Anabaptist History (Day 19) the Anabaptists Come to America — Dean Taylor

Anabaptist History (Day 19): The Anabaptists Come to America

All right, well, good morning everybody. Today what we're gonna try to do is to bring these all these different groups to America and talk a little bit about Each of these groups and each of the stresses and challenges that each of these groups had as they came to America.

Let's let's start with a word of prayer. If you could take it leave some prayer there. Amen. Amen. Thank you, brother. All right, come on in but Steve. Yeah, the point and even your prayer brought it brought in something.

Anabaptist Heritage and the Need to Learn from History

I wanted to say at the beginning The point that I would like you to be able to do and you don't have to but this is the way I look at it when I look at all these families that have Stood for the faith have tried to put it in practice in a sense of a people of brotherhood communities Mission and purpose and now I hope my dream is that somehow this world of these Anabaptist people has come alive to you, you know from everything from Switzerland to the Moravians up to the Strasbourg and up to the Holland and over to Russia and then from Russia with all the different mission things the Hutterites with all their mission things a Swiss Brethren coming up and now all of these people for the most part all of these people well, a lot of most of these people now start their immigration to America and In that each of them bring their strengths each of them bring some of their weaknesses that they developed and they come and now Here we are today a bit of a child of different parts of each of these people.

And as all of them have come to America They found that a bit. There's a lot of different challenges. What's your sense of a peoplehood? What's your sense of a community? What's your sense of brotherhood and how is that going to face itself into the the world of America and those sorts of things and My hope is this when I look at all these people in all these different groups.

I Take them their successes and their failures and I call them my own. You want to mean I when I look at some of the things that that the the Dutch splitting and in Holland I've I look at my own life and my own churches when I look at some of the Involvement that the and they got into politics there at the end and the Russian Mennonites.

I think okay well I see our people get challenged with it getting involved in politics when I see the difficult way of being able to maintain Community and mission I think well we we stress with that all today.

And so I look at their successes, but I also accept their failures. Somebody once said in our church once I was talking to brother. He said I think was at Landis I think he said only those churches that have no history.

Have no mistakes you know what I mean and. But you also don't anything to lean on to learn from and so I think it's good for us to Instead of seeing ourselves a day always continually reinventing the wheel and I see that as much from a lot of times from Your communities as well as from mine that I think if we can realize now that we have an incredible heritage to draw from.

We can learn from both the successes and the failures. So let's come to America. All right, the first Mennonites come to America if you look at your sheet I do have a few extras here for y 'all I'll see how far I'm gonna go come to America.

Oh real quick about how I'm gonna play on do the week. Do you have one yet? You have one? Let's try to think how that how do I touch the week? This is what my I'm gonna try to do. I'm gonna emphasize the word try.

I'm gonna try to bring talk about the different groups in America today. Tomorrow I'm gonna talk about the revivals in the Mennonite world in the Anabaptist world particularly in America in Canada and the influence of the revivals and some of the Some of the things that happened in result of the revivals.

I'm gonna hope to do that tomorrow. So tomorrow will be the the history of Anabaptist revivals in America. Wednesday I'm hoping to do missions in particular the the thrust of American missions with the Mennonites and the Amish and Particularly the beachy Amish and then go from there to talk about some of the stresses that also that has put on the church and challenges of today, too, and then on Thursday I hope to give some kind of a summary and then like Melvin layman said I guess then I'll have the altar call so Let's see how it goes.

Goes with that all right, so let's start with today with the Mennonites come to America the first Mennonites come to America in Pennsylvania as we I think of us know the William Penn had got a agreement to be able to to Form this land in Pennsylvania, and really I don't have time to give all that should be given to that.

But it really was an incredible thing that really hadn't happened in history a lot of times before. Where you had an area that was able to be purposely there for religious toleration and those sorts of things and William Penn Gave it a tremendous opportunity kind of like well I guess if there's anything before would have been closer to Moravia in earlier centuries.

But Pennsylvania was an incredible opportunity for the Anabaptists, and so they came and they came indeed Early on the 13 Dutch Mennonite families led the way on this is a good date to remember October 6 1683 and they arrived in Pennsylvania on the ship Concord.

I think that'd be good. You know we all know the Mayflower. We all know the Nina of the painting the Santa Maria. I think we should know the Concord. It's what brought the first Mennonites to here in America.

So they came to Concord and settled and became known in Germantown a small settlement about seven miles Northwest of seaport of Philadelphia, and if y 'all been to Germantown. They've got some of the oldest the oldest Mennonite Church there still and some of those things is some Probably a good place to visit at first these families met in private homes.

