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"Confession oder kurzer und einfaeltiger Glaubens-Bericht";added by hand: "von Hans von Stein 1768".

Photocopy of a notebook - Johann Janzen, Reinland

Family Tree Jakob K. Friesen and Katharina Schierling. Photocopy of original book

Confession of Faith of the Mennonite in Prussia (Glaubensbekenntniß der Mennoniten in Preußen). Elbing, 1836, written by 5 elders of the Mennonite Church in Prussia.

"Eine Einfache Erklarung ueber einige Glaubensatze der sogenannte Kleinen Gemeine" ("A simple explanation about some tenet of so-called small congregation") 1901. Explanation of leaving the big church, discipline, relationship to government, attending we

December 31. Photocopy of handwritten, German original. (27 pages)

H. R. Reimer Family Records (1847 - 1933). Author and date unknown.

Excerpts or clippings from the Unterhaltungblatt about the Molotschna Colony from the 1850s.

Bergthal Census, 1850 and 1858 for the villages of Heuboden and Friedrichstal. Russian Cyrillic and English translation.

"Kurze älteste Geschichte der Taufgesinnten (Mennoniten genannt), Odessa, 1852. (Mennonite history, ca. 1520-1850)

This file consists of a diary fragment. It appears to be written by Heinrich Friesen.
It begins on Sept 1868 and ends in August 1869.
It describes detailed weather information and activities on farming and animal husbandry.
Church services and visiting with friends are referred to in the diary.
Villages of Halbstadt, Steinfeld, Elizabethtal, Schoenau,, Schardau, Alexanderwohl, are mentioned. 11 pages. Box 238

Buschman family, immigration, and Gnadenau church history. Also, an English translation of M.F. Schlichting's account of his life as a bookseller in Russia and anti-semitism, 1869-1872.

Duplicate letters from Department of Agriculture, Ottawa re. military exemption and land available to Mennonite settlers July 28, 1873

Various documents and first-hand accounts of settling Gnadenau, Kansas. Included are US naturalization records for 28 men, obituaries from the The Hillsboro Star; farm census record (1885), excerpts of an MA thesis by Cornelius Cicero Janzen (Chicago, 1926), correspondence between J.G. Barkman (Hillsboro) and Alberta Pante (Topeka, Kansas), list of 1874 settlers, an excerpt from the Kansas Historical Quarterly (Vol. XIII, 1944) about Krimmer MB church at Gnadenau, early settlement, social mores, maps of land ownership (Marion County, Kansas), an excerpt from C.C. Janzen's thesis (?) about pioneer life of Gnadenau, a fictional account of early days in Gnadenau, and a list of church-community practices (acceptable or rejected, and changes, 1882-1926).

A day by day account of the Russia - America emigration: two poems, message by Abram Friesen, song. It appears to be partly or wholly copied from another source.