Excerpt from History of Daniel's Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed Churches, Lincoln Co., N. C Dutch names constituting your Church rolls today. While many Of their descendants followed the course of empire when it took its westward sweep there has been no influx of new names. Fond Of home and its comforts these people have been slow to leave the place once pse cured as their own. I could mention many farms that have never passed out of the family, being still held by virtue of' the grant made in.c'olonial times. ...
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Excerpt from History of Daniel's Evangelical Lutheran and Reformed Churches, Lincoln Co., N. C Dutch names constituting your Church rolls today. While many Of their descendants followed the course of empire when it took its westward sweep there has been no influx of new names. Fond Of home and its comforts these people have been slow to leave the place once pse cured as their own. I could mention many farms that have never passed out of the family, being still held by virtue of' the grant made in.c'olonial times. These pio neers were indeed strangers in a strange land. They were in a new and untried climate, 'midst the savage Cherokees and the wild animals with no place for Shel ter or protection until the log cabin and rude fort were erected by their own industry. And whether at home or in the field the trusty rifle was always 1n reach ready for any sudden attack. You, indeed, dwell ln the land of your fathers? Many of you live on the old home stead and pluck the fruit from trees planted bya father's hand. The forests and fields m which you rambled in boyhood in search of the chestnut, muscadine. Wild grape and haw, and the streams in which you fished and bathed are now your own. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at ... This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.
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