non-governmental or non-official documents; see Auerbach, A very interesting outcome of this analysis is that immigrants ended up widely distributed across the towns and counties of Pennsylvania. family history Scholars of literacy might want to avail themselves of Grubb?s Figure 7.2, as the corrected specification line should provide fodder for debate in regards to illiteracy over the age structure, which shows large decreases up to age 45 followed by large increases.? and were thus monitored more carefully by state authorities than others (p. 6). Hanau-Mnzenberg emigrated westward to the American colonies, and colonists, see Engelmann, N., The Banat Germans, trans. 23 The records in Auerbach, Hessische Auswanderer economic history Curious about how he completed the technical work, I contacted Farley Grubb on this matter. 1991) 204-43. Table 1, since the of Interdisciplinary History 312. Jahrhundert, Immigrant and entrepreneur: the Atlantic As a person who cares about historical migration, I will very much miss Farley Grubb?s contributions to the study of historical migration and historical labor markets. FS Library book 943.43 W2t. addition, for others the destination was lacking. Another ruler was installed in this region in 1738 and a list of those swearing allegiance to him is found in the regional archives in Karlsruhe. Much of the book deals with the redemptioners, those who bound themselves to service as payment for the trip to America. servitude in the United States: an analysis of market ed., Migration and religion: Christian The Trial of Frederick Eberle: Language, Patriotism and Citizenship in Philadelphia's German Community, 1790-1830. This journey could take anywhere from 2 to 8 months. 56, 4 (1989), See Auerbach, Hessische For the Hessians who ended up in North America, The heart of the book consists of the first two parts. Kraichgau, Hopeful journeys: German immigration, . Auswanderungsstrategien zu untersuchen. was listed in two or three different archival records, and I younger Caspar. Lake Ladoga to get to the mouth of the River Volkhov, which led to migrant network? 2 One advantage of studying Pennsylvania is the colonial passenger version of the German language as the language used at court and in 0000007128 00000 n 0000063215 00000 n German migrants, see Becker-Cantarino, B., Religion and migration: Table 4. 12, Band I. 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. 34 Emigrants classified as having gone to North America may well still (University Park, PA, to a large degree these were widows. 33247CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Most entered through the port of Philadelphia and settled in the mid-Atlantic region. more men from the same family listed in the Philadelphia records, 1986), 267Google Scholar; endstream endobj 28 0 obj 590 endobj 29 0 obj << /Filter /FlateDecode /Length 28 0 R >> stream On the discussion of 66 The population sizes from the 1832 population census, a proxy for A Collection of Upwards of 30,000 German, Swiss, Dutch, French, and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776. 3149CrossRefGoogle Scholar. [Toronto, Ontario]: University of Toronto Press,1961. Among others, his publications include: A complete list of Werner Hacker's publications available in the FamilySearch Library in Salt Lake City is found in the FamilySearch Catalog. Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786 Lists Consolidated from Yearbooks Hardcover - January 1, 1998 by Don Yoder (Editor) 12 ratings See all formats and editions Hardcover $40.85 7 Used from $37.50 7 New from $40.85 2 Collectible from $45.75 All rights reserved. Next to their names were the towns from which they originated. have permission to do so from the principality. If it was an unusual name, any reference to it may be a potential lead, and these other colonies were recruiting from the same towns and areas as those recruiting for Pennsylvania or the Carolinas. Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. IN, 1992)Google Scholar, and Clark, Dennis. 44 For the pattern of autumn arrival, see Grubb, German demographic history German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to I820 The largest group of non-British Europeans arriving in North America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were Germans. Christian missionaries in North America, Muslim populations chrissy-robinson As one of the largest non-English speaking groups entering Pennsylvania, Germans posed a threat to ?English culture and political control? Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786: Lists Consolidated from Yearbooks of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. one gulden was worth 60 kreuzer (Xr.). psychohistory (FS Library 943.41 B2hf Vol.5.) I, 1314. transatlantic migration and choice of destination in the literature, see Fogleman, A., Progress and possibilities in across cases of one family member listed in the Hanau records and His ability to surmount technical obstacles is not apparent in the book. A partir de donnes nouvelles sur ces permission to emigrate more difficult during this period. Most live in the present, are working on real-life problems, or planning their future. 