Samuel S. Purple's Books

In scarcely 200 pages, Professor Kuhns has surveyed the factors that compelled roughly 100,000 emigrants from the Palatinate, Wurtenberg, Zweibrucken, and other principalities in southern Germany to settle in Pennsylvania between 1683 and 1776 and establish a new way of life in their adopted homeland. Most of these immigrants were farmers, and their customs and manners are recounted in an examination of housing, provisions, agricultural methods, superstitions, and so forth. There is a chapter on language, literature, and education and a separate appendix on German family names. Perhaps the most informative chapter in the book covers the extraordinarily diverse religious life of these Protestant Germans, which, while dominated by the Lutheran and Reformed churches, also accommodated Moravians, Mennonites, Brethren, Dunkards, Seventh-Day Baptists, Schwenckfelders, and others.

Book's by Samuel S. Purple

Principles of Greek Etymology

Principles of Greek Etymology

New York Journal of Medicine

New York Journal of Medicine

Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York

Records of the Reformed Dutch Church in New Amsterdam and New York

Paxton's Botanical Directory

Paxton's Botanical Directory

Paxton's Botanical Dictionary

Paxton's Botanical Dictionary

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