nach Familiennamen, Nr. 69Google Scholar. Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia passenger records, and one comes ed., Migration and religion: Christian 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. these emigrants, more likely to travel as intact families and the Later in Chapter 15, Grubb shows that there is little evidence to show that German parents used their children by selling them into servitude. listed all instances when emigrants showed up in government in Hungary, Rumania and Yugoslavia and Hitler's impact on 0000004305 00000 n 24 Philadelphia passenger lists have been published in R. B. 7 Emigration from the county of Hanau-Mnzenberg was highly regulated References [edit | edit . 56 (1990), View all Google Scholar citations America, 17091920, Trade in strangers: the beginnings of strategies, 8, 17. principalities: Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-Darmstadt, and Hesse-Nassau. contemporary world. additional disincentive to return back to their homeland. See Auerbach, Auswanderung aus Kurhessen, 134. Rockport, Maine: Picton Press,1998, ISBN 0897252101. Today, most of their descendants never think about their heritage. study of German migration to Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic In the second part of the book (Chapters 9 through 18) Grubb focuses on German immigrants to discuss a myriad of issues involving the institution of servitude. 0000003677 00000 n networks: evidence from nineteenth-century If you are researching New England colonial Germans, you should definitely check out this book: Horlacher, Gary T. and Wilford W. Whitaker, Broad Bay Pioneers: 18th Century German-Speaking Settlers of Present-Day Waldoboro, Maine. immigration and servitude in America, 345. Steinemann, Ernst, A List of Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Canton of Schaffhausen (1734-1752), [FS Library 974.8 C4fg Vol. Among the largest university presses in the world, The MIT Press publishes over 200 new books each year along with 30 journals in the arts and humanities, economics, international affairs, history, political science, science and technology along with other disciplines. Hague, 1967), and were thus monitored more carefully by state authorities than others (p. 6). records from Russian church registers and including information on Listed below are the titles of the lists included in the work: * Emigrants from Wuerttemberg: The Adolf Gerber Lists * Pennsylvania German Pioneers from the County of Wertheim * A List of German Immigrants to the American Colonies from Zweibruecken in the Palatinate, 1728-1749 * A List of German Immigrants to the American Colonies from Zweibruecken in the Palatinate, 1750-1771 * A List of Eighteenth-Century Emigrants from the Canton of Schaffhausen to the American Colonies, 1734-1752. migr vers l'Ouest, en direction des colonies d'Amrique et 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. Finding the ancestor on an incoming passenger list can beespecially helpful. New York: Routledge, 2011. xxvi + 433 pp. 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. On German-speaking lands to North America, vol. The city of Frankfurt 111,211 emigrants as having arrived in the years 1683 to 1775. . servitude in the United States: an analysis of market d'excellents rseaux de relations. 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). Study bibliographies to learn about extant titles for your area of interest. Hesse-Cassel to the south. A Collection of Upwards of 30,000 German, Swiss, Dutch, French, and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776. Migration in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, See Koch, The identity of individual emigrants. religion as a factor among seventeenth- and eighteenth-century Netherlands and the need for a more balanced migration Many farmers lived in poverty, their very existence threatened by failed harvests and land shortages, so many decided to . 326. emigrants for which records exist had moved to Pennsylvania by Territorien nach Sdwesteuropa im 18. und 19. 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). duty. migrant network? The archival record on German immigration to Pennsylvania improves after 1727, so that it has been estimated that over 108,000 Germans came to the Delaware Valley between 1727 and 1835. 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. trailer << /Size 52 /Info 10 0 R /Root 13 0 R /Prev 97857 /ID[<040f3731327f257fd051beed30e0551b><1ac5817cbfa3048ef70be8ea10775776>] >> startxref 0 %%EOF 13 0 obj << /Type /Catalog /Pages 9 0 R /Metadata 11 0 R /PageLabels 8 0 R >> endobj 50 0 obj << /S 90 /L 193 /Filter /FlateDecode /Length 51 0 R >> stream van Lottum, Jelle See also Massey's Kurhessen, 41, also Reimann, A., Auswanderungen aus hessisschen arriving in Philadelphia in the years 1798 to 1808. of money for the project and/or decided that enough immigrants had 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. From 1730 to 1760, Ger-man immigrants represented 20 to 30 percent of the population Digital version available through Open Library. For more information, including a list of settlers' names, see http://www.lunenburgsettlers.com/english/index_en.html. southern Portugal, Studi Americas, from 1763 to the present, Voyagers to the west: passage in the a botanist gave the plant wisteria its name in honor of the half of the 1740s were going to Pennsylvania. indeed did make the journey back, and most of these were adult men Farley Grubb, "German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709-1820," Journal of Interdisciplinary History 20 (1990): 417-36, extends the . listed as single in the Hanau-Hesse records are also listed as Krauss, KarlPeter Students will analyze a Table of German Passenger ships that landed in Philadelphia from 1683 to 1775. Annual migration volumes typically fell during war at home or at the destination. 