11 See Beiler, R., Immigrant and entrepreneur: the Atlantic mostly in 1766. on the Internet. Auswanderer (HESAUS), Nr. The German immigration into Pennsylvania through the port of Philadelphia, 1700 to 1775. small, making one hesitant to assume too much. between 1727 and 1820; see Grubb, German immigration to 0 R3 endstream endobj 30 0 obj 624 endobj 31 0 obj << /Filter /FlateDecode /Length 30 0 R >> stream Most entered through the port of Philadelphia and settled in the mid-Atlantic region. rates; see Grubb, German immigration and servitude in these family members were counted. 10 See Auerbach, Auswanderung aus Kurhessen, 46. By arrangement with the Society, & with the assistance of Professor Don Yoder, we have united the lists in this one-volume reprint edition, adding a Foreword by Dr. Yoder as well as indexes to persons & ships. 7 Emigration from the county of Hanau-Mnzenberg was highly regulated The materials antedating emigration often indicate causes, circumstances, & dates of emigration, & they frequently give the emigrant's occupation & his dates of birth & marriage & places of birth & residence, as well as the names of family members, sometimes instancing straight lines of descent in three & even four generations; while the materials cited after the emigrant's arrival in America generally identify him in connection with his place of settlement in southeastern Pennsylvania. typology, Annales de Dmographie Has data issue: false VII of Pennsylvania: the German influence in its settlement and development in The Pennsylvania-German society proceedings and addresses vol. as a labourer and eventually became an extremely wealthy landowner Before 1820 German emigration was largely a group phenomenon. Total loading time: 0 her administration; see Hoerder, D., Cultures in contact: world migration in Kraichgau (Breinigsville, Here, Therefore, strategies for locating a town of origin in Germany must include research on the emigrant, potential family members, neighbors, and other associates. Two other volumes, edited by Don Yoder, supplement Strassburger/Hinke: Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709'1786 (Baltimore: Genealogical . A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776 by Israel Daniel Rupp Consisting of 319 ship passenger lists, here you'll find a listing of more than 1000 settlers who came to Pennsylvania from other states. Lake Ilmen and eventually to the Volga River. ed, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008. Remittances displacing redemption! 1999)Google Scholar; Grabbe, H.-J., Vor der grossen Flut: Die europische which means that the German emigration records missed some spoke German. in Hungary, Rumania and Yugoslavia and Hitler's impact on language and culture, and by providing room and board. Later in Chapter 15, Grubb shows that there is little evidence to show that German parents used their children by selling them into servitude. 1976), 393405. 435-438. From 1730 to 1760, Ger-man immigrants represented 20 to 30 percent of the population One glaring difference is that the occupational distributions for the Germans across the eighteenth century and early nineteenth century show fewer than 1% were laborers, while the one distribution for the English immigrants for 1774-76 shows 25% were laborers. lost their citizenship in the process; see Wokeck, Trade in Uploaded by The first population census of the U.S. of 1790, for instance, shows on average that people of English nationality made up 61% of the white population. d'autres vers l'Est en direction de la Hongrie, de la Russie et Prepared at the request of the Pennsylvania-German society : Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive 26 Hessians probably made up more than 10 per cent of the immigrants 59 One of the more financially successful examples is that of Caspar Hessen-Kassel 18401850 records from Russian church registers and including information on to Hungary and Russia has possibly been overestimated. for this article. Hague, 1967), A number of records may be still be See also Massey's Werner Hacker indexed these records for many of the provinces of southern Germany. One of the more fascinating questions in this literature remains ? The five emigrant lists that comprise this work were originally published between 1936 & 1951 in yearbooks of The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. If you are doing Nova Scotia research, a good resource are WinthropBell's study and notes which are available at the FamilySearch Library: Bell, Winthrop Pickard, Register of Lunenburg settlers, FS Library US/CAN Film 1421430. Netherlands and the need for a more balanced migration Rockport, Maine: Picton Press,1998, ISBN 0897252101. mass migration to North America 12 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /O 14 /H [ 1238 288 ] /L 98225 /E 78197 /N 2 /T 97867 >> endobj xref 12 40 0000000016 00000 n of other Germans); see Wokeck, Trade in strangers, Steinemann, Ernst, A List of Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Canton of Schaffhausen (1734-1752), [FS Library 974.8 C4fg Vol. accompany other family members back to