Richard Kerwin MacMaster - Land, piety, peoplehood: the establishment of Mennonite communities in America, 1683-1790
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The Establishment of Mennonite Communities in America 1683-1790
Richard K. MacMaster
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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data MacMaster, Richard K. (Richard Kerwin), 1935 Land, piety, peoplehood. (The Mennonite experience in America: v. 1 ) Bibliography: p. Includes index. 1. Mennonites-United States-History. 2. Mennonites Doctrines. 1. Title. II. Series. BX8116.M46 vol. 1 289.773 s [289.7'731 84-15790 ISBN 0-8361-1261-X (pbk.)
On the cover: The Conestoga wagon, with distinctive double ends and heavy wheels, originated before 1750 in Mennonite settlements in the Connestoga Valley of Lancaster County, Pa., and quickly became a common sight. (Jan Gleysteen collection)
Land, Piety, Peoplehood
Copyright 1985 by Herald Press, Scottdale, Pa. 15683 Published simultaneously in Canada by Herald Press, Kitchener, Ont. N2G 4M5 Library of Congress Catalog Card Number: 84-15790 International Standard Book Number: 0-8361-1261 -X Printed in the United States of America Design by David Hiebert
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FOR EVE
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Contents
Series Introduction
by Robert S. Kreider
9
Editor's Foreword
by Theron F. Schlabach
11
Author's Preface
15
1 Aliens in Ferment
19
2 Immigration: Motives and Mutual Aid
50
3 The Land Base of Community
79
4 Land and Community on the Frontiers
111
5 "Like Fish in Water"
138
6 The Inner Religious Life: Mennonites and Pietism
157
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7 Meetinghouse and Congregational Life
183
8 Paths to Renewal
206
9 Testing Modern Citizenship: Mennonites and Colonial Politics
229
10 A People Apart? Mennonites in the Revolution
249
Afterword Who Then Was This New-World Mennonite?
281
Key to Footnotes
288
Notes
289
Bibliographical Essay
315
Index
329
The Author
342
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Series Introduction
In 1683 when the story of the Mennonite experience in America began, there was no American nation. Mennonites, Amish, and other groups whose faiths descended from sixteenth-century Anabaptism dwelt then in many places: alpine communities in Switzerland, towns along the Rhine, the polders of Holland, Hutterian communities in Moravia, lands reclaimed along the Vistula. Other persons in 1683 whose descendants would later claim the name Mennonite lived in tribal villages in West Africa, on the estates of conquerors in Old Mexico, on the mesas of the Sangre de Cristo. In these three hundred years as America has become a pluralistic nation, the stories of these diverse peoples have converged to form the Mennonite experience in America.
Mennonites and their kinfolks, the Amish, came to the New World at different times, for different reasons, and spoke different languages and dialects. Many carried in their memories the pain of persecution. Their cultures and even their church patterns and practices were not one but many. Gradually, however, they discovered each other and sensed their kinship. Tentatively and cautiously they began to work together in common tasks and to share a common pilgrimage. Often they found each other in times of national crisis and war. Inescapably the Mennonite experience has been bound intimately with the encompassing life of this emerging nation.
As have many other American groups, Mennonites eventually began to ask who they were as a people. They searched for their "identity" and "mission." To this end they began to tell their stories, often in fragmented and provincial ways. More recently, however, they have become aware that these separate histories are one interwoven story, a story intricately bonded with national history. Among them have arisen historians, schooled in the scholarly disciplines, prepared to give an account of these people, recognizing not only achievements but also dilemmas and failures. They offer not so much a denominational history, from the records of conferences and institutions, as a history of a people in all its rich variety. For Mennonites history has always been a state-
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