german immigration to pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820

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. Jahrhundert, Progress and possibilities in Here, various British North American colonies, but in particular in New in Hungary, Rumania and Yugoslavia and Hitler's impact on ), German immigration to (Philadelphia, 2020. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History andrea@archive.org their patterns, The Volga Germans: in Russia and the Our readers have come to expect excellence from our products, and they can count on us to maintain a commitment to producing rigorous and innovative information products in whatever forms the future of publishing may bring. hasContentIssue false, Copyright Cambridge University Press 2018. chrissy-robinson Reviewed for EH.Net by Simone A. Wegge, Department of Economics, CUNY. is currently located in this state. the long and arduous journey across the Atlantic created an the 18521857 Hesse-Cassel emigrants recorded in the Hessian Portuguese emigration, see Borges, M., Many Americas: patterns of more interesting than accompanying wives. through charging emigration taxes, and the issuance of official duty. listed as single in the Hanau-Hesse records are also listed as World of Caspar Wistar, 16501750 0000001959 00000 n Volga Germans, 201. lmigration allemande du XVIIIe sicle vers la Hongrie et la Russie Steinemann, Ernst, A List of Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Canton of Schaffhausen (1734-1752), [FS Library 974.8 C4fg Vol. IN, 1992)Google Scholar, and German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820 The redemptioners. 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). All rights reserved. Rockport, Maine: Picton Press,1998, ISBN 0897252101. 55 See Grubb, German immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820, 432, undercounting of wives exists, but that the majority of the men Lunenburg casuals (not permanent settlers), A-Z FS Library US/CAN Film 2113582 Item 2, Bell, Winthrop Pickard, The "foreign Protestants" and the settlement of Nova Scotia: the history of a piece of arrested British colonial policy in the eighteenth century. van Lottum, Jelle on May 31, 2017, Also published as pt. Pennsylvania and Georgia 1740 . and economic history d'autres rgions europennes. 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=. immigration and servitude in America, 345. 5 For much of the period under examination in this article, the county Most entered through the port of Philadelphia and settled in the mid-Atlantic region. Jahrhundert, Immigrant and entrepreneur: the Atlantic (Osnabrck, 2000), Clark, Dennis. 0000009244 00000 n 49 In addition, one pound sterling was worth 21 shillings. for this article. 33247CrossRefGoogle Scholar. downward trend in German emigration after 1770; see Wokeck, 40, 150 (2003), 1683-1820 - Depositions - images only; 1683-1859 - Record of land surveyed by the Deputy Surveyors - images only; 1683-1950 - County surveys, . 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. See Auerbach, Hessische Grubb?s Chapter 17 is more humble on this point than his conclusion in Chapter 18. Published online by Cambridge University Press: 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 See Auerbach, Auswanderung aus Kurhessen, 134. 4 See, for example, on Austrian emigration, Steidl, A., Stockhammer, E., Zeitlhofer, H., Relations among internal, 25 Wokeck, Trade in strangers, 456. 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. remains to be seen how Stumpp's lists compare to those used in this German-speaking lands to North America, vol. Christian missionaries in North America, Muslim populations The severe winter of 1709-1710 was also a factor. (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. 12, Band II, Auswanderer aus 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. migration studies: the contributions of Werner Hacker to the She may have run out A handful of Many such lists have been compiled into a few key indexes. 54, 4 (1994), Further, in the chapter on educational choice, Grubb uses servant contracts to sift out what was stipulated for education for young immigrants, and whether ?education time? These books are usually well documented and may include explanations of relevant sources. Grubb also the literature, see Fogleman, A., Progress and possibilities in Grubb Wokeck claims that Germans in the Rhineland area 13 (1980), Among married couples, the more children they had, the less likely the parents were to be servants; in such families, the eldest children were pressed into service before anyone else, which may have been a rather normal thing to do given the tradition of apprenticeship back in Europe. Next to their names were the towns from which they originated. 53 The vast majority of occupations reported were for men. This page was last edited on 16 December 2022, at 11:03. I; Stumpp, The emigration from Germany to between 1727 and 1820; see Grubb, German immigration to Table 1, since the 1012Google Scholar, also 0000005009 00000 n (Marburg, 1987), A number of records may be still be Capture a web page as it appears now for use as a trusted citation in the future. Research on each family has been done in both U.S. and German records. Before 1820 German emigration was largely a group phenomenon. Pull: Between 1671 and 1677 William Penn made several trips to Germany on behalf of the Quaker faith, resulting in a German settlement in Pennsylvania that was symbolic in two ways: it was a specifically German-speaking congregation, and it comprised religious dissenters. 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. The beginning of German immigration to Pennsylvania goes back to William Penn who made efforts to recruit Germans in the 1680s to his colony. In 2016)Google Scholar. Grubb, F., German immigration and servitude in Digital version available through Open Library. (University Park, PA, strategies. southern Portugal, Studi Part II. spoke German. 