ISBN: 9781235947858

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 178 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.4in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Pur… More...

RareBooksClub. Paperback. New. This item is printed on demand. Paperback. 178 pages. Dimensions: 9.7in. x 7.4in. x 0.4in.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1903 Excerpt: . . . There is a white kind of muskatel. and a little black grape--the chicken grape no doubt--like the cluster grape of England. Again, he says: There grow wild an incredible number of vines, that tho savage, and so not so excellent, beside that much wood and shade sour them, they yield a pleasant grape, and I have drank a good clarett, though small and greenish, of Capt. Rappes vintage of the savage grape. More important, however, than the little party of Frenchmen, were the colonists that came this year, 1683, from Wales and from Germany. A few Welsh had arrived even before Penn, as we have seen, including the company in the Lion, in August, 1682, and some had come in the Welcome with him. This year others arrived, and the Welsh Tract west of Philadelphia, including the townships of Merion, Haverford. Radnor, and others, began to be compactly occupied by industrious settlers. Persecution on account of their religious opinions had moved many of the newcomers, but they felt, besides, the hope of bettering their condition in a new land, under liberal and just laws. The Nicholas Louis Zinzendorf Count; bishop; missionary; gave name of Bethlehem to Moravian tract on the Lehigh river; traveled extensively in Pennsylvania doing missionary work, 1742 Welsh who now came were mostly Friends, upon whom the English laws of conformity still bore heavily. In Germany the patient and non-resistant followers of Menno Simon, the Mennonites, who now for two centuries have been an important element in Pennsylvanias population, had suffered untold miseries for a century and a half before the American door of release opened to them. So, too, up the Rhine, in the Palatinate, the desolations of the Thirty Year. . . This item ships from La Vergne,TN., RareBooksClub<