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| MENNONITE: | A Swiss Protestant group formed in 1525 and migrated to America by way of Alsace, England and Russia. They primarily settled in Kansas, Pennsylvania and Minnesota. MORAV IAN: | The United Brethren is a Protestant group formed in Bohemia about 1415 and spread to Poland, Prussia, Germany and England. PALATINES: |
In 1688, Louis XIV of France began persecuting German Protestants from the west bank along the Rhine River. Queen Anne of England helped a group to come to America in 17108. More than 200 arrived in New York in 1710 and settled along the Hudson and Mohawk Rivers. QUAKER: | The Society of Friends was formed in England in 1648. Early restrictions brought them to New Jersey in 1675 and some 230 English Quakers founded Burlington, NJ in 1678. William Penn was granted the territory of Pennsylvania in 1681 and within two years there were about 3000 Quakers living there. SCOTS - IRISH: |
The descendants of the Presbyterian Scots that had been placed in the northern counties of Ireland by British rulers in the early part of the 11th Century. Most came to America from 1718 until the Revolution. They settled in Pennsylvania first then moved south and then westward to the frontier. WALLOON: |
From southern Belgium, the language of the Wallons is a French dialect. Cornelis May of Flanders, Holland and about 30 to 40 families came to America in 1624 and established Fort Orange. This town is now Albany, NY |
via Butler Co. Chapter of the OGS Newsletter. Vol XVI #1 1997
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