Metz History

Pennsylvania History

Many Mennonite and other Anabaptist families, including our own ancestors, sought freedom of religion in the Colony of Pennsylvania beginning in the 1600s. William Penn, himself a Quaker, had been persecuted in England for his religious beliefs to the extent he had been arrested several times as well as imprisoned. One time he was imprisoned in the tower of London. Because of his own experiences he was determined to create a land where freedom of religion and democracy were practiced. His original land grant included not only Pennsylvania, but parts of Delaware.

Lancaster County

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Swiss Mennonites
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