Samuel L. Horst and Robert F. Ulle (Scottdale, Pennsylvania: Herald Press, 1979).  Fuller information on the collection can be found under administrative information.

Germantown / Colonial Documents:  # 001 - 306          Boxes 1-3 (Long Green)   Pages 4-14
    Germantown documents G-001 to G-271
    Colonial documents        G-272 to G-306
   Documents from MacMaster, 1777 (Single file)
   Singing School, Frick's Meetinghouse (Single file)

    Inventory includes annotated listing of documents #G001 - G169, as taken from Ulle's subject
    index. Documents #G170 - G306 had not been listed individually or described.

Series 00 - 30                            Boxes 4-5 (Long Green)   Pages 14-28
    Series 0:  Unidentified
    Series 1: Membership lists
    Series 2: Germantown Mennonite Congregation Minutes
    Series 3: Germantown Mennonite Congregation - other records
    Series 4: Colonial Germantown Accounts
    Series 5: Descriptions of Mennonites

    Series 6: Correspondence with Europe
    Series 7: New Amsterdam Mennonites
    Series 8: Somerset County        
    Series 9: European Background
    Series 10: Northampton Co., PA

    Series 11: Mennonites and politics
    Series 12:  Family Accounts
    Series 13:  Legal Documents
    Series 14:  Colonial Members, A-K
    Series 14:  Colonial Members, L-Z
    Series 15:  Montgomery Co., PA

    Series 16:  Franconia Conference
    Series 17:  Bucks Co., PA
    Series 18:  Lebanon Co., PA
    Series 19:  Indian Relations
    Series 20:  North Carolina

    Series 21:  Canada
    Series 22:  Lancaster County
    Series 23:  Nineteenth Century Germantown
    Series 24:  Ephrata Brethren
    Series 25:  York County

    Series 26:  Chester  County, PA
    Series 27:  Berks County
    Series 28:  War of 1812
    Series 29:  Civil War
    Series 30:  Virginia

Documents on a variety of subjects            Boxes 5-6 (Long Green)    Page 29
    Material re: Yellis Kassel, 17th century
    1778: McDowel to Bryan (Oath) (Missing, cannot identify)
    1781: Hieser to Gardner (Whig / Funck)
    17th Century Dutch Colonial American
    Interview with John F. Funk, by Charles Rittenhouse, 1924
    Woodson Papers, 1833-1926

    Documents, 1789-1913
    Document, 1886
    Documents, 1816-1831
    Blacks and Slavery, Documents, 1857-58
    "Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society," 1841
    History of the Germantown Mennonite Church, 1683-1720
    Francis Neff, in Germantown, 1719-1729, draft article by William Neff and John F. Murray,
        or Neff Newsletter

    Robert F. Ulle, son of George and June (Howe) Ulle was born in Berks County, PA on August 11, 1948.  He died in a Pittsburgh hospital on May 21, 1986.  He was married to Deborah Bellimor who survived him.  Ulle was a member of Perkasie Mennonite Church.  His funeral service was at Blooming Glen Mennonite Church, and he was buried at Perkasie Mennonite Church.  Robert F. Ulle worked on a doctoral dissertation in Afro-American history which was published posthumously in 1986.  He contributed heavily to Mennonite historical studies and was active in the Franconia Mennonite Conference Peace and Social Concerns Committee as well as the Central American Study Action Group (CASA).

Source: Tim Rice, "Introduction to Robert F. Ulle Archival Collection Hist. Mss. 1-247 [Found at the Mennonite Heritage Center, Harleysville, Pennsylvania]", Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania Newsletter, Volume 19, No. 4 (July 1992).

    These photocopied documents were deposited into the Archives by Bob Ulle, Philadephia, Pennsylvania, from 1973-1984.  One set of documents were deposited by Richard K. MacMaster, Bridgewater, Virginia, in 1976.  One box was deposited by his widow, Debra Ulle, Blooming Glen, Pennsylvania, in 1997. A partial listing of the documents is found in the Accession Record.

    A file folder list of the collection was first listed on April 1, 1998 by Dennis Stoesz.  It was then posted on the web.  Collection was updated by Monica Zimmerman on August 10, 2001, and it was reformatted on web by Kathyrn Yoder May 4, 2004.   The files were numbered by Nelda Nussbaum August 18, 2005.  A more detailed item description of the documents, and posting the invntory on the web, was made possible through the funding of the Showalter Foundation.  The description was based on Ulle's subject index, and listed by Nelda Nussbaum.  The series listing, biographical sketch, and administrative information was completed by Dennis Stoesz through the assistance of Joel Alderfer, Mennonite Heritage Center, Harleysville, Pennsylvania.  It was completed September 7, 2006.

    One should note that there is also a Robert F. Ulle Archival Collection located at the Mennonite Heritage Center, Harleysville, Pennsylvania.  Following Ulle's death in 1986, most of his historical research and records were donated to the Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania.  During the year of 1991 and January 1992, that collection was organized and inventoried by Timothy Rice of Bedminster Township, Bucks County, PA.  Rice's description of that collection provides a good introduction to the materials Ulle had deposited at the archives in Goshen earlier:
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[Quote from article by Tim Rice]

    The collection has three major divisions:  1)  Colonial and Revolutionary Era History with primary emphasis on Mennonite and Germantown history.  2)  Late 18th century to early/mid 20th century history with emphasis on Mennonites, Pennsylvania Germans, and Afro-Americans.  3)  Records pertaining to the Franconia Mennonite Conference Peace and Social Concerns Committee.

    In addition, Robert Ulle researched Old Order Mennonite history (Stauffer Mennonites).  These records were given to Amos B. Hoover for the Muddy Creek Farm Library of Denver, PA.  Robert Ulle researched the Mennonite Migrations to Ontario for the Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society until his final illness interrupted his work.

    The Colonial and Revolutionary History section contains research documenting how Mennonites and in some cases how Quakers dealt with events like the Naturalization Oaths of the early 1700's, the Paxton Gang and the Election Riots, the American Revolution and the Test Act.  Many of the files pertain to Germantown history, but a significant amount of research focuses on Lancaster, Bucks, and Northampton Counties in Pennsylvania and states other than Pennsylvania.  Much of his research in this section and the following one was used in the books Conscience in Crisis,  Mennonite History In America series, and John Ruth's Maintaining the Right Fellowship.  Included in this section is a guide to Colonial / Revolutionary War Documents by Robert F. Ulle.

    The portion of this collection which includes late eighteenth to early or mid-twentieth century contains a diversity of research.  It includes a number of files on Mennonite history dealing with war and peace, the Jacob Funk dispute, the Martyr's Mirror, the 1803 Zions Harfe, and Mennonite prosperity in 1876.  A second subsection contains research on general Pennsylvania German history including topics on folklore and transmission of food love in a Pennsylvania German family.  The third subsection on Afro-American and religion.  "Kinship and Ethnohistory in Philadelphia's Black Seventh Ward, 1838-1912" is also included.  A published copy of his doctoral dissertation entitled A History of St. Thomas African Episcopal Church, 1794-1865 can be found in the MHEP [Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania] library.  

    Source: Tim Rice, "Introduction to Robert F. Ulle Archival Collection Hist. Mss. 1-247 [Found at the Mennonite Heritage Center, Harleysville, Pennsylvania]", Mennonite Historians of Eastern Pennsylvania Newsletter, Volume 19, No. 4 (July 1992).

Contact information for Mennonite Heritage Center is: Sarah Wolfgang Heffner, director, Joel Alderfer, Librarian / Curator, 565 Yoder Rd, PO Box 82, Harleysville, PA 19438-0082, Telephone: (215) 256-3023, E-mail: info@mhep.org | Web site: www.mhep.org
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Germantown / Colonial Documents:   G Documents # 001 - 306:  Boxes 1 - 3 (Long Green)
Includes annotated listing of documents #G001 - G169, as taken from Ulle's subject index.
Documents #G170 - G306 had not been listed individually or described.

Box 1 (Long Green)

1/0    Subject Index to "G" Documents (Included in this Inventory in the Appendices)

1/1    Germantown documents G1 to G7

    G001    John Bayley to Thomas Wharton, June 27, 1777 concerning the killing of a collector by (Sml.Albright ?) and the Mennists.
    G002    [Letter, April 19, 1845, Dauphin Co., Dunkers Conestoga Massacre] [Letter not included in subject index]
    G003    Phillip Marsteller June 16, 1780, says Mennonites are driving their cattle over the hills;  since they have so many, he advocates confiscation of them.
    G004    Alexander McDowell to George Bryan June 1, 1778, about opposition to test oath by Mennonites and Quakers, and the advantage to be gained by formulating a less stringent oath.
    G005    Rd. McAlester to Thomas Wharton Hanover Nov. 12, 1777, difficulty in filling companies because of Quakers Menonists and Dunkers.
    G006    A. Cassel's account of Sowers persecution and trip to Valley Forge under guard.  Ca. 1900.
    G007    Governor's Observations to the Board concerning Mennonites and others taking oath of naturalization.  Sept. 1717.

1/2    Germantown documents G8 to G16

    G008     Pemberton Memo:  Mennonists giving money to aid in releasse of captives.  7th mo., 6 day, 1760.
    G009    [Terms of Subscription for the Menonists, Jan. 11, 1775][Not included in subject index]
    G010     Edward Burd to ?, Sept. 6, 1777;  letter shows the trauma of the arrests restrictions on liberty, etc.
    G011    [Copy of a Letter to the Committee of Lancaster County from the Pennsylvania Delegates in Congress, July 5, 1775][Not included in subject index.]
    Go12    [Letter to Jaspar Yeates Esq. About excusing Quakers & Menonists from arming][Not included in subject index]
    G013    [Letter to the Honourable the Delegates of the Province of Pennsylvania in the Continental Congress, June 3, 1775][Letter not included in subject index.]
    G014    [Letter of the Committee to Messrs. Graeff, Bare, Hays & Erisman, respecting the Disputes in Manheim & Rapho Townships.  Lancaster May 29, 1775] [Letter not included in subject index.]
    G015    [No file]
    G016    Address by N. B. Grubb on William Penn and Mennonites.

