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- noun Plural form of
Tunker .
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Examples
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Brethren called Tunkers, and we were much interested in his conversation on religious subjects.
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Parliament and contingencies, including the erection of a Light House on Gibraltar Point; Menonists and Tunkers were permitted to affirm in
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger
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Quakers, Menonists, and Tunkers, were to pay £10 for their exemption from militia servitude, the Act to be continued until the next session of parliament.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger
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Near at hand was the meeting-house of a sect of German Quakers, Tunkers or Dunkards, as they are indifferently named.
Destruction and Reconstruction: Personal Experiences of the Late War Richard Taylor
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Tunkers, Presbyterians, and Roman Catholics without places of worship.
The Rise of Canada, from Barbarism to Wealth and Civilisation Volume 1 Charles Roger
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(Lancaster, 1901); HOLSINGER, History of the Tunkers and the Brethren
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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The first German settlements were made by the Tunkers, now known as Dunkers, or
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 11: New Mexico-Philip 1840-1916 1913
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The Tunkers, nevertheless, prospered and, in spite of set-backs caused by the
The Catholic Encyclopedia, Volume 15: Tournely-Zwirner 1840-1916 1913
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Group after group of picturesque devotees that had been driven into seclusion and eccentricity by long and cruel persecution — the Tunkers, the
A History of American Christianity 1830-1907 1897
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Mennonites, Tunkers, Moravians, Gichtelians, Schwenkfeldians, disciples of the cobbler of Goerlitz, Jacob Boehme, and enthusiasts who as yet had no name.
American Lutheranism Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod 1894
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