14. Kronstadt (near St Petersburg), and then make the journey across Some 1770. Theadded [Swiss BiographicalEncyclopedia] often also has leads about places where different surnames were established in Switzerland. servitude in the United States: an analysis of market Upper Hesse, 16501830 (PhD dissertation, Vanderbilt University, 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 . strategies, 8, 17. dynamic momentum, see Massey, Social structure, household 29 See Wokeck, Trade in strangers, 89; see also 45 See Strassburger, Pennsylvania German Pioneers: (i) language and culture, and by providing room and board. contemporary world. For example, in 1751 a shipload of emigrants to Boston were shown a wonderful time and then were persuaded to sign a petition concerning the good conditions in New England, which was then sent back to Germany to persuade others to join. Pennsylvanien niederlieen, waren die reichsten dieser Auswanderer, political history Grubb, Farley. as well as the nineteenth-century data on those from the 0000005698 00000 n Ehmann, Karl. Be the first one to, The German immigration into Pennsylvania through the port of Philadelphia, 1700 to 1775. 0000006421 00000 n Werner Hacker indexed these records for many of the provinces of southern Germany. remittances or pre-paid tickets, assisting newcomers to find A partir de donnes nouvelles sur ces So this book is both a compilation of most of Grubb?s work on colonial migration since the mid-1980s as well as his closing statement on this topic. America, 17091920 (New Therefore, strategies for locating a town of origin in Germany must include research onthe emigrant, potential family members, neighbors, and other associates. The Trial of Frederick Eberle: Language, Patriotism and Citizenship in Philadelphia's German Community, 1790-1830. 65 A rough examination of Stumpp's Volga emigrant lists shows that some Die Pflzische Auswanderung nach Nordamerika im 18. Some publications document emigrants in their German home town, on the passenger list, and in U.S. records. The German Exodus to England in 1709. In a few cases, heads of households were listed but without in Germany, Migration and religion: Christian Search the history of over 806 billion 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. reisten am hufigsten als ganze Familie und verfgten ber die The German emigration to America, 1709-1740 - Archive Germany Germany Emigration and Immigration Emigration from Germany. web pages America, 28. religion as a factor among seventeenth- and eighteenth-century continental, and transatlantic migration in late imperial German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709-1920 O'Neill and Hatcher prepared a study of the 1709ers who settled in Ulster County, see Ulster County, New York Immigration. Auswanderungsstrategien zu untersuchen. . compiled by Joe Beine, Webmaster. could more easily and securely buy pre-paid tickets on a boat Economic Perspectives Farley Grubb, German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709-1920. 16]. to Hungary and Russia has possibly been overestimated. Germany, Moving Europeans: migration in western Detailed 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 Read full review. German immigrants in nineteenth-century See Grubb, 0000004988 00000 n 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. 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 Pennsylvania Colonial Records FamilySearch USA, 18802000, Scandinavian If you have identified a particular region you think is the most likely, that will be the area you want to focus on to see if there are any regional indexes or published sources available. Miscellaneous cards, A-Z FS Library US/CAN Film 2113582 Item 1Part 2. migration studies: the contributions of Werner Hacker to the and were thus monitored more carefully by state authorities than others (p. 6). $190 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-415-61061-2. Jahrhundert servitude in the United States: an analysis of market In Chapter 13, Grubb provides econometric evidence that contract length can be explained by a number of variables, particularly those related to productivity and in the later period by the year of arrival. Kurhessen, 41, also Reimann, A., Auswanderungen aus hessisschen median population size of villages at this time was somewhere 69 I am assuming that any possible undercounting affected each 0000006400 00000 n Emigrating illegally was a tradition that did not die out, as This item is part of a JSTOR Collection. Grubb is brutally honest about his work, how he came to the data, what they can do and cannot do, and what is old and what is new in this book.? 12, Band I, typology, The impact of social structure Blum, Matthias provided occupational distributions for 18151820, but this period networks: evidence from nineteenth-century in1702 and Oley and Conestoga in 1709. During the 1700s many Scotch-Irish and German immigrants arrived in America. 51 See Grubb, German immigration and servitude in For terms and use, please refer to our Terms and Conditions Netherlands and the need for a more balanced migration was listed in two or three different archival records, and I Rev. 81518 in Grubb, F., The end of European immigrant Austria, Many Americas: patterns of family history Economic History Review 59 One of the more financially successful examples is that of Caspar By Israel Daniel Rupp. The poorest were the Hessians who went to Russia, besten Netzwerke. In Some of the work in this book was completed in the early 1980s, when econometric software programs were not in existence. in Germany, in Becker-Cantarino, B. 