1/3    Germantown documents  G17 - G21

    G017    Edward Shippen to Henry Bouquet May 24, 1759 soliciting Menist support
    G018    Henry Bouqiet to Shippen May 25-26, 1759;  
    G019    Shippen to Bouquet, May 30, 1759 Trouble with greedy Menist waggon ers.
    G020    Shippen to Bouquet Aug. 17, 1759, Mennists reluctant to leave fields.
    G021    Matthias Slough to Henry Bouquet, Lancaster Jan. 29, 1765.  A Mennonite wants to buy Colonel Bouquet's land.

1/4    Germantown documents  G22 - G30

    G022    [Germantown telegraph n.d., article "Ancient Germantown" by S. F. Hotchkiss][Not listed in subject index.]
    G023    Keyser family fines given.
    G024    [Journals of Congress:  containing their Proceedings, Sept. 5, 1774 to Jan. 1, 1776][Not listed in subject index]
    G025    [Committee Meeting of Inspection and Observation of the County of Lancalter, on the 29th Day of May, 1775][Not included in subject index]
    G026    [History of the Underground Railroad, pages 174 & 175, 1883 ][Not included in subject index]
    G027    [History of the Underground Railroad, Chapter XIII, 1883.][Not included in subject index]
    G028    [From Lippencott's magazine, Feb. 1884, Old Germantown.][Not included in subject index]
    G029    Redmond Conygh__(?).  History of the Mennonists and Aymenists, or Amish.  Hazard's Register, 1831.  Note Shem and David Zook letter;  biography of Emmanual Zimmerman;  petition.
    G030    Three letters from Bethlehem to Brother Graff, one mentions Mennonites in Sackona mistreated over not taking the oath.  Oct. 1, 1778.

1/5    Germantown documents  G31 - G40

    G031    Historical Notes on Lancaster County, in Hazard's Register, 1830.  Notes on Presbyterian scruples on oath taking, Amish jurors; Paxton massacre, etc.
    G032    Bartram Galbraith to Thomas Wharton, Donegal May 19, 1777, problems in forming battalions in Mennonite settlements.
    G033    Bartram Galbraith to Thomas Wharton Phila June 2, 1777 on the difficulty in finding substitutes, and the marching of the religiously opposed to keep the militia from marching.
   G034    James Lang to Pennsylvania (?) Board, Lancaster June 22, 1777 says Mennonites are troublesome because they only sell for hard cash.
    G035    Bartram Galbraith to Pres. Wharton, June 27, 1777 another account of the Albright killing.
    G036    Thomas Wharton to Bayley, July 5, 1777, Further disposition of the Albright Affair.
    G037    Correspondence of John Lacey, June 1777 to May 1778, during Washington's army stay in southeastern Pennsylvania, orders, popular reactions to the army, provisioning Philadelphia, etc.
    G038    John Harris to James Burd, Paxton March 1, 1764 reports Quaker violense in the Paxton affair;  and likely political changes.
    G039    William Bingham to John Gibsoh, Phila.  May 4, 1764, on Presbyterian-Quaker conflict in polities.
    G040    Samuel Purviance jr. Phila. To James Burd, Sept. 10, 1764 about Quaker-Mennonite political alliance.

1/6    Germantown documents  G41 - G64

    G041    James Burd to (?) Lancaster Sept. 17, 1964, reports attempts to settle a ticket "according to the custom of this county."  Old ticket includes Emmanuel Carpenter;  Lutherans, Calvinists, and other Germans are for New Ticket.
    G042    Joseph Shippen to James Burd Phila.  Oct. 6, 1764;  Political plans against the Quakers, and work done among the Germans by the son of a Quaker, who might be appointed sherrif.
    G043    Mss. Poem on Paxton, Presbyterian against Quaker…
    G044    Samuel Purviance to (?) Sept. 20, 1765, assures that action is being taken against the Quaker party;  uniting Germans, Baptists and Presbyterians against the Quakers;  opposition to Franklin;  Mennonite plans to oppose this alliance;  suggestions to keep Mennonites from voting.
    G045    Edward Shippen to Mr. Burd Lancaster Sept. 16, 1768;  Mennonite leaders have met and formed a ticket.
    G046    William Atlee to James Burd Lancaster Sept. 20, 1768, on the forming of a ticket to defeat the Quakers.
    G047    [Meeting of the Committee of Inspection..Lancaster, June 5, 1775][Not included in subject index]
    G048    [Letter to James Burd, about compaint of some leading men among the Menonists, June 19, 1775][Not included in subject index]
    G049    E. Wickersham to Col. James Burd, Nov. 6, 1776 fears that Mennonites voted heavily and the convention is blown up.
    G050    [Philadelphia:  Henry Miller, 1776, about "conscientiously  scrupulous of bearing Arms"][Not included in subject index]
    G051    [Same source at Go50, about Conscience in military matters][Not included in subject index]

    G052    [Document about Phila Committee Petitions for increased penalties, Sept. 29, 1775][Not included in subject index]
    G053    [Informing that all able-bodied men between 15 and 50 immediately form into regular companies of militia etc., 1775][Not included in subject index]
    G054    [Not listed}
    G055    [The Petition and Remonstrance of the Committee of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia about the people wishing to not be a part of the military and not giving their money for the military, Oct. 31, 1775][Not included in subject index]
    G056    [Same as G056,  bearing arms, withholding finances by Quakers][Not included in subject index]
    G057    [Continuation of same Petition of G055, 56.][Not included in subject index]
    G058    [Continuation of same Petition, "We are always ready to pay the Tribute, that we may offend no Man, …and to pay taxes … but not at Liberty in Conscience to take up arms.."][Not included in subject index]
    G059    [Continuation of G058, "..all male white , capable of bearing arms, who shall not associate for the kDefence of this province, ought to contribute an Equivalent of the time spent by the Associators in acquiring the military Discipline..][Not included in subject index]
    G060    [List of names to be on a committee to prepare a set of rules and regulations for the government of the military association][Not included in subject index]
    G061    [Resolved, that the Committee be directed to make particular enquiry concerning the contributions made by the people called Menonists.][Not included in subject index]
    G062    [Resolutions directing the mode of levying Taxes on Non-Associators in Pennsylvania][Not included in subject index]
    G063    [Petition in behalf of the Battalions][Not included in subject index]
    G064    [Petition of the Privates of the Military Association of the City and Liberties of Philadelphia][Not included in subject index]

1/7    Germantown documents  G65 - G88

    G065    Pennsylvania ordinance for seizure of arms from non-associators.
    G066    [Resolution about those people not taking up Arms, June 1775.][Not included in subject index]
    G067    List of persons whose arms were confiscated, Lancaster.  Sept. 17, 1776.
    G068    [Grubb pappers ][Not included in subject index]
    G069    [Same as G-25 and G-66]
    G070    Appendix to Confession of Faith, Phila.  1727.
    G071    Address of Quakers to Washington, and his reply, on religious toleration.  Oct. 1789.  (From Friends Intelligencer, 1854)
    G072    [Meeting for Lancaster Co., May 1775, to defend and protect the religious and civil rights of this and our sister colonies][Not included in subject index]

    G073    Edward Shippen Jr. June 5, 1776, mentions problems in political situation; written from Phila., possibly referring to Lancaster.
    G074    Undated petition of inhabitants to GeorgeII, setting forth their history and petition.  Signatures in German script.
    G075    Helmuth, a German pastor in Lancaster, to Prof. Freylinghuysen, says Quakers and Mennonites are drilling with the militia.  Aug. 1775
    G076    C. Schultz and J. Mack to 4 Towamencin  brethren desiring to form an independent company for defence.  (H. N. Krehbiel says this Mack was a Mennonite;  Peter Erb says he was Reformed.)
    G077    Sally Potts (Quaker) to sister, Feb. 9, 1764, on the Paxton affair;  Quakers who resorted to violence.
    G078    Israel Pemberton to John Pemberton Feb. 7, 1764 mentions the Lancaster affair and the Germantown conference.
    G079    Unidentified newsclipping on Edward Pennington and other Quakers bearing arms during the Paxton affair.
    G080    (James Pemberton) to (John Fotyergill) ca. 1765 discusses the rise of Presbyterianism in Pa., and the need for an Anglican Bishop
    G081    James Pemberton to John Fothergill Dec. 17, 1765, mentions influence of Schwenkfelders on politics.
    G082    (James Pemberton)  Oct. 11, 1764 reports on election issues, Paxton and Franklin.
    G083    James Pemberton Sept. 5, 1764, remarks on feelings against Quakers and Franklin.
    G084    James Pemberton to (?) mentions work against Benjamin Franklin in the election.
    G085    James Pemberton to J. Fothergill March 7, 1764.  An account of the late riots, religion on the frontier, itinerant preachers and limiting there number;  political plans;  Quaker behavior.
    G086    James Pemberton to John Fothergill June 13, 1764, on church-state affairs threatened by the "Presbyterian insurrection."  Very denunciatory toward Presbyterians.
    G087    John Nixon to Mr. West, Feb. 25, 1764, from Phila.  A full account of the affair from the killings to the rioters' return to Lancaster.
    G088    Lititz Diary mentions the taking of arms, and other ways the war impacted on the Moravian brotherhood.

Box 2 (Long Green)

2/1    Germantown documents  G89 - G153

    G089    [Document missing from files, but description included in the subject index].  John Wright to Provincial Council notes that Marylanders demanded the Dutch when they came.  Sept. 7, 1736.   Petition of inhabitants to West of Susquehanna, no names given.  Aug. 13, 1736.
    G090    John Hubley to Thomas Wharton, Lancaster July 1777, about the disturbing influence of the Test Oath, and its effect on otherwise "good disposed people."

