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Encouraged by William Penn’s offer of 5,000 acres of land in the colony
of Pennsylvania and the freedom to practice their religion, the first
Mennonites arrive in America aboard the Concord. They were among the
first Germans to settle in the American colonies.
The Mennonites, members of a Protestant sect founded by Menno Simons in
the 16th century, were widely persecuted in Europe. Seeking religious
freedom, Mennonite Francis Daniel Pastorious led a group from Krefeld,
Germany, to Pennsylvania in 1683 and founded Germantown, the pioneer
German settlement in America and now part of the city of Philadelphia.
Numerous other German groups followed, and by the American Revolution
there were 100,000 Germans in William Penn’s former colony, more than a
third of Pennsylvania’s total population at the time.
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