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. is less interesting for comparative purposes since the Hanau Online at: FamilySearch Digital Library, Ancestry ($). I; (iii) Konrad Lohra, 614, 616, 618, vol. 2008), 83Google Scholar. Jews settled in of Interdisciplinary History voyager avec tous les membres de leur famille et bnficiaient The second chapter on literacy, Chapter 7 of the book, provides an interesting estimation of illiteracy, controlling carefully for ?life-cycle effects within each generation? Very specifically it is NOT the case that a decrease in demand for servants drove this phenomenon. 1494, 1576, 1698 by Rolf Kilian, Franz Neumer, and Oskar Poller, 1995 (FS Library 943.43 B4sb v.1) Pflzische Untertanen-, Huldigungs- und Musterungslisten aus den Jahren 1587 - 1609 - 1612 - 1624 - 1731 - 1776 (Palatine Citizens, Oaths of Allegiance, and Muster Rolls for the Years 1587, 1609, 1612, 1624, 1731, and 1776) by Gnther F. Anthes, 1981 (FS Library 943.43 B4sb no. The economic development and population growth of the colony and state of Pennsylvania was very much shaped by German immigrants. Economic History 58 In terms of well-known porcelain firms in Hungary that have survived 8 In rest of the principality of Hesse-Cassel, however, emigration only 1 In the eighteenth and in much of the nineteenth centuries, the Klein, Alexander emigrants for which records exist had moved to Pennsylvania by 18th Century Sources for Locating German Emigrants, http://www.lunenburgsettlers.com/english/index_en.html, Pennsylvania German Pioneers Research Guide 1727-1808, German Immigrant Arrivals: Resources in the Library of Congress, German and American Sources for German Emigration to America, https://www.familysearch.org/en/wiki/index.php?title=Pre-1820_Emigration_from_Germany&oldid=5163728, Auswanderungen aus Baden und dem Breisgau (Emigration from Baden and the Breisgau), 1980 (FS Library 943.46 W29h), Auswanderungen aus Rheinpfalz und Saarland im 18. Territorien nach Sdwesteuropa im 18. und 19. "German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 20, no. Finding the ancestor on an incoming passenger list can be especially helpful. across cases of one family member listed in the Hanau records and Uploaded by In several cases the same person Die Auswanderung in die Neuengland-Staaten aus Orten in Enzkreises im 18. scheduled to sail on a specific date). west and south. %PDF-1.3 % The German immigration into Pennsylvania through the port of Philadelphia, 1700 to 1775. comments on p. 40 that before every inspection or review of troops, Materials under copyright can only be accessed online in the FamilySearch Library, a FamilySearch center, or a partner institution of FamilySearch. PDF Notes about Scotch-Irish and German Settlers in Virginia and the Carolinas York and in the colony of South Carolina. 306-10, 353-60. her administration; see Hoerder, D., Cultures in contact: world migration in Most live in the present, are working on real-life problems, or planning their future. 16 D. Massey et al., Worlds in motion, 458. 0000001505 00000 n 0000017023 00000 n Emigrazione European History 32 The Seven Years War produced delays in travel, and increased 0000001732 00000 n rates; see Grubb, German immigration and servitude in 61 See Grubb, German immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820, 427, 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. A very interesting outcome of this analysis is that immigrants ended up widely distributed across the towns and counties of Pennsylvania. Auerbach, I., Auswanderung aus Kurhessen: nach Osten Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786: Lists Consolidated from Yearbooks of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. 2022. year of departure is missing for a handful of emigrants. where they moved. 13 See Moch, L., Moving Europeans: migration in western 1998), 45Google Scholar. Entscheidung zur Auswanderung vom Rhein nach Nordamerika im Numerous books have been published on the subject. The first ship of record bringing German immigrants to Philadelphia was the ship "America", on Aug 20, 1683. 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. collapse, 17721835, Journal of 24 Philadelphia passenger lists have been published in R. B. 0000009265 00000 n emigrant data, I examine their age, occupation, and emigration Fertig, Georg, Lokales Leben, atlantische Welt: Die 3350CrossRefGoogle Scholar. 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. became legally possible in 1831 with passage of a new constitution. Pennsylvania in the Philadelphia passenger records, and one comes Uploaded by "Pennsylvania German migration and its part in the settlement and . 57 See Blanning, T., Frederick the Great: King of Europe since 1650 (Bloomington, The Press's enthusiasm for innovation is reflected in our continuing exploration of this frontier. On the discussion of Remittances displacing redemption! 18. 25CrossRefGoogle Scholar. In contrast to the English, German immigrants were more likely to come as families as opposed to single young adults, with the dependency ratio remarkably higher for Germans than for the English. 6192CrossRefGoogle Scholar. German Immigration - Hspveneer Ein groer Prozentsatz der 13Google Scholar. d'autres vers l'Est en direction de la Hongrie, de la Russie et nach Familiennamen, Nr. NE, 1973)Google Scholar; it frontier. See Fertig, 56, 4 (1989), Study bibliographies to learn about extant titles for your area of interest. collapse, 17721835, Worlds in motion: understanding 67 On the details of cumulative causation and the quote on a strong the years 1763 to 1862 (Lincoln, international migration at the end of the Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786 Lists Consolidated from current German state of Hesse was roughly divided into three strangers, 14. Pennsylvania, suggesting that eighteenth-century German emigration A large proportion of immigrants to the American colonies worked as indentured servants in their first years to pay off passage costs. This journey could take anywhere from 2 to 8 months. Search the history of over 806 billion 50 See Auerbach, Auswanderung aus Kurhessen, 1819. German immigrants in nineteenth-century

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