    G091    William Lyon to Thomas Wharton Carlisle, July 7, 1777 about people refusing to take the oath.
    G092     Rd. McAlester to Thomas Wharton, Hanover July 4, 1777 expects trouble in imposing the oath in his county (York).
    G093    George Kribel declaration against arms-bearing and oath-taking.  July 18, 1777.
            Schwenkfelder, declaration on why his son would not take the oath and why he would not bear arms.
    G094    Resolves of Reading Non-Associators.
    G095    James kSmith of York to Congress about how to treat the conscientiously scrupulous "as those people equally scruple subscribing as bearing arms."  Aug. 1, 1775
    G096    Sept. 11, 1775 Reading Association of Non-Associators cover letter.
    G097    Thomas Wharton to William Henry July 31, 1777 disarm those who have not taken the oath.
    G098    John Bayley to Thomas Wharton, June 27, 1777 concerning the killing of a collector by (Sml. Albright ?) and the Mennists.
    G099    Orders to arrest specified Quakers and papers.  Aug. 31, 1777.
    G100    Sept. 10, 1777 resolution of Executive Council of Pennsylvania that no person should pass over the Schuylkill at Phila. Without having taken he oath, except persons coming to market.

    G101    Two ordinances:  Levying fines and more sub-lieutenants for Lancaster because of opposition to militia laws.  Oct. 25, 1777.  Council of Safety.
    G102    Nov. 8, 1777 Council of Safety Minutes, order to collect articles from non-oath takers;  list of men by county appointed to do so.
    G103    Nov. 26, 1777 Council of Safety, Phila, five men (Mennonite names) have not given their wagons over to the military.
    G104    House of Pa. To Lt. Gov. Thomas concerning the "knock-down" sailors riot 1742
             John Kinsey for Pennsylvania Assembly to Lt. Gov. George Thomas concerning election riot of 1742;  sailors rioting;  no mention of Mennonites or Dutch.  Nov. 5, 1742.
    G105    George Thomas.  Assembly of Pa.  Further proceedings in 1742 riot case.  Nov. 1742.  House minutes on the 1742 riot.
    G106    George Thomas, Act for Naturalizing foreign Protestants noy Quaker, who will not take oath, with comments.  Jan. 8, 1742/3.
    G107    Nov. 13, 1742 House consideration of bill for naturalizing Protestants who won't take oath;  question of specufying denomination.
    G108    Nov. 13, 1742 House consideration of bill for naturalizing Protestants who won't take oath;  question of specufying denominations.
    G109    German Protestants of Philadelphia to Gov. Morris 1754 declaring loyalty.
    G110    Phillip Marsteller to Joseph Reed on the scarcity of cattle.  N.d.  (June 1780)
    G111    Pa. Executive Council Minutes Sept. 25, 1788, various uses of militia fines.
    G112    Clandestine clothing store is being operated in Lancaster.  June 27, 1782.
    G113    John Musser arrested for operating said clothing store.  1782.

    G114    Archibald McClean to George Bryan, York 1777, the Germans of Hanover oppose the associators to the point of bloodshed.
    G115    Samuel Blunston to Penna.  Council, Aug. 24, 1736, address mentions role of Dutch in the border troubles.   Robert Morris to Phila. Quakers requesting aid to refugees from the south;  and their refusal.  1781.
    G116    Michael Tanner et al., to sherrif, Sept. 5, 1736 concerning an armed force proceeding against the settlers in the disputed area.  Account of Friends in Byberry during the war paying taxes voluntarily without electing a collector.
    G117    Samuel Smith to Thomas Cresap Sept. 16, 1735 Dutch settlement on disputed lands of Indians, including one Herr supplying them with food and provisions.   Mss. History of Columbia (also in Hazard's Register 1832) mentions Mennonite support
    G118    Derrick UpDeGraeff et. Al. To Samuel Smith, sherrif, Sept. 9, 1736, on the plundering of Dutch houses and Michael Tanner's successful negotiations.
    G119    James Logan to Lancaster Justices of the Peace concerning the Dutch people and the border dispute.  Sept. 3, 1736.
    G120    Minutes of Pa. Council Sept. 13, 1736 concern the Dutch people on the border.
    G121    Pa. Council proclamation Sept. 17, 1736 giving an account of the border disputes.
    G122    M. Tanner and Henry Hendricks to Pa. Council Sept. 13, 1736, on the Dutch position in the dispute.
    G123    Pa. Council Sept. 18, 1736 to Lt. Gov. Ogle of Maryland on the border idspute and the people involved therein.   List of Germans naturalized under new bill (?) for foreigners.  Sept. 29, 1709.  Many Mennonites.
    G124    Sept. 1709.  Committee deliberation on bill to naturalize Germans.
    G125    The Philadelphia Council consider the 1706 petition of Germans for naturalization.  1706.
    G126    Johannes Koster and 150 others, some Mennonite, petition for naturalization. 1706
    G127    May 14, 1706 Governor objects to the Province being defenseless just because many of its inhabitants are.
    G128    Request for naturalization from Germans in Lancaster reported by governor.  Jan. 16, 1729/30.
    G129    Feb. 15, 1717  Maryland is settling land near Conestogo, and disturbing the settlers there.
    G130    August 1717 Minutes of the Council on admitting inward bound vessels and the exact list of all their passengers. [Not included in subject index]
    G131    Sept. 22, 1717  Hans Herr, Hans Junk, and Martin Kundig petition to buy land around Pequea;  disabilities on them because they are foreigners.
    G132    Assembly investigation into the 1742 riot. 30 p.   Depositions taken by Assembly as evidence in 1742 riot.  References to the Dutch coming down to vote for candidates.
    G133    List of those killed up to 1757.
    G134    List of Schwenkfelder contributions;  1737-1758.

    G135    Christopher Schultz to Sebastian Levan, Assemblyman, Aug. 12, 1777 in protest of Test Act; mentions George Kreibel and other cases.
    G136    Schwenkfelder sermons, 1776-1777, react to the war and the army being in the vicinity.
    G137    Thomas Penn to Richard Peters, Oct. 9, 1745, concerns the proprietary concept of religious freedom, and the equivalency of all churches; issue of a church bell is raised.
    G138    Assembly of Pa. To Gov. Keith, June 2, 1726, concerning the governor's restoring Quakers to the Magistracy.
    G139    Keith to Assembly accounting for his favorable treatment of Quakers, and protesting their dissimulation. June 1726.
    G140    Proposals in Assembly, Oct. 6, 1682, that foreigners pay a fine to be naturalized, and be excluded from the privelige unless obtaining special permission.
    G141    Motion of petition of Palatines for naturalization and exemption from swearing and bearing arms.  1721
    G142    1725.  Petition of high and low Germans for naturalization.  First and second readings.
    G143    1725.  Petition of high and low Germans for naturalization.  First and second readings.
    G144    Oct. 15, 1717.  Governors message apprehensive of the increase of foreigners.
    G145    Oct. 6, 1750.  Provincial Council reports on the York sheriffs petition and exoneration in the 1750 York election riot.
    G146    1742.  Appointment of committee to naturalize Foreign Protestants who will not swear.
    G147    1742.  First, second and third readings, and passage of bill for naturalizing non-oath-taking Protestants.
    G148    1742.  First, second and third readings, and passage of bill for naturalizing non-oath-taking Protestants.
    G149    1742-3.  Petition from German non-oath-taking Protestants for naturalization.
    G150    1742/3.  Jan. 8, Governor's message concerning his disallowance of the bill for naturalizing foreign non-oath-taking Protestants;  refers to the dangers to society if passes in its general form.
    G151    1742/3.  Assembly consideration of the governors message on the naturalization bill.
    G152    1742/3.  Passage of the naturalization bill after the House groups it with other bills and will not pay the Governor until passage.
    G152    1742/3.  Passage of the naturalization bill after the House groups it with other bills and will not pay the Governor until passage.
    G153    [Act for naturalizing such foreign Protestants as are settled, or shall settle, within this Province, who, not being of the People called Quakers, do conscientiously refuse the Taking of any Oath, 1742-43.] [Not included in subject index]


2/2    Germantown documents  G154 - G194  

    G154    Petition from Philadelphia to Assembly about the 1742 election riot.
    G155    Assembly considerations on the riot, 1742.
    G156    Abstract of petitions on 1742 riot.
    G157    Governors message concerning the investigation of the riot of 1742.
    G158    The House places charges against certain men in riot of 1742.
    G159    Opinion on court jurisdiction in riot of 1742.
    G160    Remonstrance of the accused in the riot of 1742.
    G161    Remonstrance of the accused in the riot of 1742.
    G162    Response to the remonstrance of the accused, 1742 riot.
    G163    Resolutions in the riot of 1742.

    G164    Letter concerning an innkeeper named Musser on the Lancaster Road, with others, attacking a group of militia and taking them prisoner.  Nov. 11, 1775.
    G165    Unsigned petition from Bucks to the Committee of Safety protesting imprisonment of several men:  "If this is the Liberty you Contend for we are Determined to have none of it."
    G166    John Byers, Carlisle, March 29, 1776, for the County Committee, on difficulty of obtaining arms and the plans to purchase them from non-associators.
    G166a    John Byers, Carlisle (?), for Committee of Safety, March 29, 1776, concerning purchasing arms for non-associators.
    G167    Samuel Miles to Robert Morris, June 21, 1776 about disaffection to the cause of liberty.
    G168    York Committee to Philadelphia Committee about the refusal of the religiously scrupulous to pay as requested because of scruples about that also.  York, Sept. 14, 1775 (See # 34, this folder)
    G169    Henry Wynkoop, Bucks County, Sept. 25, 1775, to Daniel Roberdeau, about the extent of disaffection in Bucks County, religious and otherwise.
    G170-G194  Description of documents have not been included in Ulle's subject index.


2/3  Germantown documents G-195 - G-209

2/4  Germantown documents  G-210 - G-230

2/5  Germantown documents  G-231 - G-240

2/6  Germantown documents  G-241 - G-248

2/7  Germantown documents  G-249 - G-260

2/8  Germantown documents  G-261 - G-271

Box 3 (Long Green)

3/1         Colonial documents  G-241 - G-248

3/2         Colonial documents  G-290 - G-306

3/3         Documents from MacMaster: 1777 Schwenk-felder petition:  Ja 13, 1775 letter from William Reeser to Christopher Shultz and a October 1777 petition of the Schwenckfelders to theState of PA.