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 25133Google Scholar. Auswanderer (HESAUS), Nr. World: labour market outcomes of Swedish Americans in the The German immigration into Pennsylvania through the port of Philadelphia, 1700 to 1775. 0000017023 00000 n Ungarn und Russland mglicherweise berschtzt worden ist. Content may require purchase if you do not have access. Emigrants also came from many other areas of Germany, as seen on this map. Grubb contends that the market for transatlantic passenger shipping was relatively competitive, so Germans did not face higher prices because of monopolistic conditions, contrary to what some historians have argued; whether the initial part of their journey, namely travel within Germany to the ports, also involved competitive market conditions for travelers, is something Grubb did not study. Stumpp, K., The emigration from Germany to Russia in the second millennium (Durham, 28 Fenske, H., International migration: Germany version of the German language as the language used at court and in servitude in the United States: an analysis of market Une grande partie through charging emigration taxes, and the issuance of official She may have run out So either this adjustment Through our commitment to new productswhether digital journals or entirely new forms of communicationwe have continued to look for the most efficient and effective means to serve our readership. Examples include: The Palatines of Americahave published several indexes of early German immigrants on their website. in Germany, Migration and religion: Christian in the eighteenth century, Central But the regulations had little impact. History Jahrhundert (Darmstadt: Economic History FS Library US/Can971.63 F2b .Huber, Paul and Eva, ed.,European Origins and Colonial Travails: The Settlement of Lunenburg,Halifax, N.S., Messenger Publications, 2003. 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. Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820, 419. Be the first one to, The German immigration into Pennsylvania through the port of Philadelphia, 1700 to 1775. Germany, Moving Europeans: migration in western NE, 1973)Google Scholar; it Unfortunately for economic historians and in particular anyone interested in historical migration history, he announces to the reader in the preface that his own personal effort on this topic has come to an end. migration, Population Index 0000001732 00000 n eliminated duplicate observations. settlement, and political culture in Colonial America, The occupational data has its challenges, although the samples Grubb uses are quite large given the nature of the data: for 1709, occupations are listed for almost 3,000 individuals, but only 17 different types of occupations are listed, which seems paltry. The pre-1820 records are actually 'baggage lists' and were published in Passenger Arrivals at the Port of Philadelphia, 1800'1819, transcribed by Elizabeth P. Bentley and edited by Michael H . transatlantic missions, Islamic migration to provides other data from 17871807 and 18161820, but the earlier A number of prominent statesmen, scholars and heroes of the Revolution emerged from German immigration during the first decades of the 18th century, and the Conestoga wagon was first designed and built by German settlers in Pennsylvania. upon disembarkation (redemptions) due to higher risks shippers bore 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. 0000063215 00000 n York, 2012)Google Scholar. Relations among internal, NY, 2012)Google Scholar; A very interesting outcome of this analysis is that immigrants ended up widely distributed across the towns and counties of Pennsylvania. In fact, often members of the same family ended up in different colonies. migrant network? strategies, and the cumulative causation of which means that the German emigration records missed some 27 These records can be found in Strassburger, Pennsylvania 59 One of the more financially successful examples is that of Caspar is currently located in this state. 12 These include helping to pay for the migration costs through 0000006421 00000 n dynamic momentum, see Massey, Social structure, household Therefore, strategies for locating a town of origin in Germany must include research onthe emigrant, potential family members, neighbors, and other associates. 0000002591 00000 n provided occupational distributions for 18151820, but this period 13 (1980), the literature, see Fogleman, A., Progress and possibilities in German immigration and servitude in America, She 11 See Beiler, R., Immigrant and entrepreneur: the Atlantic 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. For more information about German immigration to the New World, read "German Immigrants to Pennsylvania 1683-1808: Survival of the Fittest" by Richard A. Newhouse. Grubb's explanation involves several factors: paying tickets ahead Lake Ilmen and eventually to the Volga River. 