And they worshipped with Quaker families by 1690 the Mennonite families began worshipping separately and Dutch Mennonites continued arriving and then in 1707 The Palatine Mennonite Swiss German families followed Making the whole full of what Germantown is today, and then we get to the first ordination there was a Northern Germany and okay these people from Northern Germany and Holland and here's how the name Mennonites stuck.

You remember how everybody got kicked out of Bern and then everybody ended up? Up in Holland and from Holland the Dutch Mennonites were very generous and helping them Either find a place there or many times they paid for their their passage to America.

It was very nice. They did that and Because they were known to come from Holland so to speak. They were given the name Mennonites. And they kept that name and so that name stuck with them here in America and even some early documents you hear them being referred To that way and that's how it is the Swiss brethren.

Didn't you really use that term until now? The titles were either Swiss Brethren and Hutterite in those names got used down in the in the Switzerland area in the Moravian area, but Not so much this way and so the name Mennonite tended to stick then just that's what people called them.

In 1698 they chose a paper maker. By the name of William Rittenhouse as the first minister. I don't know if you need to know that but it's just interesting. That's his house still it's either there or it was recently not too long ago knocked away by some flood.

Or severely damaged if I think I remember reading it somewhere. I haven't seen the house, but there's a picture of of the house until recently still standing, but it may be I'm not sure. In 1708 four Cole brothers from the Palatinate arrived in Germantown.

These men were Swiss brethren. Around 1700 a new ruler in Palatinate began persecuting the brethren again. There are some of the ones that didn't make it all the way up to Holland. As they left Switzerland up the Rhine some of them came out to the Palatinate some different places all through Germany.

Forming little communities and areas and then when persecution would come again again. They found their way over to America as well. And these were some of the ones that started to building this. I mean he decided to go to Pennsylvania their fellow Anabaptist the Dutch Mennonites helped them with the passage money the English associated with the passage money.

The Swiss with their Dutch brethren and therefore they were called Mennonites. Nice. I mentioned that that's where the name got stuck. Instead inspired by the fertile land they sent a man by the name of Martin Kindig.

Back to the Palatinate to urge the brothers to come they said hey, this is great. We got religious freedom. The land is cheap. And it's incredibly fertile and the fact that they came into the Lancaster County area and all that surrounding area in the Germantown area.

They did pick one of the most fertile areas in America. And it became very successful to them early on one of the early names We hear particularly in Lancaster County is Hans hair. How many of you been to the Hans hair house?

No, I haven't. Oh you should go. It's right there. It's an old house. It's still there to the day a museum. And he was one of the early Mennonites that came at 72 years old he brought his family over and.

And his son was named Christian who actually is the man who built Hans hair house, so it should be actually probably called Christian hairs house, but nevertheless. It's a nice little place to visit out there.

And that was also showed one of the the original homes and the original settlements of the Mennonites that came to America. It says here it's been estimated that at least 3 ,000 Mennonites sold for the new world between the years 1707 and 1756 alone.

I mean this was a mass migration once the word got out once people started finding out About these things it became more and more it expanded as you saw I have down there the 1720s Virginia in the 1720s Maryland's by the 1750 Mifflin County other parts of Pennsylvania in the 1790s and so this was a quick a quick immigration when they found out.

How good things were here? All right, but here's something. I wanted to bring out this wasn't a Organized mass effort like perhaps it would have been amongst the Russian Mennonites and the Hutterites.

It was a little bit more this family that family they go this group goes that group that group goes and so when they got here to America the sense of a People a community was instantly stressed. They came for different reasons they came.

For religious freedom for the most part, but nevertheless it didn't have a sense of okay. We're going to go plant a Group in and in Lancaster County you know what I'm saying, so they had some stresses right from the beginning as early as 1663.

There were Mennonites that attempted to gather 25 families to live in a community along the Delaware Bay. Actually wanted to live in community along the Delaware Bay, but that had had quickly fallen. Fallen apart and didn't last there was an exception.

This was an exception to the rule and general Mennonites immigrate immigrated and settled in isolated homesteads. Apart from the ties of community and as John D Roth and his book the stories of Mennonites wrote he said this tended to lose their distinctive religious identity rather quickly.

And this had it affected the Mennonites in the east for years. And so just kind of have that thought in your mind. You know you're now a settler. You're a frontiersman with a strong faith a strong Anabaptist faith, but not so much.

