Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Quakers, Freedon

 It was call Penn's Acres when that plot of land was granted to the Quaker Wm Penn from the English Crown. And to show the nature of the Quaker, its principal city was Philadelphia, City of Brotherly Love, prominent in the Bible Revelation as that one city of all the seven churches there that was faithful and true site of an early Christian congregation in the Book of Revelation. As a Quaker, Penn had experienced religious persecution and wanted his colony to be a place where anyone could worship freely. This tolerance much exceeded that of other colonies and was not immediately swallowed up by the inception of what became the warlord United States after the Revolution much fostered there. The second city of Pennsylvania became Germantown, named for all the Palatinate immigrants that Penn soliticited to stock his colony of freedom. Many of these were  pietistic folk, especially Dutch Quakers and Mennonites of the irregular sort who had been hunted in Europe for their insistence upon doctrines of peace. Many differing religions sought and ended up in this freedom ferment before revolutionay fervor took over the public stage. There were all sorts of beliefs lamented by the more straight and narrow Lutherern, Reformed sorts. A cataloge of these affronted the life and politics of that visitor to the scene, Gottlieb Mittelberger, who  lamented in 1756 that