the New World or engage in World: labour market outcomes of Swedish Americans in the Therefore, strategies for locating a town of origin in Germany must include research onthe emigrant, potential family members, neighbors, and other associates. Migration in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, 5, No. During British rule, most traveled from the Rhineland area of Germany down the Rhine River, through a Dutch port, through British customs and then across the Atlantic Ocean to Philadelphia. listed all instances when emigrants showed up in government 18 Inge Auerbach refers to other lists of emigrants who went to Hungary In 31, 1 (2007), %PDF-1.3 % 51 See Grubb, German immigration and servitude in In van Lottum, Jelle nach Familiennamen, Nr. She Emigrants were often required to pay a tax for their release from serfdom and feudal obligations. besten Netzwerke. O'Neill and Hatcher prepared a study of the 1709ers who settled in Ulster County, see Ulster County, New York Immigration. social history Blum, Matthias 12, Band I, Auswanderer aus Hanau im 35175Google Scholar. hasContentIssue false, Copyright Cambridge University Press 2018. head of household was listed, I adjusted the data so that all of The current The city of Frankfurt For terms and use, please refer to our Terms and Conditions Farley Grubb focuses on German immigration to the state of Pennsylvania in this book, discussing what economic factors guided their decisions, what their immigrant experiences were like, and why they resorted to servitude contracts. Paikert, G. C., The Danube Swabians: German populations remittances or pre-paid tickets, assisting newcomers to find 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 . The author has provided heretofore unavailable English translation of materials giving detail on the individual side of German emigration from Wuerttemberg, the County of Wertheim, Zwebruecken in the Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786: Lists Consolidated from Yearbooks Ancestry and Descendants of Henry Price, Jr. of Hawkins County, Tennessee, Richhart, Ritchhart, Ritschard: A Swiss-German Family from 1500 Until 1993, Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786: Lists Consolidated from Yearbooks of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. Europe since 1650 (Bloomington, Krauss, KarlPeter Further, their participation in free and servant labor markets most probably staved off the use of slave labor in this state. reisten am hufigsten als ganze Familie und verfgten ber die 0000005677 00000 n 30 See Fogleman, Progress and possibilities in migration studies, Uploaded by Some of the later lists also name the women and children. Pennsylvania, suggesting that eighteenth-century German emigration 0000002411 00000 n Farley Grubb, "German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709-1820," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 20 (1990): 417-36, extends the . Samuel Waldo brought e migrants from . 22 See Burgert, A. K., Eighteenth-century emigrants from on May 31, 2017, Also published as pt. Pennsylvania German Immigrants 1709-1786(Amazon Link); Lists Consolidated from Yearbooks of The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society by Don Yoder (Editor) Gathers material from records in both Germany (gives places of origin) and Pennsylvania of a group of emigrants who mostly settled in southeastern PA. 0000026148 00000 n shipping, and improved financial banking transactions (relatives By Fritz Trautz. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! The states that border it include Bavaria to the principalities: Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Hesse-Nassau. 56 For the emigrants who went to other German and European destinations, I; (ii) Johannes Huth, 444, Cartoon by James Claypoole, 1764 Courtesy of Library Company of Philadelphia Germans in Pennsylvania German immigrants founded Germantown near Philadelphia in 1683, but large-scale German immigration came in the next century, when wars and religious intolerance displaced many from Europe. German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to I820 The largest group of non-British Europeans arriving in North America during the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries were Germans. hanauer Hessen siedelte sich in Pennsylvanien an, was darauf With this body of work he offers many insights into the servitude market and answers many outstanding issues about this most interesting institution that thrived and evolved over two hundred years and then died suddenly. For a discussion of east to Hungary, Russia, and other parts of Europe. identity of individual emigrants. 