History of Northampton, Lehigh, Monroe, Carbon, and Schuylkill ...

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HISTOaV OF NOKTHAMP'J'ON COUNTY, 7
ofthesehadgoiL-fijst to Enc^land on the invitation oi
Queen Anne, at v/hose bounty, not a few were transported
to America. Hundreds of them wer& gratuitously
lurnished witli religious and useful books, before thendeparture,
by the Kead Anton Wilhelm Eoelim, Courtchaplam,
of St. James. Tlie principal book was Arudt'^i
Uahres Christeiubuni. Among these German emigrauf';
were Mennonites. Jjimkards, German llefornied, and
Lutherans. T'k u niiriber was so great, as to draw tlremarks
Irom Jin.-., hoyan,.secretary of the province ^I
Peim.sylrania, in 1717— • W'c have,'"' said he, ^' of Uur,
in u].(jn ns witlu-nr
X great unmlicr (,/ l\i,,,tin, :, pomcd
r any recommendation or notice, which gives the country
some uneasiness, for fn-eiLmens do not so well amon^-- ir.
as our own Engli.bli jt.-oplc."
In 1719, Jonathan J)jcl.io.s(m remarks,