Apart From the World
Subtitle: An account of the origins and destinies of various Swiss Mennonites who fled from their homelands in remote parts of Cantons Zürich, Aargau, and Bern ...
By: [J. Ross Baughman].
Edition: first edition, out of print but available in PDF download at http://www.familysearch.org/Eng/Library/fhlcatalog/supermainframeset.asp?display=titledetails&titleno=667044&disp=Apart+from+the+world%20%20&columns=*,0,0
Series: The Bachmann and Baughman Family Historical Series, vol. III
Publisher: Shenandoah History
Published: 1997
Place of publication: Edinburg, Va
Language: eng
Number of pages: 230
ISBN-13: 9780917968198
Subjects: Bachmann family.; Baughman family.; Swiss Americans -- Genealogy.; Mennonites -- United States -- Genealogy.
Genres: Genealogy
First sentence: Mountains served as anvil so their hearts could be hammered into shape.   Otherwise, not even the Swiss could have lived alone up there —  high above the rest of Europe.
Description: Libraries are actually filled with mirrors, at least as far as the German author Johann Wolfgang Goethe saw it. When he had Wagner speak to Faust in his classic drama, they both took a moment to reflect on history:  “Forgive me!  It is a great delight to place oneself in the spirit of the times... and then see how far we have advanced from that.”
	To which Faust replied:
	“The past is a sealed book for us.  What you call the spirit of the times is really your own spirit in which the times are reflected.”
Notes: Table of Contents

	prologue:  The Early Days by Lake Zürich, 10,000 B.C.-1450 A.D. .. page 2
	
        chapter i:  Homeland of the Bachmans, Switzerland 1458-1743 .. page 22

	chapter ii:  Bachmans in Exile, Along the Rhine 1537-1738 .. page 56

	chapter iii:  Baughmans in the New World, Pennsylvania 1710-1760 .. page 76
	
	chapter iv:  More Baughmans Along the Shenandoah, Virginia 1724-1820 .. page 98

	chapter v:  Where Plain Folks Put Their Faith, 1778-1812 .. page 114

	epilogue:  Voices from the West, 950 A.D.-1865 .. page 130
	
        Maps ..  page 168

	Appendices A - H ..  page181
   	
	Swiss church registry of Bachmans; Zürich Song; Protestant Family Tree; 
	Bachmans Who Stayed in Europe;Saucon Meetinghouse Deed; Shenandoah Folk Tales; 
	Other Descendants; Baughman Historical Society Report 

	Additions and Corrections to Earlier Research ..  page 204

	Bibliography and A Guide to Footnoted Sources .. page 212

	Index ..  page 220


Illustrations

        Shenandoah Iron Trivet .. frontis


	p  r  o  l  o  g  u  e

Prehistoric Swiss Lives	2
Ancient Pottery by Lake Zürich	5
A Lakeshore Village	 6
Spear & Axe from Richterswil	8
The Tree of Life	9
Funeral of a German Warrior	10
Rune Stone	10
Golden Ring 	10
Alemmanic Priestesses	11
Swiss Gold Coins	12
The Order of St. John	13
Germanic Knights in the Crusade	14
Wädenswil Castle Diagrams	15
Battle of Sempach	17
Weapons of the Old Zürich Wars	18
The Farmers’ Months	19
Old Zürich by the Lake	20
Early Folk Art Motifs	21


	c h a p t e r   o n e

The Area by Wädenswil	22
Bachman Coat of Arms (inset)	22
Natural Spa	22
Wood Worker	24
Bucolic Wädenswil	25
Wädenswil Tax Revolt of 1468	26
Swiss Council of War	27
Ulrich Zwingli	28
Battle of Marignano	28
Monks’ Revelry	29
Affectionate Couples	30
A Spoiled Child & Nahrung	33
Bladesmen of Thirty Years’ War	32
Balthasar Hubmeier	33
The Palatinate in Flames	34
A Peasant’s Manner of Dress	35
Menno Simons	36
Baptism	37
Earthy Delights at a Swiss Spa	38
The Blacksmith	39
Trimming the Tongue of Heresy	41
Arrests of Anabaptists in 1637	42
Wädenswil Church	44
Richterswil’s Church Registry	47
Attack on Fort Bellen	52
The Castle at Knonau	53
The Monastery at Einsiedeln	54
The Devil in the Reformation	55

	c h a p t e r    t w o

Driven Out of Canton Zürich	56
Aarau, Seat of Aargau	58
Markirch	61
Mennonite Dress in Alsace	62
Circle of Skulls	66
Hans Bachman’s signature	67
Executions at Alzey	68
Mass Hanging	69
Froschauer’s Bookplate	71
Taler Coin from Canton Zürich	72
The Oldest Mennonite Fraktur	73
Emigration Pamphlet	74


	c h a p t e r   t h r e e

British Sailing Ship	76
Refugee Tent Camp in London	78
Joh. Georg Bachman’s signature	79
Iron Furnace & Forge	82
Newcomer’s Rifle	84
Loyalty Petition of 1728	86
Johannes Bachman’s Signature	87
Trade with the Indians	88
Public Stockade	89
Early American Money	89
Cresap’s Fort	90
Fraktur from Conestoga Manor	91
Jacob Bachman’s Tombstone	93
Bethlehem’s First Log House	93
The Bachman’s Stone Barn 	94
Georg Bachman’s Tombstone	95
Petition Signers of 1728	97


	c h a p t e r   f o u r

Palatine Wagon Train	98
Start of the Old Indian Trail	101
Lord Fairfax	102
Fairfax’s Greenway Court	103
Hite & Fairfax Signatures	104
Building a Log House	105
Printing Tobacco on Money	107
Dellinger’s Floor Plan	108
The Dellinger Log House	109
Indian Attack on the Frontier	110
Frontier Rifleman	111
Erecting a Palisade	112
A Cabin’s Sleeping Loft	112
Early Outbuildings	113

	vii

	c h a p t e r   f i v e

Bachman Bible Register	114
Courting Couples	119
Reading by Firelight	123
Stone Loop Holes	126
The Stone House	127


	e  p  i  l  o  g  u  e

A Warrior’s Shell Gorget	130
The Great Sun	130
Cherokee Riverside Village	132
Patterns of Pottery Decoration	133
Mound Village in Georgia	133
Indians of Arkansas	135
Cherokee Chief John Ross	140
The Cherokee Phoenix	141
Cherokee Manner of Dress	142
Religious Revival	144
River Crossing	145
Lewis Lafayette Baughman’s 
   1867 Log House & Signature	147
Arkansas Land Rush	148
The Baughman School	149
Chief Red Cloud	150
Cheers for General Jackson	152
The Arkansas Traveler	157
Rebel Quilt from Arkansas	159
General Ben McCulloch	160
General Earl Van Dorn	161
Rebel Money	162
Rebels on the Mississippi	163

	m   a   p   s

Prehistoric Central Europe	168
The Old Rhine	169
Richterswil & Wädenswil	170
The Swiss Plateau	171
The Kraichgau	172
Farms of Lancaster County	173
Saucon Township	174
The Shenandoah Valley	175
John Baughman’s Surveys	176
The Back Road	177
Crooked Creek Baughmans	178

The Bachman Coat of Arms
	in the Manner of Dürer	180
Anghänsli Charms	197
An Eagle Claims a Deer 	204
Major Baughman the Hermit	206
Book Burning	212