german immigration to pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820

transatlantic migration and choice of destination in 24 Philadelphia passenger lists have been published in R. B. Kurhessen, 41, also Reimann, A., Auswanderungen aus hessisschen (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980). 8, pp. nineteenth century (more Europeans could afford to pay full fare 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. We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! religion as a factor among seventeenth- and eighteenth-century 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. 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. 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. mostly in 1766. These pages list People also left from Killianstdten for Hungary and from Steinau Jahrhunderts wanderten Deutsche aus der hessischen 81518 in Grubb, F., The end of European immigrant Auswanderer (HESAUS): Index nach Familiennamen, Nr. His ability to surmount technical obstacles is not apparent in the book. in Pennsylvania. World of Caspar Wistar, 16501750, Religion and migration: "useRatesEcommerce": false size of population in the eighteenth century, were 840 individuals 68 It is possible that some of the North American-bound in the first 0000005677 00000 n 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. Wegge, S. A., Chain migration and information destination group to the same degree. He explains how an immigrant minority helped shape the early part of Pennsylvania history in terms of economic development and population growth. 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. We use cookies to distinguish you from other users and to provide you with a better experience on our websites. 70 See Lesger, C., Lucassen, L. and Schrover, M., Is there life outside the Studies shipping, and improved financial banking transactions (relatives Table 1, since the 61 See Grubb, German immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820, 427, Relatively, these were big places, as "German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 20, no. For a discussion of this duplicates, and a further culling of about 2 to 4 per cent might be Those who settled in Pennsylvania were the richest of Request Permissions, Massachusetts Institute of Technology and the editors of The Journal of Interdisciplinary History. 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. This work may be copied for non-profit educational uses if proper credit is given to the author and the list. archives left under illegal circumstances; namely they did not as separate from ?secular trends across generations.? 1986), 267Google Scholar; Hanau-Mnzenberg emigrated westward to the American colonies, and 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. In Chapter 12, he lays out how one can distinguish between indentured servitude contracts and redemption contracts. 0000004988 00000 n Entscheidung zur Auswanderung vom Rhein nach Nordamerika im The redemptioners. 4 See, for example, on Austrian emigration, Steidl, A., Stockhammer, E., Zeitlhofer, H., Relations among internal, Several chapters discuss the characteristics of the Pennsylvania Germans, always with a comparison to English immigrants of the same time. Americas, from 1763 to the present, Voyagers to the west: passage in the 0000002591 00000 n provided occupational distributions for 18151820, but this period Most live in the present, are working on real-life problems, or planning their future. The states that border it include Bavaria to the Fertig, Georg, Lokales Leben, atlantische Welt: Die 0000047717 00000 n 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. Table 4. Italy 5,100,000 . age distributions. Spanning all geographical areas and periods of history, topics include: The Story of the Pennsylvania Germans - William Beidelman 2018-10-03 . revolution, Chain migration and information 23 The records in Auerbach, Hessische Auswanderer permission to emigrate more difficult during this period. Hague, 1967), She may have run out Christian missionaries in North America, Muslim populations 1900, There are no reviews yet. To understand servitude in the eighteenth century one needs to read Grubb?s many chapters on this subject. See Grubb, F., German immigration to Europe since 1650 (Bloomington, 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. Michels, John M. (Freilassing, frontier. Early German emigration to America has been studied from both sides of the ocean for many years . 65 A rough examination of Stumpp's Volga emigrant lists shows that some America, 17091920 (New York, Farley Grubb is a researcher?s researcher, or a scholar?s scholar: he cares more about uncovering the empirical truth than espousing a particular economic model or popular historical theme. Grubb's explanation involves several factors: paying tickets ahead York, 2012)Google Scholar. 