od of
maladjustment so that they might become assimilated in the American
melting pot.

This, however, is not to suggest that minorities are necessarily anomic.
The Jews, for example, were always a cultural minority in Europe, yet
they adhered intensely to their own cultural norms.

[31] Muncy Historical Society, Wagner Collection, Hamilton Papers, p.
10.

[32] J. E. Wright and Doris S. Corbett, _Pioneer Life in Western
Pennsylvania_ (Pittsburgh, 1940), p. 142.

[33] _Ibid._ The existence of these "praying societies" is further
substantiated in Colbert's _Journal_. During these services, lay persons
gave exhortations or assisted Colbert in some fashion.

[34] _Fithian: Journal_, p. 76.

[35] Robert S. Cocks, _One Hundred and Fifty Years of Evangelism, The
History of Northumberland Presbytery 1811-1961_ (n. p., 1961), p. 2.

[36] _Fithian: Journal_, pp. 80-81.

[37] Joseph Stevens, _History of the Presbytery of Northumberland, from
Its Organization, in 1811, to May 1888_ (Williamsport, 1888), p. 38.

[38] _Ibid._, p. 18.

[39] Cocks, _One Hundred and Fifty Years of Evangelism_, p. 2.

[40] Guy S. Klett, "Scotch-Irish Presbyterian Pioneering Along the
Susquehanna River," _Pennsylvania History_, XX (1953), p. 173.

[41] _Ibid._, p. 174.

[42] Linn, _History of Centre and Clinton Counties_, p. 520.

[43] Klett, "Scotch-Irish Presbyterian Pioneering," p. 175.

[44] _Journal of William Colbert_, Monday, June 18, 1792; and Robert
Berger, "The Story of Baptist Beginnings in Lycoming County," _Now and
Then_, XII (1960), 274-280. According to the Reverend Robert Berger, of
Hughesville, a few Baptist settlers came into Lycoming County from New
Jersey, but were soon driven out by the Indians. Apparently, the
Philadelphia Baptist Association sent missionaries to the area in 1775
and 1778. However, not until the association commissioned Elders Patton,
Clingan, and Vaughn in 1792 did any extensive Baptist preaching take
place in this region. They were sent out for three months on the Juniata
and the West Branch. The Loyalsock Baptist Church, established in 1822,
is the first church.

[45] Dietmar Rothermund, _The Layman's Progress: Religious and Political
Experience in Colonial Pennsylvania 1740-1770_ (Philadelphia, 1961), p.
142. As Rothermund describes it, "The Pilgrim's progress had turned into
the layman's emancipation, and finally into the citizen's revolution"
(p. 137). He calls "the political maturit