Harms, Peter (18th century)
Peter Harms, a Mennonite preacher in the Tilsit lowlands, then Lithuania, wrote a letter to the Amsterdam Committee of Foreign Needs on 28 January 1724, giving important information concerning the persecution of the Mennonites in this district by Frederick William I of Prussia, which led to their expulsion.
Bibliography
Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam, 2 vols. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: v. II, 2, No. 715.
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