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Consists of an arithmetic exercise book begun 18 August 1762. Book also includes other material, such as Nickel genealogical data. Also a photocopy of the book.

1763 - 1930. Die Geschichte der Kolonie Menno seit der Zeit der Einwanderung in Russland, Abwanderung von Chortitz nach Bergthal, Landsuche in Manitoba, Kanada; wiederum Landsuche, dieses Mal in Paraguay, Südamerika, Auswanderung aus Kanada und Einwanderung in Paraguay.

Consists of an arithmetic exercise book begun 1 Oct 1764.

Came from a Peter Penner in Beatrice, Nebraska. Maybe the same Peter Penner (b. 1823) of whom we have another arithmetic book. Maybe Classen was an ancestor of his.

Photocopies of family correspondence of a Mennonite bishop in Ontario.  Full inventory may be found on the Web site of the Mennonite Heritage Center, which owns the originals.

The papers are divided into two series:

(1) Family Papers, 1767-1911

(2) Genealogical Research Files, circa 1960-1970

A set of personal papers created by a missionary to Argentina and later relief worker in Spain during the Spanish Civil War in the (old) Mennonite Church.  Materials include incoming correspondence, speeches and sermons, records pertaining to relief work, photographs, and miscellaneous materials.

record books scanned from microfilms MF CHR 3 and MF CHR 47 http://mla.bethelks.edu/metadata/cong_303.php

births, deaths, marriages, baptisms
digitized http://mla.bethelks.edu/metadata/cong_321.php from microfilm MF CHR 4 and MF MSS 236, plus links to some additional congregational materials

It's not clear that all the items in here come from Jacob H. Richert. It also could be that more than one Jacob Richert or J. H. Richert is represented by the materials.

Neuer und Alter Kunst- und Jugend-Kalender Auf das 1770ste Jahr Christi... (Dantzig: E. Gewerk, Thom. Joh. Schreiber, [1770]); handwritten notes in it that look like a preaching schedule for the Danzig Mennonite congregation (does this belong to the Richert papers or is it just mixed in by accident?) (should this be cataloged in OCLC sometime?)

school papers (penmanship and grammar exercises, German and English, one dated 1882)

financial record book ca. 1900

a folder from Roland Ensz - printed matter, several items are First Mennonite Church, Newton

Family papers of a Mennonite agriculturalist and soil conservationist.  These materials provide information about the Schmucker, Smucker, Smoker family reunions as well as correspondence, photographs, and diaries of various members of the Smucker family.

record book scanned from MF CHR 2 http://mla.bethelks.edu/metadata/cong_306.php

This set of collected family documents contains correspondence, financial records, broadsides, property records, tax receipts, sermons, and assorted ephemera pertaining to the Nold and Yoder families of Columbia, Ohio, later of Columbiana and Leetonia, Ohio.  Materials document the following individuals, all of whom held ministerial positions in area Mennonite congregations:

Bishop Jacob Nold (1765-1834)

Deacon Jacob Nold (1798-1864)

Deacon John Ziegler Nold (1823-1913)

Deacon John L. Yoder, son-in-law of John Ziegler Nold (1855 - 1940)

Bishop Paul L. Yoder (1897-1990)

The bulk of the correspondence comprises incoming correspondence to Jacob Nold (1898-1964) and Paul L. Yoder.

Of particular significance in this collection is the copy of a petition drafted by J. M. Brenneman to be sent to President Abraham Lincoln in 1862 that pleads for Mennonite exemption from military service in the American Civil War.

illuminated geometry book dated 1779
also some Claassen and Jantzen genealogical information with translations

Photocopies of documents, primarily correspondence, to and from "Long" Christian Zook, an Amish minister in Mifflin County, Pennsylvania, who led his congregation away from the larger Amish church in 1849.  Some documents have been transcribed and translated into English.

The collection consists of early Mennonite documents collected by Mrs. Lester Snyder and their English translations. The documents include various baptismal certificates and letters from Langnau, Switzerland and Stark County, Ohio. Among the names listed in these documents are Christina Schwartz, Christian Schwartz, Ulrich Schwarz, Heinrich Sommer, Anna Barbara Wyss, Menonit Egli, Anna Haghegger, and Johannes Wyss.