TY - JOUR
KW - Fiction
KW - Tunkers
KW - Land ownership
KW - Agriculture
KW - Customs and traditions
KW - Pennsylvania Germans
KW - Settlers
KW - Upper Canada
KW - Waterloo Township
KW - German language
KW - Mennonites
KW - Indigenous peoples
KW - Mississauga Indians
KW - Six Nations Indians
AU - Ivan Groh
AB - 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.
BT - Canadian-German Folklore
C1 - Gingrich, Abraham; Gingrich, Barbara Hunsicker (m. Abraham); Gingrich, David; Gingrich, Elizabeth Groh; Baer, Martin; Baer, Catherine Gingerich; Winger, John; Troyer Family; Beasley, Richard; Brant, Joseph; Haldimand, Gov.; Betzner, Samuel; Sherk, Joseph; Reichert, Christian; Reichert, Barbara; Stedman, Philip; Dodge, Nathaniel; Preston, Mr; Woodward, Mr; Biehn, John; Bechtel, George; Bechtel, Abraham; Gingerich, David; Betzner, Samuel, Jr; Wismer, Joseph; Preston, Benham; Bechtel, Jacob; Thompson, John; Rosenberger, Benjamin; Gingerich, Abraham; Kinzie, Dilman; Clemens, George; Bechtel, Joseph; Vansickel, Rinear; Cornell, Benjamin; Bean, John; Bricker, Samuel; Wilson, James; Horning, Peter; Smith, John; Rousseau, John Baptiste; Sararas, Elizabeth Livergood; Sararas, Nicolas; Sararas, Andrew; Sararas, Mary Livergood; Shupe, John; Livergood, John; Wildfong, Jacob; Eby Family; Erb, Daniel; Dickson, William; Springer, Benjamin; Erb, John; Hilborn, Jesse; Histand, David; Groh, Michael
C2 - Mennonite Brethren in Christ; Mississauga Indians; Six Nations Indians
C3 - Block Number 2; Pennsylvania, Lancaster Co; Horning's Tract; Freeport; Bean's Tract; Bechtel's Tract; Cruickston Park, Blair; Blair; Doon; New Aberdeen; Waterloo Tp
C4 -  1800-1804
C7 - English(30)
DP - Elizabeth Bloomfield. WATERLOO REGIONAL HISTORY BIBLIOGRAPHY SYSTEM. Most pre-1993 items are also included in the print work Waterloo County to 1972: an Annotated Bibliography of Regional History. Kitchener: Waterloo Regional Heritage Foundation, 1993.
ID - 1562
LA - English
M1 - Journal Article
M3 - Print(0)
PY - 1967
SP - 61
EP - 92
EP - 
T1 - Why the Bechtel, Biehn, Betzner and Gingrich families chose the Beasley Tract in 1800
T2 - Canadian-German Folklore
VL - 2
ER -