@article{761,
  keywords = {Fiction, Tunkers, Land ownership, Agriculture, Customs and traditions, Pennsylvania Germans, Settlers, Upper Canada, Waterloo Township, German language, Mennonites, Indigenous peoples, Mississauga Indians, Six Nations Indians},
  author = {Ivan Groh},
  title = {Why the Bechtel, Biehn, Betzner and Gingrich families chose the Beasley Tract in 1800},
  abstract = {A partly fictionalized account of how the early Pennsylvania Mennonite and Tunker settlers came to Waterloo Township and paid Richard Beasley forty thousand dollars for sixty thousand acres. The genealogical relationships between the families are noted, along with the difficulties of procuring secure land titles.},
  year = {1967},
  journal = {Canadian-German Folklore},
  volume = {2},
  number = {Journal Article},
  pages = {61-92, },
  language = {English},
}