"While Germans migrated to many areas of what are now the United States and Canada, this book focuses on the eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century Pennsylvania experience, most particularly those Pennsylvania German domestic furnishings, books, and manuscripts assembled by Henry Francis du Pont for several rooms in his home, Winterthur, in Delaware."--Introd.

"These pioneers began arriving in Ontario from Pennsylvania in 1786. The majority arrived between 1800 and 1810 and settled in three communities: Vineland/Jordan area of the Niagara Peninsula; Waterloo County; Southern York County (Markham, Scarborough, Vaughan, Whitchurch)." web site.

"This book was written by elementary students from the Conrad Weiser School District located in Western Berks County, Pennsylvania. The students would look out the window at school and see the South Mountain and the mountain pass or the gap in the mountain which inspired them to write about the history of the area in which they were growing up. Their teacher, John Zug, was the inspiration and provided guidance to direct these students to write about...

"Christopher Dock...taught at the Shippack and Salford Mennonite meetinghouse schools in a southeastern Pennsylvania area now known as Montgomery County. "As a mean of motivating his students to learn and encouraging them to assist one another, Dock created for them...small treasures known as 'fraktur'"--Introd., p. 13.

Fraktur are early decorated manuscripts made for German families in Pennsylvania and, to a lesser extent, in Maryland, Virginia, Ohio, etc. Most are birth and baptism certificates dating from about 1760 into this century. They were made prior to the time civil registrations were required.