3/4       1978 Singing School, Frick's Meetinghouse


Description of Series 0 - 30 (Boxes 4-5 Long Green)

Box 4 (Long Green)

4/1    Series Descriptions

4/1A    Series 0  Unidentified

    0.1    German document

4/2    Series 1  Germantown Mennonite Congregation Membership lists

    1.1    1708 list
    1.2    1770-1775 list of additions
    1.3    Morgam Edwards 1708 list (1770)


4/3    Series 2  Germantown Mennonite Congregation Minutes

    2.1    1770 minutes on building a new meetinghouse
    2.2    1702 letter from European Mennonite ministers to Germantown
    2.3    1708 Germantown Mennonite letter to Hermanus SchynHolland
    2.4    1796 letter to Germantown from conference appointing ministers
    2.5    Isaac Kolb, July 14, 1792 on difficulties in the Germantown congregation.

    2.6    Henry Hunsicker Aug. 1, 1793, on difficulties in the Germantown congregation.
    2.7    Undated and unsigned account of difficulties in the Germantown congregation.
    2.8    Henry Hunsicker Jan. 11, 1792 on difficulties in the Germantown congregation.
    2.9    Jacob Knorr to Isaac Kulp, Feb. 27, 1792, on difficulties in Germantown.
    2.10    Isaac Kolb Oct. 3, 1792 on difficulties in the Germantown congregation.
    2.11    A. D. Kolb to (Germantown?) Jan. 26, 1795 concerning debts.
    2.12    Jacob Oberholzer to John Kolb in Germantown, Jan. 5, 1801, concerning aches and recipes for them.
    2.13    Jacob Oberholzer to Jacob Knorr concerning Flax seed order, Feb. 16, 1792.

4/4    Series 3  Germantown Mennonite Congregation - other records

    3.1    Gottsahalck history of Germantown Me-nonites to 1712.
    3.2    1702 letter from Holland to Claus Berends
    3.3    1708 letter from Germantown to Hermanus Schyn
    3.4    Jacob Krehbiel account, 1839, of colonial Germantown happenings
    3.5    1796 letter of preachers appointed to preach at Germantown by conference.
    3.6    Claypoole letters about emigration to Germantown on Concord, 1683.
    3.7    Account of early Germantown by S. M. Grubb (early twentieth century)
    3.8    Notations of fly leaf of 1565 Emden Bible.
    3.9    Letter fragment, 1761?  (missing - 3/16/06)

4/5    Series 4:  Colonial Germantown Accounts

    4.1    Notes on Anti-Slavery Protest and Friends Meeting in Dublin, 1848.
    4.2    William Kite on the Dublin Meeting and the Anti-Slavery Protest, 1882
    4.3    List of George Keith supporters, 1692.
    4.4    Dirck Sipman deed, 1689.
    4.5    Early Germantown lot owners (including 1712 deed signed by Jacob Gottschalk.)

    4.6    A True Account of what happened to Christopher Sower during the late war.
    4.7    C. Sauer to Gov. Dennie, March 15, 1755
    4.8    C. Sauer to Gov. Dennie, May 12, 1755.
    4.9    C. Sauer to Conrad Weiser, Sept. 6, 1755
    4.10    C. Sower III to Samuel Sower, Jan. 5, 1785 from London.

    4.11    Jacob Stoll, Conetocka, to Alexander Mack, Sept. 21, 1755.
    4.12    Sander Mack to Daniel Letterman, Maryland, n.d.
    4.13    Sander Mack to Lazaru Weidner, Dec. 1780.
    4.14    Documents in case of McGrady vs. Wright, 1836 (information on colonial events.)
    4.15    Henry Frey and John Jennet, transfer of land, 1692.

    4.16    Grubb account of colonial Germantown  (ca. 1920)
    4.17    Pastorius' books and manuscripts at his death.
    4.18    Claypoole letters on sailing of Mennonites, 1683.
    4.19    Germantown inhabitants petition for a new charter, n.d.  ca. 1725?
    4.20    Pastorius' school lists patrons and pupils, 1702 - 1708.

    4.21    Extract of will of William Streepers of Germantown, 1717
     4.22    Two documents re Jacob Funk concealing Henry Younngken's attainted property, 1779.
    4.23    1700-1701.  Law respecting fires and chimneys.
    4.24    1706 law respecting religious freedom in Pa.
    4.25    1692 marriage certificate of Henry Frey

    4.26    Forfeited estates in Germantown during Revolutionary period
    4.27    Books in Francis Daiel Pastorius library.
    4.28    Petition for a new Germantown charter ca. 1730.
    4.29    Subscribers and patrons to Patorius's school, 1702, 1706-8.
    4.30    Letters relating to the Settlement of Germantown, Sachse collector.

    4.31    Nov. 1701 petition for road to Phila. From Germantown.
    4.32    William and Claus Rittenhouse agreement with William Bradford on papermaking, 1697.
    4.33    Laws of Germantown, 1691-1707.
    4.34    Town officers of Germantown, 1691-1707.
    4.35    Francis D. Patorius, Joris Whitemuller, Jacob Telner, Cornelius Dom, Johannes and Samuel Pastorius, letters from early Germantown.
    4.36    Inventory of C. Sower's forfeited estate, 1778.
    4.37    Map of first settlers in Germantown.
    4.38    Francis D. Pastorius petition on taxes, 1700-01.
    4.39    Petition for naturalization of Johannes Koster and 150 others, 1706.
    4.40    Petition for naturalization of F. D. Pastorius and others, 1709.

    4.41    Letter of Wm Strepers of Germantown, Aug. 20, 1716.
    4.42    Letter of Wm Strepers of Germantown, Oct. 22, 1684.
    4.43    Letter of Wm Strepers of Germantown, Aug. 1685, 1688.
    4.44    Pennypacker genealogical data reference to 1747.
    4.45    Extracts of will of George Miller of Germantown, 1719.
    
    4.46    Extracts of will of Pastorius of Germantown, 1719.
    4.47    Extracts of will of John Krey of Germantown, 1720.
    4.48    Extracts of will of John Linderman of Roxburry, 1720.
    4.49    Extracts of will of Samuel Patorius of Germantown, 1722.
    4.50    Extracts of will of George Adam Kriegsheimer of Germantown, 1723.

    4.51    Extracts of will of John Farmer of Germantown, 1725.
    4.52    Extracts of will of Mary Margaret Zimmerman of Germantown, 1725.
    4.53    Extracts of will of Matthias Cunard of Germantown, 1726.
    4.54    Extracts of will of Lenart Strepers of Germantown, 1727.
    4.55    Extracts of will of Ludwig Sporegells of Philadelphia, 1729.

    4.56    Extract of will of Dennis Cunards of Germantown, 1729.
    4.57    Extract of will of Geo Gattshick of Germantown, 1730.
    4.58    Extracts of will of Christian Wrmer (?) of Germantown, 1731.
    4.59    Extracts of will of Henry Stratfelt of Germantown, 1732.
    4.60    Extract of will of John Charles Greiss of Germantown, 1732.
    
    4.61    Extract of will of George Jacobs of Toxburry of 1733.
    4.62    Land document for Dirck Sippman, 1689.
    4.63    Council at Stenton with Indians, 1736.
    4.64    Concord School Minutes.
    4.65    Extract of will, Paul Wolff of Germantown, 1708-09

    4.66    Extract of will, Lenart Arets of Germantown, 1714.
    4.67    Extract of will, Aret Klincken of Germantown, 1717.
    4.68    Extract of will, Paul Kastner of Germantown, 1717.
    4.69    Extract of will, Henry Tibben of Germantown, 1712-13.
    4.70    Naturalizations 3/7/1691-2.
    4.71    Sander Mack to Johannes Price  2-14-1776.
    4.72    D. Letterman to Sander Mack, Aug. 26, 1787.
    4.73    Johannes Baumann to Sander Mack, n.d.
    4.74    Germantown petition, 1782, for relief from war depredations.
    4.75    Germantown petition, 1785, for relief for having supplied army horses.
    
    4.76    List of settlers, 1683-1709, by Hull.
    4.77    Slaveowners, 1790.
    4.78    Notes on Battle of Germantown.
    4.79    Notes on Battle of Germantown.
    4.80    Notes on Battle of Germantown. (missing - 3/16/06)

    4.81    Notes on Battle of Germantown.
    4.82    Notes on Battle of Germantown.
    4.83    Notes on Battle of Germantown.
    4.84    Germantown tax excerpts, 1769.
    4.85    Germantown tax excerpts, 1774.
    
4/6    Series 5 Descriptions of Mennonites

    5.1    George Hantsch Diary, 1748.
    5.2    Aug. 25, 1749 account of robbery of Funk and Sauder near Germantown.
    5.3    Morgan Edwards.  Materials towards a history of American Baptists, 1770.
    5.4    Ephrata Chronicle account of printing of Martyrs Mirror (courtesy of Amos Hoover)

4/7    Series 6 Correspondence with Europe

    6.1    Peter Recher (non-Mennonite?) letter from Muddy Creek, 1751.
    6.2    Ziegler-Kolb-Funk letter, 1773. (letter from Franconia Mennonites to Europe)
    6.3    1745    letter to Dutch Mennonites.
    6.4    Correspondence of Henry Frey, 1681.
    6.5    Funk (?) letter, 1785.

    6.6    Jacob Maier letter (?) 1787
    6.7    Daniel Longenecker to C. Clotz, 1738.

    (missing from folder are 6.8 - 6.12,  March 16, 2006)

    6.8    July 31, 1807 letter concerning American affairs.
    6.9    Mellinger letter, ca. 1781, concerning American Mennonites.
    6.10    Letter of Jacob Gross in Pa., May 16, 1764.  
    6.11    Jacob Gross to Peter Weber, Dec. 15, 1768.  
    6.12    Jacob Gross to Peter Weber, July 1774.  


4/8    Series 7  New Amsterdam Mennonites

    7.1    1665 Assessment
    7.2    Laws regarding church attendance.
    7.3    Domine Megapolensis mentions Menonists, 1640's.
    7.4    Contract for Plockhoy's group to go to the Delaware.
    7.5    Court records concerning Peter Pietersen, Menist.

