The New Order Amish originate from apair of movements in Ohio and Pennsylvaniain the 1960s. The key driving factors in the Ohio schism were twofold – one was a belief that controversial practices such as tobacco and alcohol use should be eliminated, and that “clean” courtship should be im...
Y., at the public house then kept by Judge Demon, and heard them give a description of the wonderful plate [sic] and the singular stone which Joe had found, and that he was then in some place in Pennsylvania translating the hieroglyphics on the plate by means of looking through the ...