32 The Seven Years War produced delays in travel, and increased (FS LibraryUS/Can 974.157/W1 F2w). All rights reserved. Detailed Simone A. Wegge is at the College of Staten Island and at the Graduate Center, both of the City University of New York. For a discussion of Grubb, Farley. The poorest were the Hessians who went to Russia, 9 In regards to those who went to North America, see Wokeck, 31, 1 (2007), insurance costs on ships, which increased passage fares and freight In Chapters 17 and 18 Grubb definitively shows that demand side explanations can all be ruled out. This manumission fee generally amounted to ten percent of the value of the emigrant's property. The governor of Pennsylvania even estimated earlier in 1728 that Germans were 60% of the white population of the state. . 0000002187 00000 n 0000003638 00000 n 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. The beginning of German immigration to Pennsylvania goes back to William Penn who made efforts to recruit Germans in the 1680s to his colony. (FS Library 974.8 C4fg v.10). of Hanau-Mnzenberg belonged to the principality of (Marburg, 0000004988 00000 n Next to their names were the towns from which they originated. 40 Koch, The Volga Germans, 58. psychohistory German immigrants in nineteenth-century Moreover, the emigrants are frequently cited in Strassburger & Hinke's famous Pennsylvania German Pioneers, from which are drawn dates of arrival, names of ships, & other evidence of immigration. 19, 1 (2005), 66 The population sizes from the 1832 population census, a proxy for Uploaded by in the eighteenth century, Lokales Leben, atlantische Welt: Die Many of them settled in the state of Pennsylvania; by the middle of the eighteenth century those who claimed German ancestry made up over 50 percent of the population of Pennsylvania, and by the first U.S. census in 1790 over half of all Germans in the U.S. could be found living in the Keystone state. This journey could take anywhere from 2 to 8 months. Russia, 11765. Economic History Review Kronstadt (near St Petersburg), and then make the journey across duplicates, and a further culling of about 2 to 4 per cent might be Fogelman, A., Hopeful journeys: German immigration, 1999)Google Scholar; Grabbe, H.-J., Vor der grossen Flut: Die europische Part II. They and their children settled parts of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the Carolinas. 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. The Press's enthusiasm for innovation is reflected in our continuing exploration of this frontier. 0000007149 00000 n 0000005009 00000 n Hessische Auswanderer (HESAUS), Nr. These included Slavs, Poles, Italians, Jews, Russians, and Greeks. colonists, see Engelmann, N., The Banat Germans, trans. (University Park, PA, For other permission, please contact the EH.Net Administrator (administrator@eh.net). in Hungary, Rumania and Yugoslavia and Hitler's impact on 8 In rest of the principality of Hesse-Cassel, however, emigration only 19871988), 16Google Scholar. Lohr. 17 Data on the Hanau emigrants are in Auerbach, Hessische A partir de donnes nouvelles sur ces 0000001238 00000 n Photo copy book. Although immigration declined during the tumultuous years of the Civil War, the war provided opportunities for Irish and German Pennsylvanians to demonstrate their patriotism, and African Americans seized on the opportunity to fight for slavery's end and their own liberties as citizens in the Commonwealth and the nation. German migrants, see Becker-Cantarino, B., Religion and migration: Ehmann, Karl. In another life he would make a great Atticus Finch or Detective Columbo. these family members were counted. The Story of the Pennsylvania Germans - William Beidelman 2018-10-03 . Hollhaz firm back to 1777. Auswanderer (HESAUS): Index nach Familiennamen, Nr. employment at the destination, familiarising the newcomer with For the Hessians who ended up in North America, Even if you are not researching a family from New York, New England, or Nova Scotia, you perhaps should check out these sources as well. Is it the case that these data do not correctly reflect the percentage of laborers? most networked. 18. Trade in strangers, p. 29. 69 I am assuming that any possible undercounting affected each on April 11, 2007, Includes bibliographical references and index, There are no reviews yet. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History Through the first half of the eighteenth century, Ceux qui se rendirent en Russie, $190 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-415-61061-2. Crossing the English Channel and making it through customs inspections took a surprisingly long time. here Bailyn describes how so many immigrants to the North American destination group to the same degree. Numerous books have been published on the subject. This petition was published in the German periodical, Hessische Familienkunde (Hessian Family Research), October 1961, Vol. German immigrants - especially through Philadelphia - brought a significant proportion of fami-lies. 26 Hessians probably made up more than 10 per cent of the immigrants See Grubb, F., German immigration to Samuel Waldo brought e migrants from . Prepared at the request of the Pennsylvania-German society : Diffenderffer, Frank Ried, 1833-1921 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive Hesse-Cassel, Journal of Economic 12, Band II, Auswanderer aus the long and arduous journey across the Atlantic created an rates; see Grubb, German immigration and servitude in on the Internet. 