TY - ENCYC
KW - Mennonites
KW - Biographies
KW - Indigenous peoples
KW - War  1812
KW - Military conscription
KW - Pennsylvania Germans
KW - Waterloo Township
KW - Eby  Ezra E.
KW - Sherk  Joseph
KW - Betzner  Samuel
KW - Beasley  Richard
KW - Gingerich  David
KW - Gingerich  Abraham
KW - Eby family
KW - Eby  Benjamin
AU - Ezra Eby
AB - A reprint of the first chapter in Eby's book which is indexed in detail in the WRP database. There is a biographical sketch of Eby as one of the earliest local historians. The Pennsylvania Mennonite settlement in Waterloo Township is related from 1799 to 1835, with many details of individuals, families and farmsteads. The difficulties of pioneering and the formation of the German Company are described, with an account of the part the Waterloo Mennonites played in the War of 1812.
C1 - Eby, Ezra E.; Sherk, Joseph; Betzner, Samuel; Beasley, Richard; Gingerich, David; Gingerich, Abraham; Eby Family; Eby, Benjamin
C2 - German Company
C3 - Waterloo Tp; Wilmot Tp; Dumfries N Tp; Preston; Grand River; Beasley's Tract; German Company Tract; Berlin; Freeport
C4 -  1799-1861
C7 - English(30)
CY - Kitchener
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 - 1356
LA - English
M1 - Book, Whole
M3 - Print(0)
PB - Doon Pioneer Village Board of Directors
PP - Kitchener
PY - 1970
SP - 42 p. ill.
T1 - A biographical history of Waterloo Township and other townships of the county: early settlers and their descendants
ER -