Was it so clearly defined with a Swiss Brethren that they were a people here on a mission, but on October 19th? 1745. Pretty soon though they started to realize we need to do something and six Mennonite ministers from that German town area in Eastern Pennsylvania composed a letter Writing to the Dutch Mennonites, and I think this was this was a brilliant move.

And I and I wonder if this move did not have a reason why Conservative Mennonites are still alive in America. It's things like this was done and these brothers wrote a letter to the ministers quote to the ministers and elders of the non-resistant Mennonites Congregations of God in Amsterdam and Harlem and they were asking their Dutch cousins for assistance in translating the martyrs mirror into German.

John D. Roth in his book against stories says that at first glance this request seems rather odd. Why would a frontier congregation? meeting in log cabins at the edge of the wilderness go to the herculean effort and expense of translating and printing a 1 ,400 page tomb and Why choose a book focused so narrowly on the themes of persecution suffering and martyrdom after all such topics were hardly relevant.

For Mennonites in the new world who as the authors of these letters acknowledged were permitted to live unhampered and freedom of conscience and In peace and Liberty, why did they do that? Is the question What's that?

Yeah. Well the what they were translating in here was German. They did have. I think they had a German translation at this time already in and I do believe in Europe and now what they wanted to translate here was a German translation, but what they were sensing was a We've got to get a hold of us as a people.

And they're getting they're getting all kind of all kinds of people were coming to America. Not just the Mennonites and the Amish and and such but all kinds of people were coming. And so they realized we have to identify ourselves as a people and you remember the whole.

You remember when Tieleman van Brought wrote the martyrs mirror, and I don't know if I even specifically mentioned that I shouldn't just leave some things assumed. At the end of the lecture or the middle of the lecture.

Yes, Friday. We talked about that when all that Dutch liberalism and and Growing into materialism and all that began to happen to Holland it was Tieleman van Brought who then produced the martyrs mirror and Remember he was saying these times are much harder than the times of the martyr because these times are so easy and fat and.

And if it wasn't and if he wouldn't have Produced the martyrs mirror just even to you today. What would your thought of Dutch Mennonites be in all of this area era and a lot of times if you didn't have the martyrs?

Mirror it the the producing of literature like that is significant, and I just want to make a point at that. Do you remember even the Hutterite story that if they wouldn't have produced their literature?

That later revival wouldn't have happened. And I think the importance of ministers being able to see the importance of literature like this. I think shouldn't be overlooked. All right. So they wanted to produce this this martyrs mirror.

And they actually did it at the effort of cloister now. They had it printed at the effort of cloister right down the street from where I live and. So and in so the ministers though went on to explain the reason to these Dutch these Dutch ministers in Holland.

Their ambitious project was exactly the same put forth in. The forward of the preface of the martyrs mirrored by the books compiler Thieleman wrought and they quoted these times are certainly more dangerous in the times of our fathers in Particular they wrote now note this in particular.

They wrote quote the flames of war seemed to be mounting higher and higher. The minister is worried quote it therefore behooves us to make every preparation. For steadfast Endureth in our face endurance in our faith and I think that shows some great insight from the the Swiss brethren ministers of Realizing of the the threat that they were going to be under perfect examples the Moravians the Moravians were solid on the Zinzendorf.

Moravians were solid on non-resistance in the time of count Zinzendorf and the forming of Bethlehem her and hood and all the early missions, but the Reproach that the Moravians felt under the during the Revolutionary War had such an effect on them that by the 1800s many of the Moravians were already giving up non-resistance now.

They didn't have the heritage that the Anabaptists had to hold on to but nonetheless It just kind of shows you the the stresses and of the community and of the faith That was happening to them and how the early these early brothers were already recognizing some of the need for that.

Religious Freedom, Materialism, and the Mission of the Church

The early struggle with group identity. What did it mean? What did it mean to be? This this new Mennonite in this free land this new Swiss brethren in the free land and those things had its own its own stresses.

Roth has a good again state statement on here. I quote again. He says the Mennonites who migrated to America hoped to escape the religious intolerance. The political restrictions and the economic burdens of old-world feudal Europe and they largely succeeded yet they found that they could not finally escape the snares of quote the world as.

In Russia the Mennonites who immigrated to America were confronted with a beguiling paradox here. It was the very features of American life that most attracted them to the new world also pose a threat to their faith and Identity often in subtle ways.

How for example was the American? Celebration of rugged individualism to coexist with Mennonite virtues of humility and communal accountability. How could their America's new materialism and corporate nature of market market oriented? capitalism be integrated with the Mennonite values of simplicity and mutual aid and so these type of things that they Conflicted now how could there even be in this world?

