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Subject: Re: family ponne
Date: Wed, 27 Oct 1999 12:41:11 -0500


While researching another early Brethren today I came upon this reference
which I thought you would find interesting...In a History of the Coventry
Church.. (the second old congregation of the Church of the Brethren in
America) I found.. "At Schwarzenau in the Province of Witgenstein, the
first Brethren Church ever organized was started in 1708 with the following
eight constituent members: ... Alexander Bony of Basle,
Switzerland:....and Sisters Johanna Noetinger Bony....

As they increased in numbers, persecutions followed.. Some were driven
into Holland, some to Creyfelt; and the Mother Church at Schwarzenau moved
to Serustervin in Friesland; and in 1719 they emigrated in a body to
Pennsylvania and settled at Germantown.

Ferne Baldwin
Manchester College

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