To God Alone the Honor

The revised and expanded 3rd edition of this encyclopedic guide to the Lancaster County Mennonite pioneers has now been released in a magnificent hardbound volume. It documents the family relations of the Mennonite pioneers who settled in what is now Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, beginning with the first immigrants who arrived in 1710, and ending with the “Mennonists Swissers” refugees who arrived at Philadelphia in 1754 on the ship Pheonix. It covers 133 different Mennonite family surnames and incorporates the latest research. It includes biographical sketches, seven maps, an every-name index, and is richly illustrated with 235 color photos of fraktur, bookplates, family records in German script, and other memorabilia. Transcriptions and translations of ancient German  records and texts by Amos B. Hoover add significant value. The book also includes for the first time an annotated version of Moravian missionary Georg Hantsch’s diary of his journey to the homes of a number of Lancaster County Mennonites in 1748.