Apart From the World: An account of the origins and destinies of various Swiss Mennonites who fled from their homelands in remote parts of Cantons Zürich, Aargau, and Bern ... 1 edition

Table of Contents

prologue:  The Early Days by Lake Zürich, 10,000 B.C.-1450 A.D. .. page 2
    chapter i:  Homeland of the Bachmans, Switzerland 1458-1743 .. page 22
chapter ii:  Bachmans in Exile, Along the Rhine 1537-1738 .. page 56
chapter iii:  Baughmans in the New World, Pennsylvania 1710-1760 .. page 76
chapter iv:  More Baughmans Along the Shenandoah, Virginia 1724-1820 .. page 98
chapter v:  Where Plain Folks Put Their Faith, 1778-1812 .. page 114
epilogue:  Voices from the West, 950 A.D.-1865 .. page 130
    Maps ..  page 168
Appendices A - H ..  page181
Swiss church registry of Bachmans; Zürich Song; Protestant Family Tree;
Bachmans Who Stayed in Europe;Saucon Meetinghouse Deed; Shenandoah Folk Tales;
Other Descendants; Baughman Historical Society Report
Additions and Corrections to Earlier Research ..  page 204
Bibliography and A Guide to Footnoted Sources .. page 212
Index ..  page 220

Illustrations

    Shenandoah Iron Trivet .. frontis
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Prehistoric Swiss Lives 2
Ancient Pottery by Lake Zürich 5
A Lakeshore Village 6
Spear & Axe from Richterswil 8
The Tree of Life 9
Funeral of a German Warrior 10
Rune Stone 10
Golden Ring 10
Alemmanic Priestesses 11
Swiss Gold Coins 12
The Order of St. John 13
Germanic Knights in the Crusade 14
Wädenswil Castle Diagrams 15
Battle of Sempach 17
Weapons of the Old Zürich Wars 18
The Farmers’ Months 19
Old Zürich by the Lake 20
Early Folk Art Motifs 21

c h a p t e r   o n e

The Area by Wädenswil 22
Bachman Coat of Arms (inset) 22
Natural Spa 22
Wood Worker 24
Bucolic Wädenswil 25
Wädenswil Tax Revolt of 1468 26
Swiss Council of War 27
Ulrich Zwingli 28
Battle of Marignano 28
Monks’ Revelry 29
Affectionate Couples 30
A Spoiled Child & Nahrung 33
Bladesmen of Thirty Years’ War 32
Balthasar Hubmeier 33
The Palatinate in Flames 34
A Peasant’s Manner of Dress 35
Menno Simons 36
Baptism 37
Earthy Delights at a Swiss Spa 38
The Blacksmith 39
Trimming the Tongue of Heresy 41
Arrests of Anabaptists in 1637 42
Wädenswil Church 44
Richterswil’s Church Registry 47
Attack on Fort Bellen 52
The Castle at Knonau 53
The Monastery at Einsiedeln 54
The Devil in the Reformation 55

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Driven Out of Canton Zürich 56
Aarau, Seat of Aargau 58
Markirch 61
Mennonite Dress in Alsace 62
Circle of Skulls 66
Hans Bachman’s signature 67
Executions at Alzey 68
Mass Hanging 69
Froschauer’s Bookplate 71
Taler Coin from Canton Zürich 72
The Oldest Mennonite Fraktur 73
Emigration Pamphlet 74

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British Sailing Ship 76
Refugee Tent Camp in London 78
Joh. Georg Bachman’s signature 79
Iron Furnace & Forge 82
Newcomer’s Rifle 84
Loyalty Petition of 1728 86
Johannes Bachman’s Signature 87
Trade with the Indians 88
Public Stockade 89
Early American Money 89
Cresap’s Fort 90
Fraktur from Conestoga Manor 91
Jacob Bachman’s Tombstone 93
Bethlehem’s First Log House 93
The Bachman’s Stone Barn 94
Georg Bachman’s Tombstone 95
Petition Signers of 1728 97

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Palatine Wagon Train 98
Start of the Old Indian Trail 101
Lord Fairfax 102
Fairfax’s Greenway Court 103
Hite & Fairfax Signatures 104
Building a Log House 105
Printing Tobacco on Money 107
Dellinger’s Floor Plan 108
The Dellinger Log House 109
Indian Attack on the Frontier 110
Frontier Rifleman 111
Erecting a Palisade 112
A Cabin’s Sleeping Loft 112
Early Outbuildings 113

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Bachman Bible Register 114
Courting Couples 119
Reading by Firelight 123
Stone Loop Holes 126
The Stone House 127

e  p  i  l  o  g  u  e

A Warrior’s Shell Gorget 130
The Great Sun 130
Cherokee Riverside Village 132
Patterns of Pottery Decoration 133
Mound Village in Georgia 133
Indians of Arkansas 135
Cherokee Chief John Ross 140
The Cherokee Phoenix 141
Cherokee Manner of Dress 142
Religious Revival 144
River Crossing 145
Lewis Lafayette Baughman’s
1867 Log House & Signature 147
Arkansas Land Rush 148
The Baughman School 149
Chief Red Cloud 150
Cheers for General Jackson 152
The Arkansas Traveler 157
Rebel Quilt from Arkansas 159
General Ben McCulloch 160
General Earl Van Dorn 161
Rebel Money 162
Rebels on the Mississippi 163

m   a   p   s

Prehistoric Central Europe 168
The Old Rhine 169
Richterswil & Wädenswil 170
The Swiss Plateau 171
The Kraichgau 172
Farms of Lancaster County 173
Saucon Township 174
The Shenandoah Valley 175
John Baughman’s Surveys 176
The Back Road 177
Crooked Creek Baughmans 178

The Bachman Coat of Arms
in the Manner of Dürer 180 Anghänsli Charms 197
An Eagle Claims a Deer 204
Major Baughman the Hermit 206
Book Burning 212