Palatine Origins of Some Pennsylvania Pioneers

Palatine Origins of Some Pennsylvania Pioneers
Author: Annette K. Burgert
Publisher: A K B Publications
Total Pages: 574
Release: 2000
Genre: History
ISBN: 9781882442171

"This volume is not intended to be a complete record of the families mentioned. The sole purpose is to provide the information on the emigrating generation from the German church records, with enough substantiating evidence from Pennsylvania records to attempt to prove the connection"--Introd. p. xvii.

Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786

Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786
Author: Don Yoder
Publisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore
Total Pages: 416
Release: 1980
Genre: History
ISBN:

The lists making up this remarkable work try to identify German emigrants in their homeland and in Pennsylvania. Thus they are cited with reference to manumission records, parish registers, passports, and other papers of German and Swiss provenance, and noted again, where possible, with reference to an equivalent range of Pennsylvania source materials, notably church records, wills, and tax lists. The materials antedating immigration often indicate causes, dates of emigration, the emigrant's occupation, his dates of birth and marriage, place of birth and residence, and names of family members, sometimes with lines of descent for several generations.

Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America

Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Northern Alsace to America
Author: Annette K. Burgert
Publisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore
Total Pages: 732
Release: 1992
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

Each family group record in this impressive volume includes the name(s) of the immigrant(s), ship arrival data, European villages of origin (including earlier Swiss residences where given), data on each family from the European church registers, as well as information on many of the 628 families after their arrival in America. (690pp. illus. index. hardcover. Author, 1992.)

Rhineland Emigrants

Rhineland Emigrants
Author: Don Yoder
Publisher:
Total Pages: 192
Release: 1981
Genre: History
ISBN:

This is a collection of articles pertaining to the European origins of Pennsylvania German immigrants which originally appeared in the magazine "Pennsylvania Folklife," successor to "The Pennsylvania Dutchman." Virtually all the emigrants mentioned in this work are cited with reference to church, parish, and provincial records and other records located in the archival repositories of the old Palatinate and adjoining provinces in southwest Germany; and these emigrants are cited again, where possible, with reference to a corresponding range of Pennsylvania source materials, notably church records, wills, and tax lists. In addition, names of emigrants are collated with Strassburger and Hinke's celebrated "Pennsylvania German Pioneers," from which are drawn dates of arrival, names of ships, and other evidence of immigration.

Eighteenth Century Emigrants from Langenselbold in Hesse to America

Eighteenth Century Emigrants from Langenselbold in Hesse to America
Author: Annette K. Burgert
Publisher: Masthof Press & Bookstore
Total Pages: 216
Release: 1997
Genre: Reference
ISBN:

The emigrants from the Langenselbold area settled mainly in Berks County, Pennsylvania. A large group settled in Lower Heidelberg Township. Also includes emigrants who went to New York in 1710.

Hopeful Journeys

Hopeful Journeys
Author: Aaron Spencer Fogleman
Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press
Total Pages: 272
Release: 2014-12-12
Genre: History
ISBN: 0812291670

In 1700, some 250,000 white and black inhabitants populated the thirteen American colonies, with the vast majority of whites either born in England or descended from English immigrants. By 1776, the non-Native American population had increased tenfold, and non-English Europeans and Africans dominated new immigration. Of all the European immigrant groups, the Germans may have been the largest. Aaron Spencer Fogleman has written the first comprehensive history of this eighteenth-century German settlement of North America. Utilizing a vast body of published and archival sources, many of them never before made accessible outside of Germany, Fogleman emphasizes the importance of German immigration to colonial America, the European context of the Germans' emigration, and the importance of networks to their success in America

Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and of Their Remote Ancestors, from the Middle of the Dark Ages, Down to the Time of the Revolutionary War

Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and of Their Remote Ancestors, from the Middle of the Dark Ages, Down to the Time of the Revolutionary War
Author: Henry Frank Eshleman
Publisher:
Total Pages: 404
Release: 1917
Genre: Anabaptists
ISBN:

"An authentic history, from original sources, of their suffering during several centuries before and especially during the two centuries following the Protestant Reformation, and of their slow migration, moved by those causes, during the last mentioned two hundred years, westward in quest of religious freedom and their happy relief in the Susquehanna and Schuylkill valleys in the new world; with particular reference to the German-Swiss Mennonites or Anabaptists, the Amish and other non-resistant sects"--Title page.