Excerpt from The Pennsylvania-German, Vol. 10: A Monthly Magazine of Biography, History, Genealogy, Folklore, Literature, Etc.; July-December 1909 Germany into the province of Penn sylvania began 'as early as 1681. From 1708130 1720, thousands of immigrants from the beautiful and fertile country. Of the Palatinate, the home of the Heidelberg Catechism, came to Penn sylvania as fugitives from political tyranny and religious persecution. Of these many found homes in what is now Northampton county but was then a part of'bucks county. Great, indeed, must have been their trials and hardships but their faith in God was still greater. Here they founded homes where they might rear their families in the faith and customs of their fathers, and worship God ac cording to the dictates of conscience without persecution from either King or Pope. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.