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From: Emmert Bittinger <>
Subject: Re: BRETHREN-D Digest V98 #459
Date: Fri, 23 Oct 1998 15:28:58 -0400


Bob Johnson wrote:
>
> Hi,
> I am currently researching my Brethren (Dunkard) family in
> Pennsylvania, Washington County. Can someone tell me in which
> counties the Brethren tended to live circa 1790-1800-s in PA. I find
> a creek in Washington County named Dunkard Creek. Also am interested
> in Green County.
> Thank you.
> Annie P. Johnson
>
>

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REPLY FROM E BITTINGER:
The Brethren tended to live in the southern tier of counties in
Pennsylvania all the way from east to west. In addition, Bucks, Berks,
Dauphin, Lebanon, Cumberland, Juniata, and a few others.
Dunkard Creek in Washington County (there are two Dunkard Creeks
actually in that area), is named after an early settlement of Ephrata
Cloister Dunker people dated around 1750-55. They were massacered in the
French and Indian Wars, and their settlement was destroyed. Then around
the 1770s and later, Brethren families began to migrate into Somerset,
Fayette, Washington, and Green Counties and established churches there.
Emmert Bittinger

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