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From: "Emmert Bittinger" <>
Subject: RE: [BRE] Beaver Dam, Md and four other questions.
Date: Fri, 10 Aug 2001 13:45:24 -0400
In-Reply-To: <39.18ef8c31.28a54a97@aol.com>


Reply to question about support of widows and orphans. Early Brethren
supported the poor, widows, and orphans via offerings channeled through the
Deacons. Deacons collected and and dispersed these moneys according to
decision of church council and either assessed or asked for free offerings
(practice varied somewhat) Orphans, if not with their mother, were placed
within church families, often relative families. Poor received support as
needed through council action and serviced by the deacons. A significant
part of Brethren belief and practice was the "Community of Believers," which
meant they took care of their own. Amish groups still do this, and some Old
Mennonite groups also. Emmert Bittinger

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Subject: [BRE] Beaver Dam, Md and four other questions.


I am requesting historical information about the location and history of the
Beaver Dam church:
1.The location of Beaver Dam church?: Was the Beaver Dam Church located in
a settlement of the same name? Was it originally in PA or MD and/ or was it
in "the questionable border area" before settlement of the Mason- Dixon
Line?
2.What was the relationship of the German Baptists and the Scot-Irish
Presbyterians (Coventers) with whom they shared the frontier ca 1740-1800?
Would they have lived in the same settlement? Would they have shared
"church" space, worship areas such as creeks used for Baptisms? Knowing that
both groups were clannish; how did the "clans" communicate?
3. Also can someone help me to understand how the Brethren (German Baptists)
supported widows and their families ca 1830?
4.I also would like to know the history of the Starke County, Ohio
immigration from Lancaster County, Pa ca 1840-50.? What was the draw to this
new home ?
Are records of early immigrants there available?
5. Can someone explain the "Shunning" process ca 1830-1855 within the
Brethren. Would there have been shunning between the German Baptists and the
"New Light" Revivalists/ congregations of the western frontier?

Elizabeth Findley Fabritius

Surnames: Findley, Graham, Waldron, Slattery ,Crelly, Royer, Fretz,
Eby,Fabritius, Shea





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