    7.6    1629 Charter on ministers of religion.
    7.7    State of New Netherland churches, 1657.
    7.8    Thomas Dongan on churches, 16__.
    7.9    New Netherlands in 1644.
    7.10    C. Van Tien Hoven, information on taking up land in New Netherland, 1650.

        (missing from folder, 7.11 - 7.18   Mar. 16, 2006)

    7.11    Classis of Amsetrdam Acts of Deputies, Jan. 1, 1654 on Mennonists.
    7.12    Letter of J. Heydamus, May 26, 1656 refers to Menonists.
    7.13    Petition of Megalopeniss and Drisius against Lutherans and Menonists, July 6, 1657.
    7.14    Drisius letter, Oct. 4, 1660, concerning Mononists baptism.
    7.15    May 30, 1661 concerning Menonist baptism.

    7.16    Drisius letter Dec. 5, 1661 on Menonist baptism.
    7.17    Drisius letter Aug. 5, 1664 on Menonist baptism and a Menonist going to Curacao.
    7.18    1736 Pres. Clarke of New York on settling Palatines.

4/9    Series 8  Somerset County

    8.1    List of early settlers.
    8.2    Notes on Christian Gnegy in Somerset Co., 1774 or 1767.

4/10    Series 9  European Background

    9.1    The op den Graeff family.
    9.2    Poems by Henry Kassel.
    9.3    (a-d) Poems by Yellis Kassel.
    9.4    To the Protestant Mennonites at Reijdt, 1694.
    9.5    Petition of Phila. Germans concerning conditions on ships, 1754

    9.6    Extracts from Penns Journal 1677 concerning Mennonites.
    9.7    Letter from Dutch to Swiss Mennonites, 1697. (missing - 3/16/06)
    9.8    Runckel letter July 23, 1711.
    9.9    March 1709 letter of Mennonite immigrants
    9.10    Johannes Roth documents (settler on Schuylkill)

4/11    Series 10  Northampton County, Pa.

    10.1    Land warrants.
    10.2    Applications for land in Belfast Township, 1794.
    10.3    Letter from Robert Hunter on Indian raids, 1756.
    10.4    Letter from Timothy Horsfield concerning Jacob Hochstetler, 1760.

4/12    Series 11  Mennonites and Politics

    11.1    A brief State of the province of Pa.  1755.
    11.2    Revolutionary War - Militia Appeals.
    11.3    Forfeited estate accounts, revolution.
11.4    Documents on Jacob Funk and Henry Youngken's forfeited estate, 1779-1781  (see also series 4)
    11.5    Documents on Earl Township Mennonites and Revolution, 1776.
    
    11.6    Debate in Council concerning oaths and affirmations, 1700-01.
    11.7    Petition to Supreme Executive Council of PA concerning Bucks County persons not in support of the cause.  N.d.
    11.8    Exoneration from militia fines, 1781, Jacob Landis and Elias Rosenberry.
    11.9    Exoneration from militia fines, 1785, Christian Clemmer.
    11.10    Exoneration from militia fines, 1785, Abraham Hunsberger.

    11.11    Exoneration from Militia fines, 1786, David Kolb.
    11.12    Exoneration from Militia fines, 1785, Friedrcih Funk
    11.13    Exoneration from Militia fines, 1781, Isaac Kolb
    11.14    Exoneration from Militia fines, 1782, Isaac Tyson.
    11.15    Exoneration from Militia fines, 1783, Joseph Luckens, Rynier Tyson, Charles Landis.

    11.16    Journal of James Burd, 1760, concerning wagons for the army.
    11.17    Bucks County exemptions from militia fines, 1776 - 1786.
    11.18    Montgomery County exemptions from Militia fine, 1776 - 1786.
11.19    Richard Tea, 1777, concerning political activity of Abraham Latscher, a Berks County Menonist.
    11.20    Isaac Norris II's copy of Menonite Confession of Faith, 1727, with notations.
    11.21    Petition of John Sensinig, debtor, ca. 1780 in Lancaster gaol.
    11.22    Account of report of Christian Musselman, ca. 1780.

Box 5 (Long Green)

5/1    Series 12  Family Accounts

    12.1    Price Family Memories.
    12.2    Memorandum in relation to the Freys family.
    12.3    Mayer Family Bible records, 1821 - 1862.
    12.4    Scholl Family Bible records, 1822 - 1900.
    12.5    Hiestand Family Bible records, 1798 - 1830.
    
    12.6    Genealogical notes, 1782 -
    12.7    Genealogical notes, 1759 - 1793.
    12.8    Unidentified German notes.
    12.9    Hans Stauffer records, 1710 - 1780.
    12.10    Burkholder family notes collected by C. H. Smith.

5/2    Series 13  Legal Documents

    13.1    John Frey of Towamencin concerning father's estate signed by Jacob Gottshalk and wife, 1757.
    13.2    Articles of agreement, Henry and Jacob Frey, 1732.
    13.3    Sept. 29, 1709, naturalization of Germans.  
    13.4    John Weldy, land question, 1762.
    13.5    Christian Hirschey, land question, 1733.

    13.6    Catharine, Schultz, deposition on Maryland land case, 1736.
    13.7    Minutes of 1736 in relation to Maryland boundary dispute.
    13.8    Letter of Samuel Blunston, 1736, Maryland boundary dispute.
    13.9    Mittimus for Michael Tanner, 1736, Maryland boundary dispute.
    13.10    John Ross deposition, 1736, Maryland boundary dispute.
    13.11    Deposition of M. Tanner, 1736, Maryland boundary dispute.
    13.12    Answer of Dutch to Gov. of Maryland, 1736, Maryland boundary dispute.

5/3    Series 14  Colonial membership, A - K, of Germantown Mennonite, Documents pertaining to individuals   (Names of Persons arranged alphabetically, and the file contains a sheet documenting sources for each individual)

    Aiken, W. Van
    Bebber, Isaac Jacobs van
    Bebber, Jacob Isaacs
    Beigman, Barbara (Granny)
    Berents, Claus

    Collections of the New York Genealogical & Biographical Society
    Bowman, Wynant (Wendell)
    Bowman, Wendell
    Cassell, Heinrich
    Cassell, Mrs. (wife of heinrich)
    
    Casselberg, Catherine
    Classen, Cornelius
    Claasen, Cornelius of Germantown
    Conners, Gertrude
    Connerts, Cevila
    Connerts, John
    Connerts, Peter
    Kunders, Dennis

    Funk, Abraham
    Funk, Anna
    Funk, Catharine
    Funk, Jacob
    Funk, Jacob

    Funk, Jacob
    A brief History of Bishop Henry Funck
    Funk, John
    Funk, Mary

    Genter, David
    Genter, Mary
    Gogges, John
    Gottshalk, Jacob
    Gottshalk, Jacob
    Grubb

    Godschalks, Emma
    Gottshalk, Jacob
    Gottshalk, Jacob
    Gottshalk, Jacob
    Gottshalk, Mrs.  (wife of Jacob)

    Heifler, Polly
    Heisler, Ann
    Hendrick, Mrs. (wife of William)
    Hendrick, William
    Haupt, Ann

    Huberts, Margaret
    Jansen, Claus
    Jansen, Claus
    Jansen, Claus
    Jansen, Conrad

    Jansen, Conrad
    Jansen, Mrs.  (wife of Conrad)
    Karsdrop, Harmon
    Karsdorp, Mrs.  (wife of Harmon)
    Keyser, Dirck sr.
    Keyser, Dirck
    Keyser, Derrick, jr.
    Kesser, Dirck
    
    Keyser, Elizabeth
    Keyser, Jacob, sr.
    Keyser, John
    Keyser, John
    Keyser, Mrs.  (wife of Jacob Keyser sr.)

    Keyser, Peter
    Keyser, Peter
    Keyser, Peter

    Klumpken, Paul
    Knorr, Hannah
    Knorr, Jacob
    Knorr, Jacob
    Knorr, Jacob
    Knorr, Susannah
    Kolb, Barbara

    Kolb, Henry
    Kolb, Isaac
    Kolb, Jacob
    Kolb, Johannes
    Kolb, Martin

    Kolb, Mrs.  (wife of Martin)
    Kolp, Abraham
    Kulp, Andrew
    Kolp, Barbara
    Kolp, Margaret
    
    Kray, Helen
    Kray, John
    Kuster, Arnold
    Kuster, Elizabeth
    Kuster, Hermanus

5/4    Series 14  Colonial membership, L - Z, of Germantown Mennonite, Documents pertaining to individuals   (Names of Persons arranged alphabetically, and the file contains a sheet documenting sources for each individual)

    Lensen, Jan (7 pages)
    Merewine, Andrew
    Merewine, Anna
    Neuss, Hans
    Neuss, John
    
    Neuss, John
    Nice, Susahhan  (Granny)
    Pastorius, Francis
    Penninghausen, Mary
    Revenstock, Anna

    Rife, Catharine
    Rife, John
    Rittenhouse, Mrs.  (wife of Wiliam)
    Rittenhouse, A.
    Rittenhouse, Abraham (4 pages)

    Rittenhouse, Anna
    Rittenhouse, J.
    Rittenhouse, Margaret  (wife of J.)
    Rittenhouse, Nicholas
    Rittenhouse, Claus  (8 pages)

    Rittenhouse, Nicholas sr.
    Rittenhouse, Peter
    Rittenhouse, Sarah  (wife of Nicholas)
    Rittenhouse, Susan  (wife of Peter)
    Rittenhouse, William

    Rittenhouse, Heinrich Nicholas (family) (10 pages)
    Schneider, Hannes
    Sellen, Handrick
    Sellen, Mary
    Seynour, Harmen

    Seynour, Mrs.  (wife of Harmen)
    Sheyber, Joseph
    Sintern, Isaac Van
    Van Sintern, Mrs.  (wife of Isaac)
    Sintern, Sarah Van

    Smith, Margaret
    Stoneburger, Mary
    Tunes, Abraham
    Tunes, Herman
    Tunes, Mary
    Tysen, Altien
    
    Tysen, Margaret
    Vossen, Arnold Van
    Vossen, Cecilia van
    Vossen, Mary Van
    Zeigler, Andrew
    Zimmerman, Christopher
   
5/5    Series 15  Montgomery County

    15.1    Taverners in Montgomery County, 1780's.
    15.2    Tax collectors in Montgomery County, late 1780's.
    15.3    Genealogical date on Heinrich Pannebaker.
    15.4    Genealogical data on Gabriel Shuler.
    15.5    Genealogical date on Peter Freed.

