Reference

o "Re: Declarations for Naturalization Signed by Mennonites of Chester Co., PA" (On file: Archives of Chester Co., PA, 1728 Apr 1). Also www.dgatx.com/family...pubs/1728/NP/hs.html (2010 Aug).

Notes

1. Barbara L. Weir and Laurie A. Rofini, "German Qualification for Naturalization in Pennsylvania, 1728" in The Pennsylvania Genealogical Magazine, trans. Marianne S. Wokeck, Vol. XXXVII, No. 4 (Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1992), p367-373.

2. Martin Meylin and Wendall Bowman, "Re: Request to the Chester County Court of Quarter Sessions that a group of Mennonites be allowed to apply for naturalization" (On file: Archives of Chester Co., PA, 1727/8 Feb 7). Also www.dgatx.com/family...pubs/1728/NP/hs.html.

3. Henry Pierce and George Aston, Justices of the Chester County Court of Quarter Sessions, "Re: Initiation of the naturalization process requested February 7 by Meylin and Bowman" (On file: Archives of Chester Co., PA, 1728). Also www.dgatx.com/family...pubs/1728/NP/hs.html.

4. "Declaration of Fidelity, Oath of Abjuration and Profession of Faith" (On file: Archives of Chester Co., PA, 1728 Apr 1). Also www.dgatx.com/family...pubs/1728/NP/hs.html (2010 Aug).

5. "Chester County Archives & Record Services," dsf.chesco.org/archi...iew.asp?a=3&Q=609990 (Chester Co., PA, 2010; accessed 2010 Jul 29).

6. John L. Ruth, The Earth Is the Lord's: A Narrative History of the Lancaster Mennonite Conference (Studies in Anabaptist and Mennonite History) (Scottsdale, PA: Herald Press, 2001 Dec).

7. R. Martin Keen, "Community and Material Culture Among Lancaster Mennonites: Hans Hess 1717 to 1733" in Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, Vol. XIII, No. 1 (Lancaster, PA: Lancaster Mennonite Historical Society, 1990 Jan), p2-25.