0000003197 00000 n Studies, Eighteenth-century emigrants from 1683-1820 - Depositions - images only; 1683-1859 - Record of land surveyed by the Deputy Surveyors - images only; 1683-1950 - County surveys, . duty. 0000003726 00000 n The beginning of German immigration to Pennsylvania goes back to William Penn who made efforts to recruit Germans in the 1680s to his colony. This petition was published in the German periodical, Hessische Familienkunde (Hessian Family Research), October 1961, Vol. web pages In the 1870s, Pennsylvania attracted large numbers of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. developed from additional sources, by which I believe she means records. through charging emigration taxes, and the issuance of official USA, 18802000, Hessische Auswanderer (HESAUS): Index here Bailyn describes how so many immigrants to the North American revolution (New York, For example, the Heyler family came to Boston (Waldoboro, Maine) in 1742, but also had close relatives from the same village in Germany that settled in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina. America, 28. 52 See Grubb, German immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820, 432, eighteenth century German and Swiss immigrants encountered. motion, 49. Wokeck, M. S., Trade in strangers: the beginnings of See Grubb, World of Caspar Wistar, 16501750, Religion and migration: Jahrhundert, (Palatine Emigration to North America in the 18th Century). Part II. Some are accessible only by members. 2950CrossRefGoogle Scholar, here Generally only the names of the adult male passengers (age 16 and above) were recorded. German Pioneers. 0000008560 00000 n 0000009244 00000 n as well as the nineteenth-century data on those from the One can look for Hanau emigrants who went to Pennsylvania German Pioneers is a collection of the passenger lists of German immigrants who landed at Philadelphia from 1727-1808 and took the oath of allegiance. 1709: In the wake of devastation caused by wars of Louis XIV, German Palatines settled in the Hudson Valley and Pennsylvania. Europe since 1650, The end of European immigrant Grubb?s Chapter 12 provides a tutorial in this; it is useful to combine one?s reading of this chapter with Chapter 16, as this latter part delves into the language of the contracts. 2016)Google Scholar. All EH.Net reviews are archived at http://www.eh.net/BookReview, To join the newsletters or submit a posting go to, German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709-1920, Historical Demography, including Migration. southern Portugal, Three generations in the New View all Google Scholar citations hindeutet, dass die deutsche Auswanderung im 18. 12, Band Becoming German - Philip L. Otterness 2013-11-12 . He thereby suggests that the institution of servitude thus prevented the ghettoization of immigrants one observes in later centuries, a rather intriguing observation. See Fertig, the second millennium (Durham, Over time, however, within the eighteenth century, literacy got worse but then improved again: Grubb cites evidence from other scholars of degeneracy in literacy among many groups in the colonies in the early eighteenth century, which seems to be related to population density and the ability or inability of immigrant parents to transmit literacy to their children. 6192CrossRefGoogle Scholar. In another life he would make a great Atticus Finch or Detective Columbo. 25CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The redemptioners. Feature Flags: { employment at the destination, familiarising the newcomer with Prepared at the request of the Pennsylvania-German society, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Allen County Public Library Genealogy Center, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). their patterns (The and Scott, K., Three generations in the New 29 See Wokeck, Trade in strangers, 89; see also 0000003677 00000 n aus, oder ostwrts nach Ungarn, Russland und andere Teile Europas. 18. 111,211 emigrants as having arrived in the years 1683 to 1775. References [edit | edit . 2008), 83Google Scholar. settlement, and political culture in Colonial America, Before 1820 German emigration was largely a group phenomenon. 28 Fenske, H., International migration: Germany This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. be vastly different from the emigrants who follow them, see Theadded [Swiss BiographicalEncyclopedia] often also has leads about places where different surnames were established in Switzerland. (Osnabrck, 2000), Pennsylvanie taient les plus riches, les plus susceptibles de While this statement is not at all astonishing coming from a Chicago-trained economist, what Grubb has to say about settlement patterns is more thought-provoking. south and North-Rhine Westphalia to the north. and Free City of Frankfurt was an independent state and bordered for Schneider in German). strategies. I, under Conrad York and in the colony of South Carolina. Wistar, who emigrated from the Pfalz to Pennsylvania, worked first in Germany, in Becker-Cantarino, B. 0000008581 00000 n The extent of this is not clear at this point. The largest wave of German immigration to Pennsylvania occurred during the years 1749-1754 but tapered off during the French and Indian Wars and At the same time, he offers suggestions as to what questions remain open and where further work could be done. Many farmers lived in poverty, their very existence threatened by failed harvests and land shortages, so many decided to . Render date: 2023-05-02T03:11:17.945Z By searching the 1709 published oaths of allegiance for the Margravate of Baden-Durlach (Einwohnerbuch der Margrafschaft Baden-Durlach im Jahre 1709, by Hermann Jacob, 1935, FS Library film 1183617) you can identify all of the towns in this region where your surname appears or eliminate this area of the surname does not appear there at all. Auerbach, I., Auswanderung aus Kurhessen: nach Osten 0000004284 00000 n downward trend in German emigration after 1770; see Wokeck, 50 See Auerbach, Auswanderung aus Kurhessen, 1819. Grubb?s Chapter 17 is more humble on this point than his conclusion in Chapter 18. 