Excerpt from The Pennsylvania-German, Vol. 10: January, 1909 The first Germans to locate in the Shenandoah Valley were Lutherans, Mennonites. And German Reformed. These sects. Especially the first, are still strongly represented. About the middle of the 18th century the Mora vians of Pennsylvania made a number of missionary journeys through the valley. And perhaps established a few settlements; but at present the sect is not represented. So far as is known to the writer. About the same time that the Moravians were in the Val ley. Some of the Ephrata Brethren, the mystical sect led off from the Dun kers by Conrad Beissel and 'others. 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.