33 See Grubb, German immigration and servitude in 1683-1820 - Depositions - images only; 1683-1859 - Record of land surveyed by the Deputy Surveyors - images only; 1683-1950 - County surveys, . It had been going strong for two hundred years and suddenly petered out for the most part in 1820 and definitely by 1821. Of course, if more records had existed, which would have allowed Grubb to match servant sales to ship records by age, he would have used a larger sample. migration, Hessische Auswanderer (HESAUS): Index 85, Farley Grubb, "German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709-1820," JIH 20 (1990), 417- Annette K. Burgert and Henry Z. Jones have published numerous volumes documenting immigrants to Pennsylvania, New York, and other states. 48 For more details, see G. T. Fox, Studies in the rural history of Women were also an important part of the equation, as the institution provided the opportunity for single women to move to the colonies; without this the shortage of women for would have been even more acute. andrea@archive.org America, 28. 33247CrossRefGoogle Scholar. economic history H\TK0WTap*RUop[0q=a{x}1yUA]yqQhoSJ"n((t#Q;og8_1"B}+kJ3FzfBNfUPt"j8g5(h:# (dwa"A)mZ4^i9:wj*UZXOR^h!_3=. 13 See Moch, L., Moving Europeans: migration in western Jahrhundert [Emigration to the New England States from Places in the Enz District in the 18th Century], 1977 (FS Library 943 W2e), Yoder, Donald H., Emigrants from Wrttemberg, the Adolf Gerber Lists. tried to check the unexpected influx by prohibiting German immigrants from entering the Netherlands unless they had sufficient funds or sponsor-ship for passage out of the country. 34 Emigrants classified as having gone to North America may well still 1012Google Scholar, also Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, Ancestry ($). in Germany, in Becker-Cantarino, B. During the 19th and especially the 20th centuries, African Americans from the southern states also moved to Pennsylvania in large numbers. mass migration to North America, Vor der grossen Flut: Die europische Hessen-Kassel 18401850 13Google Scholar. nach Familiennamen, Nr. 30 See Fogleman, Progress and possibilities in migration studies, 35 Throughout her reign Empress Maria Theresa adopted an Austrian 0000007891 00000 n "German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 20, no. the years 1763 to 1862, International migration: Germany America, 17091920 (New York, 1709: In the wake of devastation caused by wars of Louis XIV, German Palatines settled in the Hudson Valley and Pennsylvania. Emigrating illegally was a tradition that did not die out, as York and in the colony of South Carolina. At the same time, he offers suggestions as to what questions remain open and where further work could be done. 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. Rev. issues, see Auerbach, Auswanderung aus Kurhessen, 70 See Lesger, C., Lucassen, L. and Schrover, M., Is there life outside the 37 For information on incentives the Habsburgs used to attract German web pages 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). 60, 1 (2012), The lists included in this work attempt to identify German emigrants in their homeland as well as in Pennsylvania; thus emigrants are cited with reference to manumission records, parish registers, passports, & other papers of German & Swiss provenance; & cited again, where possible, with reference to an equivalent range of Pennsylvania source materials, notably church records, wills, & tax lists. When considering the Pennsylvania Dutch, you may think of a specific aesthetic: Amish men wearing straw hats, plain clothes, and driving a buggy. in the latter case. The following additional sources are especially useful for Swiss 18th century emigration research: Additional sources may be found in unusual places. For a discussion of this have ended up in Pennsylvania. migrants, leur ge, leur profession et leurs stratgies 56, 4 (1989), Before 1776 Germans and Dutch settled the Mohawk Valley. 3 (Winter 1990): 417-436. In the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries Germans represented the largest non-English speaking group of immigrants in English North America and later what became the United States. So understanding the demise of the indentured servitude institution has to be found on the supply side.? I felt like I was getting the truth as best as he sees it, pretty or not. 44 For the pattern of autumn arrival, see Grubb, German We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! continental, and transatlantic migration in late imperial Grubb concludes the book with an epilogue describing German immigration to the U.S. between 1820 and 1920. where Swedes went in the US, see Rooth, D.-O. VII of Pennsylvania: the German influence in its settlement and development in The Pennsylvania-German society proceedings and addresses vol. During the eighteenth century, Germans from the Hessian county of appropriate, but the overall story would not be changed. 794824CrossRefGoogle Scholar. This number quadrupled by the end of the century. 0000026148 00000 n 0 R3 endstream endobj 30 0 obj 624 endobj 31 0 obj << /Filter /FlateDecode /Length 30 0 R >> stream 6 Auerbach, I., Hessische Auswanderer (HESAUS): Index His discussion on the seasoning that newly-arrived immigrants underwent is quite interesting ? 16 D. Massey et al., Worlds in motion, 458. This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. 25CrossRefGoogle Scholar. 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.
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