Download or read book Chronicon Ephratense written by Brother Lamech and published by Applewood Books. This book was released on 2009-05 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This English translation of the 1786 work, originally published in 1889, is a history of the community of Seventh Day Baptists at Lancaster County, Pennsylvania and is one of the major primary resources on Ephrata. Written by two orignal members of the community, it includes a biography of the spiritual order's founder Conrad Beissel, whose spiritual name in the Ephrata Cloister community was Friedsam Gottrecht.