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Excerpt from The Story of an Old Farm: Or Life in New Jersey in the Eighteenth Century Bendorf Surrounded by Apple Orchards - The Aspect and Architecture of the Town - One of the Oldest Churches in Germany - The Home of Johannes Moe lick and His Wife Mariah Katrina - He Sets Sail for America The Great German Exodus and its Cause - German Happiness Before the Thirty Years' war the Miseries of that Contest - The Country People Fly From Their Dis mantled Villages and Wasted Lands - Peace Banquets are Spread in 1648 - But Little Comfort Comes to the Rhine Valley - Subsequent Continental Wars Louis XIV. Devastates the Palatinate - Despotic Princes, Petty Persecutions and Cruel Conscriptions - The German Turns His Back on Fatherland - The Great Flood of Emigration to America. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.