    15.6    Will of Henry Colb of Van Bebbers, 1730.
    15.7    Extracts of will of Claus Obliger, 1730.
    15.8    Genealogical data on Henry Funk ca. 1760.
    15.9    Baptists at Skippack visited by Quakers, 1721.
    15.10    Stauffer letter, Lancaster to Lower Salford, March 6, 1775.

    15.11    A. H. Cassel account of Gabriel Shuler.
    15.12    Methacton Mennonite Meeting deed.
    15.13    Will of Christopher Cock, 1771.
    15.14    Salford Store Ledger, 1766-80.
    15.15    Gabriel Shuler's will, 1779.

    15.16    David Longacre's will and inventory, 1776.
    15.17    James Steel to Henry Pannebaker on quit rents ca. 1733.
    15.18    James Steel to Michael Ziegler on quit rents, 1735 (?).
    15.19    Petition for relief from tax increase from Rockhill, 1780. (missing - 3/16/06)

5/6    Series 16  Franconia Mennonite Documents (see also letters in series 6)

    16.1    1770 sermon, collected by J. F.k Funk and ascribed by him to 1770.

5/7    Series 17  Bucks County

    17.1    Genealogical note on Haldemans, 1790.
    17.2    Notes on Line Lexington meeting, 1752.
    17.3    Excerpt from charter for New Britain Mennonite congregation, 1836.

5/8    Series 18  Lebanon County

    18.1    Land sale, John Burkholder to Ulrich Burkholder, 1785.

5/9    Series 19  Indian Relations

    19.1    Marie LeRoy account.
    19.2    Account of Perkiomen Valley Indians.

5/10    Series 20  North Carolina

    20.1    Act allowing for Mennonite affirmations, 1777.
    20.2    House minute concerning twofold tax on Menonists and others, 1783.
    20.3    House minute concerning taxation of Menonists and others, 1783.
    20.4    House minutes concerning a caveat for John Swink and other non-jurors including Mennonites.
    20.5    House minute on taxing Menonites, May 6, 1783.

    20.6    1777 Act giving affirmation of Allegiance for Mennonites and others.
    20.7    1777 Act exempting Mennonites & others from militia .
    20.8    1778 Act for raising troops, exempting Mennonites and others.
    20.9    1778  Militia Act, exempting Mennonites and others.
    20.10    1778  Act levying threefold taxes on Mennonists and others.

    20.11    1778  Act to prescribe the affirmation of allegiance.
    20.12    1779  Act levying additional tax on Menonists and others.
    20.13    1779  Act exempting Mennonites orphans and widows from threefold tax.
    20.14    1780  Tax levying additional tax on Menonists and others.
    20.15    1780 Act protecting land of Menonists and others.
    
    20.16    1780  Act imposing special taxation on non-jurors.
    20.17    1781  Act exempting Menonists and others from special militia tax.
    20.18    1781  Money act with threefold penalty on Menonists and others.
    20.19    1782  Act excempting Menonists and others from raising men for troops.
    20.20    1782  Money act levying special tax on Menonists and others.

    20.21    1781  Militia act exempting Menonists and others.
    20.22    1782  Concerning three fold tax on Menonists and others.
    20.23    1782  Money act giving three-told tax to Menonists and others.
    20.24    1782  Act reducing penalties on Menonists and others.
    20.25    1784  Affirmation of Allegiance Act.

    20.26    1784  Act (aletring) (?) affirmation of allegiance.
    20.27    1785  Militia Act exempting Menonists and others.
    20.28    1787  Militia Act exempting Menonists and others.
    20.29    1779  House minute concerning the affirmation.
    20.30    1778-9  House minute concerning affirmation.

    20.31    1779  House minute concerning a remonstrance from the Mennonists & others.
    20.32    Later 1779 house minute concerning a remonstrance from the Mennonists & others.
    20.33    1778  Act on procuring clothing from Menonists and others.
    20.34    1779  Act on procuring clothing from Menonists and others.
    20.35    House minute concerning those who affirm.

5/11    Series 21 Canada

    21.1    Sept. 4, 1801 letter from Bedminister Township to Upper Canada.  (Series 21-1 found in J.F. Funk Collection.  Bob Ulle will copy at a later date.)

5/12    Series 22 Lancaster County

    22.1    James Steel to M. Kindig and H. Heer on quit rents, 1732.
    22.2    James Steel to M. Milin and Chr. Heer on land, 1731.

5/13    Series 23  Nineteenth Century Germantown

    23.1    David Saur to Catharine Harley, 1821 ca.
    23.2    Samuel Saur to Catharine Harley, 1813.
    23.3     Samuel Harley to Christopher Zimmerman, 1800.
    23.4    John Price to William Thurman, 1868.

5/14    Series 24  Ephrata Brethren

    24.1    Petition of Christian Rohrbough in land case ca. 1780.

5/15    Series 25  York County

    25.1    Estate of Christian and maria Hoover of Hanover, 1771, 1777.

5/16    Series 26  Chester County, PA

    26.1    Charter for Union Meetinghouse excerpts, East Whiteland, 1821.

5/17    Series 27  Berks County

    27.1    Note on death of Franz Latschar of Colebrookdale, 1787.

5/18    Series 28   Wat of 1812

    28.1    Note on militia exemptions.

5/19    Series 29  Civil War

    29.1    Excerpts from Herald of Truth

5/20    Series 30  Virginia

    30.1     Account of Baptist church in VA.

Documents on a variety of Subjects

5/21    Material re:  Yellis Kassel, 17th century

5/22    1778:  McDowel to Bryan (Oath) (Missing, cannot identify)

5/23    1781:  Hieser to Gardner (Whig/Funck)

5/24    17th Century Dutch Colonial American    

5/25    Interview with John F. Funk, by Charles Rittenhouse, 1924

Box 6 (Long Green)

6/1    Woodson Papers, 1833-1926

6/2    Documents, 1789-1913

6/3    Document, 1886

6/4    Documents, 1816-1831

6/5    Blacks and Slavery, Documents, 1857-58

6/6    "Sketches of the Higher Classes of Colored Society," 1841

6/7    History of the Germantown Mennonite Church, 1683-1720

6/8    Francis Neff, in Germantown, 1719-1729, draft article by William Neff and John F. Murray, for Neff Newsletter


Name and Subject Tracing

Chronology, 1643-
Germantown Mennonite Church, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Ulle, Robert

 
Appendix

Subject Index to G Documents (Boxes 1 - 3 Long Green)
Includes annotated listing of documents #G001 - G169, as taken from Ulle's subject index.  Documents #G170 - G306 had not been listed individually or described.

Folder: Miscellaneous

0000    1. A few words about the Mennonites in America in 1841: Jacob Krehbiel document in MQR.
G137    2. Thomas Penn to Richard Peters, Oct. 9, 1745, concerns the proprietary concept of religious freedom, and the equivalency of all churches; issue of a church bell is raised.
G031    3. Historical Notes on Lancaster County, in Hazard's Register, 1830.  Notes on Presbyterian scruples on oath taking, Amish jurors; Paxton massacre, etc.
G029    4.  Redmond Conygh__(?).  History of the Mennonists and Aymenists, or Amish.  Hazard's Register, 1831.  Note Shem and David Zook letter;  biography of Emmanual Zimmerman;  petition.
G021    5.  Matthias Slough to Henry Bouquet, Lancaster Jan. 29, 1765.  A Mennonite wants to buy Colonel Bouquet's land.

Folder:  Penn and the Mennonites

G016    1.  Address by N. B. Grubb on William Penn and Mennonites.

Folder:  Political participation of Mennonites

G104    1.  John Kinsey for Pennsylvania Assembly to Lt. Gov. George thomas concerning election riot of 1742;  sailors rioting;  no mention of Mennonites or Dutch.  Nov. 5, 1742.
G105    2.  George Thomas.  Assembly of Pa.  Further proceedings in 1742 riot case.  Nov. 1742.
G106    3.  George Thomas to Asembly, in respect to bill allowing for naturalization of foreigners who refuse to take the oath.  Jan. 8, 1742/3.
G107    4.  Proceedings of House or Assembly, Nov. 11-13, 1742 regarding bill to naturalize foreigners who will not take oath.
G108    5.  Proceedings of House or Assembly, Nov. 11-13, 1742 regarding bill to naturalize foreigners who will not take oath.

Folder:  Arms Bearing.

G127    1.  May 14, 1706 Governor objects to the Province being defenseless just because many of its inhabitants are.

Folder:  Test Oaths, Naturalization, and Loyalty.

G007    1.  Governor's Observations to the Board concerning Mennonites and others taking oath of naturalization.  Sept. 1717.
G004    2.  Alexander McDowell to George Bryan June 1, 1778, opposition to test oath by Mennonites and Quakers, and the advantage to be gained by formularing a less stringent oath.
G090    3.  John Hubley to Thomas Wharton, Lancaster July 1777, about the disturbing influence of the Test Oath, and its effect on otherwise "good disposed people."
G091    4.  William Lyon to Thomas Wharton Carlisle, July 7, 1777 about people refusing to take the oath.
G092    5.  Rd. McAlester to Thomas Wharton, Hanover July 4, 1777 expects trouble in imposing the oath in his county (York).

G093    6.  George Kribel, July 18, 1777, Schwenkfelder, declaration on why his son would not take the oath and why he would not bear arms.
G097    7.  Thomas Wharton to William Henry July 31, 1777 order to disarm all who have not taken the oath.
G100    8.  Sept. 10, 1777 resolution of Executive Council of Pennsylvania that no person should pass over the Schuylkill at Phila. Without having taken he oath, except persons coming to market.
G102    9.  Nov. 8, 1777 Council of Safety Minutes, order to collect articles from non-oath takers;  list of men by county appointed to do so.
G106    10.  George Thomas, Act for Naturalizing foreign Protestants noy Quaker, who will not take oath, with comments.

