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"Soon after 1702 the available land about Germantown had largely been taken up, which necessitated the establishing of a second Mennonite colony along Skippack Creek, a tribu tary of the Perkiomen, about 30 miles above German town...called Skippack...begun by a Germantown colonist and several of his fellow immigrants a little later, became the center of a flourishing colony of Palatine Mennonites."

— Jun 21, 2022 05:04PM

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Karena is on page 18 of 925

"...the first German colony in America was founded at Germantown in 1683.* The first settlers came from Crefeld and the surrounding regions along the lower Rhine near the Dutch border, and consisted of one Mennonite and twelve Mennonite-Quaker families, all with Dutch names."

— Jun 21, 2022 04:20PM

Karena is on page 14 of 925

A few pages on European religious history.

— Jun 21, 2022 03:45PM

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Starting again. I'm reading the first edition, found on Internet Archive. Quite a long set of introductory pages, by the way.

— Jun 20, 2022 11:04AM

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Internet Archive link: https://archive.org/details/trailofbl...

— Oct 20, 2021 03:15AM

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Deutsch is the German word for Germans...so, "Dutch" for non-German speakers.