They're used to feudal lords and and kings and things now be in an area of democracy and. So that the idea then is and this is that theme that's going to carry all through to today. And I think it's a theme that we suffer greatly.

Who are we. What does that mean and When everybody was against you killing you shooting you making laws against you it kind of. For whatever reason helps that understanding of that, but now in America the the the what is the mission of the church?

What is the purpose of our community? What are we doing? What are we accomplishing in this new world was something that the church had to early? Have to deal with and this is something I think we still to this day very much have to answer this question.

What is the community? What is the brotherhood? What is the church doing in this world in propagating and placing the kingdom of God here, so? The immigration goes on as as now America happens the Western it goes further west and further west and the Mennonites continue to grow in that area.

Towards the West further and further as as More lands are made the further the Mennonites. You'll find you'll see them going through there with the common Going west that happens there. There's different letters that were written back there they they talked about the religious freedom, and they also talked about quote the freedom to serve God according to our considerations of their conscience.

They said that the land is fruitful to overflowing for those who are willing to work. He continued in one letter written back to the Palatinate. We have no wound to we have no want of food or raiment and there are among us even people who are rich.

Interestingly enough so you begin to see already the the conflicts of all right. Well, what is it meaning today to be us? What is it? What are we saying here and? And so that's that was a stress. I think it still is a bit of a stress for for us today.

Because there was some interesting exceptions of the community-based immigration. I'm I'm giving this to you particularly because of one happened in burn, Indiana. Lucas there was a couple groups that left as an entire group a church and one in particular was a group.

That left from the Jura region of Switzerland that was if you look at Switzerland the mountains on the north. The Northwest region or the Jura mountains and a community here in total left and came to America and.

And it's interesting to watch how they continued their sense of mission a better than the different scattered ways that the that the church came. Another group was a Russian Mennonite group Alexandroville congregation in Malach the came entire community.

This was a huge task. Came over and came as a community and also was one of the better communities of maintaining their their identity. The one interestingly enough that ended up in burn, Indiana. That the Mennonite encyclopedia says that as late as 1950 this Mennonite Church the first Mennonite Church in burn, Indiana.

Where we're still speaking platte Deutsch and German and had three Sunday schools in in German even though they were speaking English in the congregation. They still they didn't they never practice foot washing just to show you how the Swiss Brethren difference didn't usually do that and they were they even had in the 1950s when the article was written would discipline people if they didn't live according to the Standards of the church and such and that was in burn, Indiana and just shows you a difference of a people that came connected.

Versus a people that came more scattered so I'm going to continue to develop the Mennonites as we go through as. They begin to to come further and further into America. They they didn't come into different stresses and we're going to talk about throughout the week.

What happens now with revivalism and and the thrust for missions and the different things and how the Mennonite Church affected that and so I'll be continue to carry that Mennonite Progress through the rest of this week.

Amish Immigration and the Cost of Religious Freedom

Let's talk about the Amish. Now again, how many of you I'm just curious in this room come from an Amish heritage. Okay. Okay everybody but me and Jake Jacob comes from Russian Mennonite. Oh your wife does too.

Okay. Yeah, that's true. Yeah. So it's it's I tried to focus a little bit more on that. So let's talk about a little bit of the Amish here. After several years of continued harassment and persecution the Amish family started to come to America.

Some came by way of Holland other straight from the Palatinate or the Alsace and they and these were sad times for most Most but they felt that best for the preservation of their faith again. You remember burn one of the biggest scenes again is a 1710 purge Where they were kicked out of burn, but also before that.

And even during that and after that you still would find scattered here in the walled hut. There's still a castle today that we can stay at once as a hotel where the Amish worked around here there's different places in Kaiserslautern and Tripsch dot around the Palatinate that the Amish were settling and these communities tried to make it until So much pressure would be on the feudal lords that they said get him out.

Some managed to stay in that Jura region in the Alsace all the way up to the time of Napoleon And having some restrictions of that but that continually made the flow of the Amish Start to come to America to this day for all practical purposes, there's there's no one left in Switzerland who would be of a Considered of an Amish faith.

I was just over there and Leroy Beach. He said there's few scattered you know communities that would have some kind of heritage to that but Most anyone has joined with the different Mennonite churches that are there and this was hard I mean when they made the choices to leave it was difficult very difficult and just just for beauty alone, I Mean it is a absolutely gorgeous spot to live.

