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Dunkards
Dunker Dun"ker, n. [G. tunken to dip.] One of a religious denomination whose tenets and practices are mainly those of the Baptists, but partly those of the Quakers; -- called also Tunkers, Dunkards, Dippers, and, by themselves, Brethren, and German Baptists. Note: The denomination was founded in Germany in 1708, but after a few years the members emigrated to the United States. Seventh-day Dunkers, a sect which separated from the Dunkers and formed a community, in 1728. They keep the seventh day or Saturday as the Sabbath.

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- Dunkard may refer to: Dunkards, colloquial name for the Schwarzenau Brethren, a German Anabaptist group founded 1708 Dunkard Township, Greene County, Pennsylvania...
- The Schwarzenau Brethren, the German Baptist Brethren, Dunkers, Dunkards, Tunkers, or sometimes simply called the German Baptists, are an Anabaptist group...
- various branches of Schwarzenau Brethren. The Dunkard Brethren are a branch of the Schwarzenau Brethren or Dunkards, an Anabaptist tradition that emerged during...
- Dunkard's Bottom or Dunkard Bottom may refer to the following places in the United States: Dunkard's Bottom, Virginia, established on the New River in...
- Dunkard Cr**** is a stream that flows 36.9 miles (59.4 km) through Greene County, Pennsylvania and Monongalia County, West Virginia, near the towns of...
- Conservative Anabaptist denominations, such as the Dunkard Brethren Church, teach: Members of the Dunkard Brethren Church shall abstain from the use of intoxicating...
- Committee for Brethren History in Virginia, 1973 Leatherman, Greg "German Dunkards." e-WV: The West Virginia Encyclopedia. 17 October 2011. Accessed 16 October...
- Dunkard Township is a township in Greene County, Pennsylvania, United States. The po****tion was 2,174 at the 2020 census. Dunkard Township takes its name...
- Local settlers referred to the community as "Dunkard's Bottom." The Brethren were known as "Dunkards" from the German Tunkers, after the Schwarzenau...
- Archdiocese of Australia, New Zealand and Lebanon. "Love Feast of the Dunkards; Peculiar Ceremonies of a Peculiar Sect of Christians". The New York Times...