Category: Notes
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Book Excerpts About the History of Joseph Leisey and His Family
Book Excerpts from “Denver 1900-2000” and “History of Bucher Thal and Denver” about the history of Joseph Leisey and his family. In November, 2008 Don Leisey purchased the following books from the Historical Society of Cocalico Valley in Ephrata, Pennsylvania: (1) DENVER 1900 – 2000: 100TH ANNIVERSARY, by Willis L. Shirk, Jr. (2) Journal of Continue reading
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Joseph Leisey and His Family
Bucherton, Plans For a Town As year after year, emigrants from the Rhineland came to Pennsylvania, Hans Bucher saw other settlers coming into the valley of his choice and Cocalico Township becoming the home of many, he conceived the idea of laying out a town. He swore out a warrant for about sixty acres of Continue reading
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Notes on Indentured Servitude
A History of The Amish by Steven M. Nolt, Good Books, 1992 p.64 “Some Amish families did purchase redemptioners, however. Redemptioners were skilled European immigrants who could not afford their own way to America, and so traveled to the New World in the hope that someone would pay their passage for them in return for Continue reading