I mean the farming was beautiful that the you know, it was beautiful and I have this poem that was written by an Amish men and it gives a little insight of They're both their faith and what they gave up to to come to Americans.

This is probably Affecting most every one of you and your heritage of your forefathers that came here. I'm gonna read you this poem. It's beautiful. The Amish men writes farewell you Alps. You beloved regions my native village in the quiet valley.

You beloved fields another will tell you Oh House of my youth no more. Will I see you God keep you farewell for the last time. Behold the snow-covered ash to a rocky Giants bathed in the Sun's first light.

How friendly they send their greetings the lofty young frow Iger Munich. Those are the different peaks. Actually, those are right there the different peaks he's talking about. The great they greet me for the last last time.

Farewell, you valley with your walls of stone who reached for the heavens. Severe and bleak sending their streams down from on high that they that they land in the depth in a spray of mist. Also you I have seen for the last last time.

Not few are my tears for you today you forest in Wreathed lakes and shiniest steel as shiny as steel. Where with songs of joy we sent ripples over its surface in light canoes like the swans I rode on you for the last last time on the high meadows I saw springing with glee a great herd of well-fed cattle.

Do you hear the Alp horns ringing echoes? Do you hear the cow herds lustly yodeling? I heard them too for the last last time. Oh house of my youth my dearly beloved rooms where I experienced life's joys and sorrows.

Farewell. Farewell in the shadow of your trees. My heart will break if I tarry any longer. Oh farewell for the last last time one more glimpsed of my parents graves under the freshly bedecked death marker where I Persecuted so often came to pray.

Sorrowfully I now grasp the pilgrim staff and greet you for the last last time and you Who persecuted me with fury and rage and this I commend you unto the grace of God. Do you think I would allow myself to be robbed of my precious faith in my Lord and Savior?

Also you all farewell for the last last time take all away. Only leave me my Savior. The earthly things are all empty in vain and Destitution. I am more blessed than before and their flood if their floods roar.

I am on a secure island so blessed. I feel for the last so blessed. I feel for the first time so farewell you all I must now depart. Farewell, I have no other choice. The Lord is my shepherd and green pastures.

He will feed me. He brings me at last through through suffering into his feast. Amen, it's beautiful, isn't it? And so with that kind of concept they It was a heart tug to leave this area, but it was necessary and they felt that that coming to America would give their Heritage a better chance of serving God than than what they had there.

So I thought that was a touching poem. That ship what do you think it was like so you finally decide you either made it up to burn or I mean you made it up to Holland from burn and the Dutch helps you out or there was some stories where You know The one brother would go and work there and send money back to the rest of the family so that he could go and a lot Of sacrifice was given to get the whole family over to America.

But what do you think it was like? What was the boat ride like it's hard. Was it easy? I mean even the stories you hear about Columbus, you know, you don't hear like a terrible tragedies. And I mean, yeah, you do hear some tragedies, but it what was it?

Like what was it? Like here's a letter written or a diary written on the boat ride about this one of the sad journeys. Coming over here it is. Just listen to how they explain the events throughout the the Month for months or so.

It took them to get over the 28th of June while in Rotterdam getting ready to start my Bribly died and was buried in Rotten Rotterdam a child I assume the 29th. We got under the sail and enjoyed only one half a day days of Favorable win.

The 7th of July early in the morning died Hans Zimmerman son-in-law. He's just little words in the diary. We landed in England on the 8th of July remaining nine days in port during which five children died.

Went under sail the 17th of July. 21st of July my own Lisbeth Lee died several years before Michael several excuse me several days before Michael George Lee's had died on the 29th of July three children died on the 1st of August my Hans Lee died and Tuesday previous five children died on the 3rd of August contrary winds beset the vessel and from the 1st to the 7th of the month three more children died on the 19th.

Christian Berkley's child died. Passed a ship on the 21st. He just mentions a favorable wind sprang up on the 28th. Hans Gold's wife died past the ship 13th of September landed in Philadelphia on the 18th.

And my wife and I left the ship on the 19th. A child was born to us on the 20th. But it died my wife recovered. The voyage was 83 days. Wow you see how barely you're even here. I Mean seriously I mean I Mean wow.

I mean those were impressive Hardships. Now one of the things that were problem was with all these immigrants going. A lot of the captains made heyday pardon expression out of Out of bringing these people into their ships and over packing them and actually in a legal way.

