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François Pesme de St-Saphorin, a nobleman of the canton of Vaud, [[Switzerland|Switzerland]], born 1668, of a prominent family of [[Geneva (Switzerland)|Geneva,]] who as the Swiss ambassador to [[Netherlands|Holland]] played a prominent part in the negotiations concerning the deportation of Bernese Mennonites to America in 1710.


= Bibliography =
<em>Doopsgezinde Bijdragen</em> (1909): 139-49.

Hege, Christian and Christian Neff. <em>Mennonitisches Lexikon</em>, 4 vols. Frankfurt &amp; Weierhof: Hege; Karlsruhe; Schneider, 1913-1967: v. III

Hoop Scheffer, Jacob Gijsbert de. <em>Inventaris der Archiefstukken berustende bij de Vereenigde Doopsgezinde Gemeente to Amsterdam</em>, 2 vols. Amsterdam: Uitgegeven en ten geschenke aangeboden door den Kerkeraad dier Gemeente, 1883-1884: v. I, No. 1331.

Müller, Ernst. <em>Geschichte der Bernischen Täufer</em>. Frauenfeld: Huber, 1895. Reprinted Nieuwkoop : B. de Graaf, 1972: 265-99.

Smith, C. H. <em>The Mennonite Immigration to Pennsylvania</em>. Norristown, 1929: 62-74.


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