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From: Merle C Rummel <>
Subject: Re: Canantacken
Date: Sat, 07 Apr 2001 18:21:52 -0400
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>I wonder, could your "Canantacken" be "Catoctin" which is the area around
>Thurmont, Maryland.

I haven't had a response to a query I made to a better authority than I ---

but -the Moravians used Bible Place names considerably -
Bethlehem PA
Nazareth PA
Salem NC
I suspect this is "CANAN -tachen", and I don't know enough German to
translate the last phrase.

Merle C Rummel
Church Historian

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