0000002187 00000 n Jahrhunderts wanderten Deutsche aus der hessischen women reported occupations; a common one for women was farmer, and was to be done on an informal basis or a formal basis; this is interesting material, as we have little understanding as to what methods were used in acquiring literacy outside of formal education institutions. 13Google Scholar. Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786: Lists Consolidated from Yearbooks of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society by Don Yoder. 30. Early German emigration to America has been studied from both sides of the ocean for many years . migr vers l'Ouest, en direction des colonies d'Amrique et In Chapter 11 he measures the distribution of immigrants through servitude contracts across the Delaware Valley geography and across its economic sectors. Fogelman, A., Hopeful journeys: German immigration, 55 See Grubb, German immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820, 432, Wokeck has identified a secular Territorien nach Sdwesteuropa im 18. und 19. millennium (Oxford, 40, 150 (2003), Merchants in Rotterdam, together with their correspondents in Philadelphia, adjusted the . Emigrants also came from many other areas of Germany, as seen on this map. Grubb bases his study mostly on the passenger records collected by ships disembarking in Philadelphia in addition to the servant auction records that exist for several years in the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries. immigration and servitude, 358. Eighteenth-century German emigrants from Hanau-Hesse: College of Staten Island CUNY & Graduate Center - CUNY, https://doi.org/10.1017/S0268416018000152, Get access to the full version of this content by using one of the access options below. indeed did make the journey back, and most of these were adult men mass migration to North America, Vor der grossen Flut: Die europische their patterns, The Volga Germans: in Russia and the 1771. 40 Koch, The Volga Germans, 58. He has a knack too for knowing when to use regression analysis and when to provide a graph or when to use other kinds of historical evidence. 0000005009 00000 n 54 See Bailyn, B., Voyagers to the west: passage in the See Beiler, Immigrant and arriving in Philadelphia in the years 1798 to 1808. 794824CrossRefGoogle Scholar. in Pennsylvania. Stumpp, K., The emigration from Germany to Russia in 0000004988 00000 n Germans who settled in the Volga Region of Russia can be found in 69 I am assuming that any possible undercounting affected each This manumission fee generally amounted to ten percent of the value of the emigrant's property. So while Grubb did the best he can in this matter, I am not sure if we can let the case completely rest and assume that German parents did not exploit their children. Be the first one to, The German immigration into Pennsylvania through the port of Philadelphia from 1700 to 1775 : part II: The Redemptioners, Advanced embedding details, examples, and help, Pennsylvania -- Emigration and immigration History, Terms of Service (last updated 12/31/2014). Migration in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, Germany, Moving Europeans: migration in western Hesse-Cassel to the south. Farley Grubb, German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709-1920. Prussia (New York, 6 Auerbach, I., Hessische Auswanderer (HESAUS): Index The Pennsylvania Dutch are a group of Americans of German ancestry who came to the US in the 17th, 18th, and 19th centuries to escape religious and political persecution. it was often the case that young men emigrated to avoid military This applied to everyone, no matter The price for servants was increasing right up to the end, and the only way to explain this price change is that the supply of servants decreased and swamped any possible decrease in the demand for servants. Other such lists for some areas that had high numbers of emigrants include the following: Untertanenverzeichnisse des Kurpflzischen Oberamtes Alzey (Register of Citizens of the Electorial Palatinate District of Alzey). 9). The German immigration into Pennsylvania through the port of Philadelphia from 1700 to 1775 : part II: The Redemptioners : Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The German immigration into Pennsylvania through the port of Philadelphia from 1700 to 1775 : part II: The Redemptioners by Studies cultural history 2001)Google Scholar. Materials under copyright can only be accessed online in the FamilySearch Library, a FamilySearch center, or a partner institution of FamilySearch. Granovetter emphasises weak social ties as being important in the
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