Fredric Klees' The Pennsylvania Dutch is the best and most inclusive volume with an over-all approach to its subject. "I have tried," he says, "to make this book a comprehensive treatment of the Pennsylvania Dutch in which everything was touched on and nothing ignored." It is a purpose achieved, on the whole, in a book of six parts ("Religion," "The Past," "By the Sweat of Their Brow," "The Country and the People," "Folkways," and "The Arts") with...

Ancestral history of Johan Hynurich Kunchel (1750-1827) and his descendants. Kunchel was a Hessian soldier hired to fight for the British in the Revolutionary War. He married Elizabeth Christina Kleinfelter and settled in York County, Pennsylvania. The related families of Kleinfelter, Heller, Myers, Peterson, Runyon, Moses, Bell, Allwein, France, Magley, Schnepf, Wasson, Devillbis, Kleinknight, Pringle, Macy, and Everett are included in this volume....