G107    11.  Nov. 13, 1742 House consideration of bill for naturalizing Protestants who won't take oath;  question of specufying denomination.
G108    11a.  Nov. 13, 1742 House consideration of bill for naturalizing Protestants who won't take oath;  question of specufying denominations.
G123a    12.  List of Germans naturalized under new bill for foreigners.  Sept. 29, 1709.  Many Mennonites.
G124    13.  Sept. 1709.  Committee deliberation on bill to naturalize Germans.
G125    14.  The Phila. Council considers the 1706 petition of Germans for naturalization.
G126    15.  Johannes Koster and 150 others, some Mennonite, petition for naturalization.  1706

G128    16.  Request for naturalization from Germans in Lancaster reported by governor.  Jan. 16, 1729/30.
G131    17.  Sept. 22, 1717 Hans Herr, Hans Funk and Martin Kundig petition to buy land around Pequea;  disabilities on them because they are foreigners.

Folder:  Test Oaths, Naturalization, and Loyalty.

G007    1.  Governor's Observations to the Board concerning Mennonites and others taking oath of naturalization.  Sept. 1717.
G004    2.  Alexander McDowell to George Bryan June 1, 1778, about opposition to test oath by Mennonites and Quakers, and the advantage to be gained by formulating a less stringent oath.
G090    3.  John Hubley to Thomas Wharton, Lancaster July 1777, about the disturbing influence of the Test Oath, and its effect on otherwise "good disposed people"
G091    4.  William Lyon to Thomas Wharton Carlisle, July 7, 1777 about people refusing to take the oath.
G092    5.  Rd. McAlester to Thomas Wharton, Hanover July 4, 1777 expects trouble in imposing the oath in his county (York).
G093    6.  George Kribel, July 18, 1777, Schwenkfelder, declaration on why his son wouls not take the oath and why he would not bear arms.
G097    7.  Thomas Wharton to William Henry July 31, 1777 order to disarm all who have not taken the oath.
G100    8.  Sept. 10, 1777 resolution of Executive Council of Pennsylvania that no person should pass over the Schuylkill at Phila. Without having taken the oath, except persons coming to market.
G102    9.  Nov. 8, 1777 Council of Safety Minutes, order to collect articles from non-oath takers;  list of men by county appointed to do so.
G106    10.  George Thomas, Act for Naturalizing foreign Protestants noy Quaker, who will not take oath, with comments.
G107    11.  Nov. 13, 1742 House consideration of bill for naturalizing Protestants who won't take oath;  question of specufying denominations.
G108    11a Nov. 13, 1742 House consideration of bill for naturalizing Protestants who won't take oath;  question of specufying denominations.
G123    12.  List of Germans naturalized under new bill (?) for foreigners.  Sept. 29, 1709.  Many Mennonites.
G124    13.  Sept. 1709.  Committee liberation bill to naturalize ____(?)
G125    14.  The ___(?) Council consider the 1706 petition of Germans for naturalization.  1706
G126    15.  ___(?) Koster and 150 others, some Mennonite, petition for naturalization. 1706
G128    16.  Request for naturalization in Lancaster reported by governor.  Jan. 16, 1729/30
G131    17.  Sept. 22, 1717  Hans Herr, Hans Junk, and Martin Kundig petition to buy land around Pequea;  disabilities on them because they are foreigners.
G138    18.  Assembly of Pa. To Gov. Keith, June 2, 1726, concerning the governor's restoring Quakers to the Magistracy.
G139    19.  Keith to Assembly accounting for his favorable treatment of Quakers, and protesting their dissimulation. June 1726.
G140    20.  Proposals in Assembly, Oct. 6, 1682, that foreigners pay a fine to be naturalized, and be excluded from the privelige unless obtaining special permission.

G141    21.  Motion of petition of Palatines for naturalization and exemption from swearing and bearing arms.  1721
G142    22.  1725.  Petition of high and low Germans for naturalization.  First and second readings.
G143    22a  1725.  Petition of high and low Germans for naturalization.  First and second readings.
G144    23.  Oct. 15, 1717.  Governors message apprehensive of the increase of foreigners.
G146    24.  1742.  Appointment of committee to naturalize Foreign Protestants who will not swear.
G147    25.  1742.  First, second and third readings, and passage of bill for naturalizing non-oath-taking Protestants.
G148    25a. 1742.  First, second and third readings, and passage of bill for naturalizing non-oath-taking Protestants.
G149    26.  1742-3.  Petition from German non-oath-taking Protestants for naturalization.
G150    27.  1742/3.  Jan. 8, Governor's message concerning his disallowance of the bill for naturalizing foreign non-oath-taking Protestants;  refers to the dangers to society if passes in its general form.
G151    28.  1742/3.  Assembly consideration of the governors message on the naturalization bill.
G152    29.  1742/3.  Passage of the naturalization bill after the House groups it with other bills and will not pay the Governor until passage.
G152    29a  1742/3.  Passage of the naturalization bill after the House groups it with other bills and will not pay the Governor until passage.

Folder:  Maryland border dispute, Germans in.

G089    1.  John Wright to Provincial Council notes that Marylanders demanded the Dutch when they came.  Sept. 7, 1736.
G089    2.  Petition of inhabitants to West of Susquehanna, no names given.  Aug. 13, 1736.
G115    3.  Samuel Blunston to Penna.  Council, Aug. 24, 1736, address mentions role of Dutch in the border troubles.
G116    4.  Michael Tanner et al., to sherrif, Sept. 5, 1736 concerning an armed force proceeding against the settlers in the disputed area.
G117    5.  Samuel Smith to Thomas Cresap Sept. 16, 1735 Dutch settlement on disputed lands.
G118    6.  Derrick UpDeGraeff et. Al. To Samuel Smith, sherrif, Sept. 9, 1736, on the plundering of Dutch houses and Michael Tanner's successful negotiations.
G119    7.  James Logan to Lancaster Justices of the Peace concerning the Dutch people and the border dispute.  Sept. 3, 1736.
G120    8.  Minutes of Pa. Council Sept. 13, 1736 concern the Dutch people on the border.
G121    9.  Pa. Council proclamation Sept. 17, 1736 giving an account of the border disputes.
G122    10.  M. Tanner and Henry Hendricks to Pa. Council Sept. 13, 1736, on the Dutch position in the dispute.
G123    11.  Pa. Council Sept. 18, 1736 to Lt. Gov. Ogle of Maryland on the border idspute and the people involved therein.
G074    12.  Undated petition of inhabitants to GeorgeII, setting forth their history and petition.  Signatures in German script.

G129    13.  Feb. 15, 1717  Maryland is settling land near Conestogo, and disturbing the settlers there.

Folder:  Publications

G070    1.  Appendix to Confession of Faith, Phila.  1727.
G000    2.  Godschalk and Kolb, et al., to Holland concerning reprinting Martyr's Mirror in America.  Oct. 19, 1745.  MHB Oct. 1971 (?)

Folder:  Election riots

G104    1.  House of Pa. To Lt. Gov. Thomas concerning the "knock-down" sailors riot 1742
G105    2.  House minutes on the 1742 riot.
G132    3.  Assembly investigation into the 1742 riot. 30 p.
G145    4.  Oct. 6, 1750.  Provincial Council reports on the York sheriffs petition and exoneration in the 1750 York election riot.
G154    5.  Petition from Philadelphia to Assembly about the 1742 election riot.
G132    6.  Depositions taken by Assembly as evidence in 1742 riot.  References to the Dutch coming down to vote for candidates.
G155    7.  Assembly considerations on the riot, 1742.
G156    8.  Abstract of petitions on 1742 riot.
G157    9.  Governors message concerning the investigation of the riot of 1742.
G158    10.  The House places charges against certain men in riot of 1742.
G159    11.  Opinion on court jurisdiction in riot of 1742.
G160    12.  Remonstrance of the accused in the riot of 1742.
G161    12a. Remonstrance of the accused in the riot of 1742.
G162    13.  Response to the remonstrance of the accused, 1742 riot.
G163    14.  Resolutions in the riot of 1742.

Folder:  French and Indian War, Mennonites and army transports.

G017    1.  Edward Shippen to Henry Bouquet May 24, 1759 soliciting Menist support
G018    2.  Henry Bouqiet to Shippen May 25-26, 1759;  
G019    3.  Shippen to Bouquet, May 30, 1759 Trouble with greedy Menist waggon ers.
G020    4.  Shippen to Bouquet Aug. 17, 1759, Mennists reluctant to leave fields.

Folder:  French and Indian War:  Military participation

G076    1.  C. Schultz and J. Mack to 4 Towamencin  brethren desiring to form an independent company for defence.  (H. N. Krehbiel says this Mack was a Mennonite;  Peter Erb says he was Reformed.)


Folder:  French and Indian War:  Indian Captives etc.

G008    1.  Pemberton Memo:  Mennonists giving money to aid in releasse of captives.  7th mo., 6 day, 1760.
G000    2.  C. Z. Mast to H. S. Bender, talks about Amish in French and Indian War (Goshen Archives)
G133    3.  List of those killed up to 1757.

Folder:  French and Indian War:  Friendly Association.

G134    1.  List of Schwenkfelder contributions;  1737-1758.

Folder:  Paxton Massacre

G087    1.  John Nixon to Mr. West, Feb. 25, 1764, from Phila.  A full account of the affair from the killings to the rioters' return to Lancaster.
G086    2.  James Pemberton to John Fothergill June 13, 1764, on church-state affairs threatened by the "Presbyterian insurrection."  Very denunciatory toward Presbyterians.
G085    3.  James Pemberton to J. Fothergill March 7, 1764.  An account of the late riots, religion on the frontier, itinerant preachers and limiting there number;  political plans;  Quaker behavior.
G079    4.  Unidentified newsclipping on Edward Pennington and other Quakers bearing arms during the Paxton affair.
G078    5.  Israel Pemberton to John Pemberton Feb. 7, 1764 mentions the Lancaster affair and the Germantown conference.
G077    6.  Sally Potts (Quaker) to sister, Feb. 9, 1764, on the Paxton affair;  Quakers who resorted to violence.
G043    7.  Mss. Poem on Paxton, Presbyterian against Quaker…
G117    8.  Mss. History of Columbia (also in Hazard's Register 1832) mentions Mennonite support
        of Indians, including one Herr supplying them with food and provisions.

