He may have met some Mennonites when he visited the Quakers in Kriegsheim on 23 and 26 August , three years before he applied for the grant of Pennsylvania, but the tension between the Quakers and Mennonites there at that time renders this dubious. There is no trace of any correspondence between Penn and any Mennonites who lived in Germany or who came to America. In the pamphlets published by Penn and his agents on behalf of the colonization of Pennsylvania, not the slightest reference is ever made to Mennonites.
Penn's alleged invitation to Mennonites in Germany to come to Pennsylvania, personally or by publication, is purely legendary. The Mennonites and Quakers who came from the Lower Rhine area came to Germantown to escape oppressive persecution.
Those who came from the Palatinate and Switzerland to Germantown from on also came to find greater religious freedom and to take advantage of the economic opportunities which the rich colony afforded. Many others besides Mennonites and Quakers of course came to Germantown in Hull lists a total of immigrant persons excluding children with provenance as follows: Holland—63, Krefeld and Kaldekerk—96, Kriegsheim and neighborhood—41, other Germany—49, uncertain Holland or Germany —, other European countries—11, Great Britain— It is clear that the Mennonites were not more than 15 per cent of the Germantown population in , the Quakers possibly a somewhat larger proportion.
Germantown was a German settlement, but it was not essentially a Mennonite settlement; nor was it primarily a Krefeld settlement. The Mennonite settlement in Germantown never prospered greatly, apparently never exceeding baptized members in size. It was too much under the influence of the stronger Quakers and other environment and was not able to retain its own natural increase. Besides, the main stream of Mennonite immigrants from Germany and Switzerland, being farmers, passed it by for settlement on the land.
Apart from the conference held in the Mennonite meetinghouse here in , the first Mennonite conference in America, which adopted the Dordrecht Confession of Faith , nothing of significance happened in Germantown, and the settlement did not exercise any particular leadership among the Mennonites in the following years.
The up-country Franconia settlement and the inland Lancaster settlement, both rural and German, became the significant Mennonite centers in America.
Dutch language Germantown Mennonitism was only a small pocket, with the honor of having been the first settlement, with the first meetinghouse, first preacher and bishop, and first organized congregation. The tradition of connection with the Dutch Mennonites of the Lower Rhine and Holland was kept alive for several generations, and did serve the Franconia Mennonites in a minor way by giving them the Dordrecht Confession and the Martyrs' Mirror. For the history of the Germantown Mennonite congregation see that article.
Bender, Harold S. Cassel, Daniel Kolb. History of the Mennonites: historically and biographically arranged from the time of the Reformation, more particularly from the time of their emigration to America, containing sketches of the oldest meeting houses and prominent ministers ; also their confession of faith, adopted at Dortrecht, in Philadelphia: Daniel K.
Cassel, Germantown Mennonite Historic Trust. Accessed 18 October Hull, W. Swarthmore College, Nieper, Fr. Die ersten deutschen Auswanderer von Krefeld nach Pennsylvanien. Neukirchen, Pennypacker, Samuel W. For Mark Sellers, president of the Germantown Historical Society and Jim Foster, publisher of the Germantown Newspapers the liquidation is especially important, because it means Settlement and Emanuel Freeman will no longer be the go-to outlet in Germantown for politically directed funds.
Yurkey also questioned the motivations of Ackelsberg and Foster because they had each previously run for city council against his boss.
And he doubted the standing of Germantown Community Connection to speak for the community. Numerous ceremonies mark Veterans Day in Philadelphia, including a reminder of the cost of service at Community College of Philadelphia.
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The foreclosure will also cost the Redevelopment Authority dearly. The agency uses loan repayments to fund the construction of new affordable housing projects. Meanwhile, the taxpayer-funded subsidized housing that Settlement built in the '90s may not be salvageable after the years of neglect under Freeman's management. At a time when the city's low-income residents are desperate for decent housing, and the federal government is cutting back dramatically on grants, Philadelphia can ill afford the loss of inventory.
I couldn't reach Freeman for comment. His lawyer, Gary M. Perkiss, never returned my phone calls. As far I can tell, Freeman hasn't responded to a reporter's request for comment since the bankruptcy. If he had responded, I would have asked him how a salaried employee of a failed nonprofit — albeit a well-paid CEO — came to manage the large real estate portfolio.
The Redevelopment Authority confirmed that his name does not appear on any of the deeds, although his wife is listed as the president of one of the holding companies. Because the properties are deeded to a limited partnership and not to individuals, "it is difficult for us to understand who the exact owners are," said Ryan Harmon, the authority's in-house lawyer.
But according to Cuorato, Freeman "certainly acted like the owner" when he appeared at the authority's board meeting to plead for loan forgiveness. For 26 years, the year-old grandmother and foster mother has lived in an house renovated by Germantown Settlement. She used to drop off her rent at a nearby senior housing project, but that stopped after the building was shuttered this year by the holding company. When she informed Freeman that her roof needed repairs, he said it was her responsibility.
He saw the rain coming in," Scott said. That's another reason that foreclosing on the four holding companies isn't enough to close this sad chapter. Before another penny goes to undo Freeman's mess in Germantown, all of Philadelphia deserves full accounting of how this taxpayer-funded slumlord blighted Germantown.
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