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- The Mennonite Colony That Made a Deal With a Diamond Company
As part of an agreement with a diamond mining company, they have cleared and cultivated nearly 2,000 acres, hoping to build a community that other Mennonites from the Americas can join The post The Mennonite Colony That Made a Deal With a Diamond Company appeared first on New York Times Share 196 Tweet 123 Share News
- Cottonwood County Minnesota Genealogy and History
The Mennonite colony near Mountain Lake set out a few thousand mulberry trees, by way of experiment, a few years ago, which have grown so luxuriantly they were encouraged to bring on some silk worms
- The Mennonite Colony That Made a Deal With a Diamond Company | Nathan . . .
The Mennonite Colony That Made a Deal With a Diamond Company By Nadia Shira Cohen and Alan Yuhas Eight families of Mennonites have moved from Mexico to Angola, in southern Africa, raising fears
- 5,000 Acres—Where Did It All Go? – A Pennsylvania Dutch Genealogy
A small group of Mennonites made a deal for land with William Penn He wrote to the Ambassador in the Netherlands in April 1710 telling him of a party coming to Holland in order to go to Pennsylvania 1
- MENNONITES AMONG EARLY SETTLERS – Daily Press
In the early 1900s, the Mennonite colony had its own telephone system, which delivered a special ring to the phones of colony residents at 8 a m on Sundays that signaled it was time to go to
- Coming to America | Barkeys in the United States
In 1619, after living in Holland for 12 years, these separatists sought out investors in England who would be willing to finance their journey to the New World The group made a deal with the Plymouth Company who promised to finance their trip to North America to establish a colony
- The Settlement of Germantown 1683-1719 and the beginning of Germantown . . .
Mennonites, and subsequently both Mennonite and Friends communities were persecuted, including the new Quakers of Crefeld In 1682, William Penn acquired the Proprietorship of Pennsylvania from the English crown in settlement of debts the crown owed his father Penn resolved to create a colony run by
- Holy Experiment - Herald Press
Holy Experiment: The Warwick River Mennonite Colony, 1897–1970 explores a critical period of church history through the story of the only Mennonite colony planted in the American South to survive this experiment and eventually thrive
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