Folder:  Political Impact on Paxton and the French Indian War.

G109    1.  German Protestants of Philadelphia to Gov. Morris 1754 declaring loyalty.
G081    2.  James Pemberton to John Fothergill Dec. 17, 1765, mentions influence of Schwenkfelders on politics.
G084    3.  James Pemberton to (?) mentions work against Benjamin Franklin in the election.
G044    4.  Samuel Purviance to (?) Sept. 20, 1765, assures that action is being taken against the Quaker party;  uniting Germans, Baptists and Presbyterians against the Quakers;  opposition to Franklin;  Mennonite plans to oppose this alliance;  suggestions to keep Mennonites from voting.

G045    5.  Edward Shippen to Mr. Burd Lancaster Sept. 16, 1768;  Mennonite leaders have met and formed a ticket.
G042    6.  Joseph Shippen to James Burd Phila.  Oct. 6, 1764;  Political plans against the Quakers, and work done among the Germans by the son of a Quaker, who might be appointed sherrif.
G046    7.  William Atlee to James Burd Lancaster Sept. 20, 1768, on the forming of a ticket to defeat the Quakers.
G039    8.  William Bingham to John Gibsoh, Phila.  May 4, 1764, on Presbyterian-Quaker conflict in polities.
G041    9.  James Burd to (?) Lancaster Sept. 17, 1964, reports attempts to settle a ticket "according to the custom of this county."  Old ticket includes Emmanuel Carpenter;  Lutherans, Calvinists, and other Germans are for New Ticket.
G040    10.  Samuel Purviance jr. Phila. To James Burd, Sept. 10, 1764 about Quaker-Mennonite political alliance.
G038    11.  John Harris to James Burd, Paxton March 1, 1764 reports Quaker violense in the Paxton affair;  and likely political changes.
G083    12.  James Pemberton Sept. 5, 1764, remarks on feelings against Quakers and Franklin.
G082    13.  (James Pemberton)  Oct. 11, 1764 reports on election issues, Paxton and Franklin.
G080    14.  (James Pemberton) to (John Fotyergill) ca. 1765 discusses the rise of Presbyterianism in Pa., and the need for an Anglican Bishop

Folder:  Revolution, General

G037    1.  Correspondence of John Lacey, June 1777 to May 1778, during Washington's army stay in southeastern Pennsylvania, orders, popular reactions to the army, provisioning Philadelphia, etc.

Folder:  Revolution, Confiscation of arms.

G088    1.  Lititz Diary mentions the taking of arms, and other ways the war impacted on the Moravian brotherhood.
G065    2.  Pennsylvania ordinance for seizure of arms from non-associators.
G067    3.  List of persons whose arms were confiscated, Lancaster.  Sept. 17, 1776.
G097    4.  Thomas Wharton to William Henry July 31, 1777 disarm those who have not taken the oath.
G166    5.  John Byers, Carlisle (?), for Committee of Safety, March 29, 1776, concerning purchasing arms for non-associators.

Folder:  1775:  Preparing for Revolution.

000 #1 - 27, See MHB July 1974.  Documents found as #G009, G011 through G014, G024, G025, G047, G048; G050 through G064;  G066, G068, G069.

000    28. Lititz Morvaian Diary, 1775-1783.
G075    29.  Helmuth, a German pastor in Lancaster, to Prof. Freylinghuysen, says Quakers and Mennonites are drilling with the militia.  Aug. 1775
G096    30.  Sept. 11, 1775 Reading Association of Non-Associators cover letter.
G094    31.  Resolves of Reading Non-Associators.
G095    32.  James kSmith of York to Congress about how to treat the conscientiously scrupulous "as those people equally scruple subscribing as bearing arms."  Aug. 1, 1775
G164    33.  Letter concerning an innkeeper named Musser on the Lancaster Road, with others, attacking a group of militia and taking them prisoner.  Nov. 11, 1775.
G165    34.  Unsigned petition from Bucks to the Committee of Safety protesting imprisonment of several men:  "If this is the Liberty you Contend for we are Determined to have none of it."
G168    35.  York kCommittee to Philadelphia Committee about the refusal of the religiously scrupulous to pay as requested because of scruples about that also.  York, Sept. 14, 1775 (See # 34, this folder)
G169    36.  Henry Wynkoop, Bucks County, Sept. 25, 1775, to Daniel Roberdeau, about the extent of disaffection in Bucks County, religious and otherwise.

Folder:  Revolution and Militia Fines

G111    1.  Pa. Executive Council Minutes Sept. 25, 1788, various uses of militia fines.
G023    2.  Keyser family fines given.

Folder:  Revolution and Christopher Sower

G006    1.  A. Cassel's account of Sowers persecution and trip to Valley Forge under guard.  Ca. 1900.

Folder:  Lancaster-York and 1777 Discontent.

G001    1.  John Bayley to Thomas Wharton, June 27, 1777 concerning the killing of a collector by (Sml.Albright ?) and the Mennists.
G098    1a. John Bayley to Thomas Wharton, June 27, 1777 concerning the killing of a collector by (Sml. Albright ?) and the Mennists.
G035    2.  Bartram Galbraith to Pres. Wharton, June 27, 1777 another account of the Albright killing.
G036    3.  Thomas Wharton to Bayley, July 5, 1777, Further disposition of the Albright Affair.
G032    4.  Bartram Galbraith to Thomas Wharton, Donegal May 19, 1777, problems in forming battalions in Mennonite settlements.
G005    5.  Rd. McAlester to Thomas Wharton Hanover Nov. 12, 1777, difficulty in filling companies because of Quakers Menonists and Dunkers.

G034    6.  James Lang to Pennsylvania (?) Board, Lancaster June 22, 1777 says Mennonites are troublesome because they only sell for hard cash.
G033    7.  Bartram Galbraith to Thomas Wharton Phila June 2, 1777 on the difficulty in finding substitutes, and the marching of the religiously opposed to keep the militia from marching.
G101    8.  Two ordinances:  Levying fines and more sub-lieutenants for Lancaster because of opposition to militia laws.  Oct. 25, 1777.  Council of Safety.
G103    9.  Nov. 26, 1777 Council of Safety, Phila, five men (Mennonite names) have not given their wagons over to the military.
G114    10. Archibald McClean to George Bryan, York 1777, the Germans of Hanover oppose the associators to the point of bloodshed.

Folder:  Revolution and the Test Act.

G135    1.  Christopher Schultz to Sebastian Levan, Assemblyman, Aug. 12, 1777 in protest of Test Act; mentions George Kreibel and other cases.
G093    2.  George Kribel declaration against arms-bearing and oath-taking.  July 18, 1777.
G030    3.  Three letters from Bethlehem to Brother Graff, one mentions Mennonites in Sackona mistreated over not taking the oath.  Oct. 1, 1778.
G004    4.  Alex McDowell to George Bryan June 1, 1778 about opposition to Test Oath by Mennonites and Quakers, and the advantages to be had by formulating a less stringent oath.
G090    5.  John Hubley to Thomas Wharton Lancaster July 1777 about the disturbing influence of the test oath, its affect on otherwise "good disposed people."
G091    6.  William Lyon to Thomas Wharton, Carlisle, July 7, 1777 people refuse to take the oath.
G092    7.  Rd. McAlester to Thomas Wharton, Hanover, July 4, 1777 expects trouble in imposing the oath in his county.
G100    8.  Sept. 10, 1777 resolution, Execative Council, person passing over the Schuylkill into Philadelphia must be oath takers, unless going to market.
G102    9.  Nov. 8, 1777 Council of Safety, Phila. Order to collect articles for the military from non-oath-takers;  men appointed to do so by county.

Folder:  Revolution 1775

G136    1.  Schwenkfelder sermons, 1776-1777, react to the war and the army being in the vicinity.
G073    2.  Edward Shippen Jr. June 5, 1776, mentions problems in political situation; written from Phila., possibly referring to Lancaster.
G049    3.  E. Wickersham to Col. James Burd, Nov. 6, 1776 fears that Mennonites voted heavily and the convention is blown up.
G166    4.  John Byers, Carlisle, March 29, 1776, for the County Committee, on difficulty of obtaining arms and the plans to purchase them from non-associators.
G167    5.  Samuel Miles to Robert Morris, June 21, 1776 about disaffection to the cause of liberty.

Folder:  Philadelphia Quakers and 1777

G099    1.  Orders to arrest specified Quakers and papers.  Aug. 31, 1777.
G010    2.  Edward Burd to ?, Sept. 6, 1777;  letter shows the trauma of the arrests restrictions on liberty, etc.

Folder:  Quakers, Tories, and Loyalists

G071    1.  Address of Quakers to Washington, and his reply, on religious toleration.  Oct. 1789.  (From Friends Intelligencer, 1854)
G116a  2. Account of Friends in Byberry during the war paying taxes voluntarily without electing a collector.
G115a  3.  Robert Morris to Phila. Quakers requesting aid to refugees from the south;  and their refusal.  1781.
G112    4.  Clandestine clothing store is being operated in Lancaster.  June 27, 1782.
G113    5.  John Musser arrested for operating said clothing store.  1782.

Folder:  Revolution 1780.

G110    1.  Phillip Marsteller to Joseph Reed on the scarcity of cattle.  N.d.  (June 1780)
G003    2.  Phillip Marsteller June 16, 1780, says Mennonites are driving their cattle over the hills;  since they have so many, he advocates confiscation of them.

Folder:  Emigration to Canada

G111    1.  Supreme Executive Council of Pa.  Sept. 25, 1788 reports uses of militia fines.
G000    2.  Ontario Mennonite petition Feb. 11, 1865, refers to the emigration.  MHB Oct. 1962
 
 
September 7, 2006 / Posted by Dennis Stoesz, with financial support from Showalter Foundation
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