Weaverland

Martin G. Weaver was my great-great-uncle. He lived from 1859 to 1935 in New Holland, Lancaster County, PA. He was a well-known local historian, and wrote books on the history of the Weber/Weaver families, the Borough of New Holland, and The Lancaster Conference Mennonites. I was too young to know him when he died.

This little booklet, which was published in November, 1933 is a revision of a series of articles that he wrote for the newspaper, The New Holland Clarion. The material here has been slightly edited by Jay D Weaver for capitalization and punctuation. I also changed several items for which Mr. Weaver had created an errata sheet typed on a small piece of paper and glued to the booklet. There have been no substantive changes made to the document.

As is usual in a historical document, researchers have found evidence which contradicts several items in this book. I am aware of several of these and I have included information about them as links at the appropriate places in the document. I have also included graphics of those parts of the book outside the main body of the material. You may click on the following to view various aspects of the booklet.