Here it says the immigrants. Anxiety about getting on their way and the opportunity this offered the greedy captains to increase their profits led to a serious Overcrowding of the passenger ships that had sailed in third to 1738 with a with the result that an estimated 1600 to 2000 passengers were in the many already sick before they had left in route.

And here's a particularly some of the worst among the most seriously overcrowded ships was a ship by the name of charming Nancy. Some of you may have come over your heritage on the charming charming Nancy.

A lot of them who came up to North ended up In North kill did come from the charming Nancy. And they had three hundred and twelve freight, so not only would they put the people in there of course these captains would make money.

By how much you know shipping freights you would get on there. So they would cram this stuff as much as they could and on this particular journey at least 33. More than the captain's tenement had packed in the ship the previous year he crammed people in and that creates in.

Arriving in Philadelphia on the 9th of November only 65 males 16 over were left to register. Sorry about the picture messed up there allowing the normal ratio of women to men. It's estimated that half of the entire crew died.

And it was also mentioned that they had a some sort of sickness some sort of sickness on that ship. The year before and they're wondering if just some of the diseases of that was still there. And so I mean the carnage of that the year before he lost one in nine on that same ship.

So it was coming to America was no light. Hey, let's go to America and start a new life. Just the journey itself was a huge. Huge risk as you went there. Travel just a little bit more, and then we'll take a break.

Faithfulness Under Persecution and Nonresistance

Faith during these trials and the earlier attempt to migrate or one of the an impressive events how many of you have ever heard the Story of the Zinzendorf Moravians when they were traveling to America and John Wesley was on the boat.

Maybe we all heard that story. Yeah, you haven't it's a good story. Well. They almost have a story. That's similar to that. It's interesting in 1710 a Swiss official traveling to the Carolinas with several Amish families to start a colony.

He would he gathered him up to try to start a colony on the trip however. They discovered that they were being followed by a pirate ship now. This was just a cargo ship you know and so everybody got quickly very upset.

You know we don't have cannons. We don't have a bunch of thing we're gonna. We're all gonna die and so they ended up to get into a panic and people were starting to get scared. But then as everybody started to get anxious they realized on the deck of the ship.

Gathered a little group of Amish families. And they began to sing and they were singing from the Osborne which the Osborne I'll say it here of course is the y 'all probably know this it's it's the first.

It was a Swiss brother in song book. I wish I had a whole day to spend on the Isles Boone and it's filled with the stories of the martyrs and a lot of the histories that we have were letters that were taken from the castles and martyrs and turn into song and put into the Isles Boone and they were singing from the Isles Boone and they were singing this song in Deep distress.

I call on you oh God hear my cry do any of y 'all recognize that from the German in the Isles Boone. Was that which one is that. Yeah, I'd see for no actually yeah, maybe you can sing it for us Lucas.

Okay, Oh God hear my cry and it was very pertinent to their to their situation your Holy Spirit. Send to me help us in our deep need as you have done to other Christians. We trust in your intercession the heathen are out to kill us.

And they were singing that song and it was true the pirates were coming somebody it's recorded said who are they. Who are these people. What manner of man are these. Was the quote another answered quote these are Anabaptists from the burn area which had?

Migrated into the Palatinate and because they were persecuted there as well. What had gone on to England and that was the journey from? Platinum burn Palatinate Holland England America for many of them that was the case with these people and and so they were impressed with the piety the the holiness of these of these Amish singing on the deck there interestingly the the the captain then tried a little trick.

He was an English ship and someone said hey Why don't you raise lower the the English flag and raise a French flag? Said you can't do that. That's like. I mean it's against all naval honors. And you I mean it'd just be terrible to do that.

He'd be shot if he got back and somebody found out I mean be terrible, but finally he said okay. And he took it put the French flag up and the story goes that the the pirate ship sailed away and left.

It was it because of the flag was because the intercession of the Amish you be the judge, but it's an interesting story that colony actually. Unfortunately as they came to America were later wiped out by an Indian raids.

You can find that story in uncer light. By Leroy Beachy. Okay, let's take a quick break. And then we'll come back and start talking about the settlements and the Amish when they came to Pennsylvania and the North kill and that type of thing take a quick break.

Okay. Welcome back so interesting looking at some of the Challenges challenges are not over the some of the Amish after they survived through the the Boat the charming Nancy they a lot of them settled around the North kill area which is North of Lancaster County a bit and they started a little community there now interestingly enough.

It is I see within the Amish, and I just wonder this I don't want to make too big of a statement on this. But it seems that you see them a little bit more in a more clearly defined Community area like the North kill sections around the Ohio sections and that type of thing.