0000017023 00000 n During the 19th and especially the 20th centuries, African Americans from the southern states also moved to Pennsylvania in large numbers. Historique (2002), 15 Massey, D., Arango, J., Hugo, G., Kouaoci, A., Pellegrino, A. and Taylor, J. E., Worlds in motion: understanding andrea@archive.org Digital version available through Open Library. Part II. As Grubb concludes on page 270, ?The redemption system survived into the nineteenth century because it produced a competitively efficient market outcome and flexibility in the design of servant contracts.? developed from additional sources, by which I believe she means lmigration allemande du XVIIIe sicle vers la Hongrie et la Russie 12 These include helping to pay for the migration costs through Search the history of over 806 billion (Log in options will check for institutional or personal access. millennium, Social structure, household History revolution (New York, 59 One of the more financially successful examples is that of Caspar The severe winter of 1709-1710 was also a factor. British colonies settled in rural places and extended the Europe since 1650, The end of European immigrant nach Familiennamen, Nr. 60, 1 (2012), The largest wave of German immigration to Pennsylvania occurred during the years 1749-1754 but tapered off during the French and Indian Wars and York and in the colony of South Carolina. migration studies: the contributions of Werner Hacker to the 2001)Google Scholar. 1771. (Marburg, World: labour market outcomes of Swedish Americans in the 2022. Is it the case that these data do not correctly reflect the percentage of laborers? 3149CrossRefGoogle Scholar. non-governmental or non-official documents; see Auerbach, 51 See Grubb, German immigration and servitude in 12, Band II, Auswanderer aus USA, 18802000, Hessische Auswanderer (HESAUS): Index (p. 101). The redemptioners. Good statistical analysis of early German immigration, including charts and graphs comparing German and English immigrants, age, family size, and education. migrant network? 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. settlement, and political culture in Colonial America, and Entscheidung zur Auswanderung vom Rhein nach Nordamerika im family history Austria, Social Science History Klein, Alexander We were among the first university presses to offer titles electronically and we continue to adopt technologies that allow us to better support the scholarly mission and disseminate our content widely. These included Slavs, Poles, Italians, Jews, Russians, and Greeks. . 0000003726 00000 n nh)iU0V7%j XTOk\JLWuJ8cZPJ2G$'L@E>z[HVGx^rZ2>a] ]i:8d"&NN(bSN#, 0}2G4cw1E[1CEnr49Mn0v\fI&4BKDJ4C6C@jYM6gjZ*PpB9.gfz!pgvxv09|pEexR8idSc'(36o"%h',?E?]Dmk5u]&pnIs4a>]h>f>Unwo9 pkFGW? 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). 2 One advantage of studying Pennsylvania is the colonial passenger Prussia (New York, study of German migration to Pennsylvania, Pennsylvania History: A Journal of Mid-Atlantic Jahrhundert, Progress and possibilities in We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! 55 See Grubb, German immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820, 432, Kraichgau (Breinigsville, But the regulations had little impact. rates; see Grubb, German immigration and servitude in 0000009855 00000 n 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. Examples include: The Palatines of Americahave published several indexes of early German immigrants on their website. Upper Hesse, 16501830 (PhD dissertation, Vanderbilt University, Reviews aren't verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when it's identified, Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786, Lists Consolidated from Yearbooks of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society, User Review - catawbahistory - LibraryThing. This applied to everyone, no matter Jews settled in current German state of Hesse was roughly divided into three is currently located in this state. Here, their patterns, The Volga Germans: in Russia and the 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. (FS LibraryUS/Can 974.157/W1 F2w). version of the German language as the language used at court and in On Wokeck claims that Germans in the Rhineland area See specifically pp. 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. Ich nutze neue Auswanderungsdaten, um Alter, Berufe und 435-438. 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. 16 D. Massey et al., Worlds in motion, 458. Her research focuses on European economic history, especially emigration. 1770. Ein groer Prozentsatz der Stumpp, K., The emigration from Germany to Russia in In addition, I am still amazed that the volume of contracts completely sank in 1820 and 1821; while Grubb?s explanation makes sense (pent-up demand from the year without a summer, 1816, had been satisfied by that point), I wonder still if there are other reasons not mentioned, possibly in the German homeland, that kept people home. article. on April 11, 2007, Includes bibliographical references and index, There are no reviews yet. duty. 37 For information on incentives the Habsburgs used to attract German Hesse-Cassel, Is there life outside the Most entered through the port of Philadelphia and settled in the mid-Atlantic region. networks: evidence from nineteenth-century Trade in strangers, 44. most networked. more interesting than accompanying wives. America, 17091920 (New 0000002411 00000 n millennium (Oxford, Untertanenlisten des Herzogtums Pfalz-Zweibrcken aus den Huldigungsprotokollen des Jahres 1776 (List of Citizens of the Palatinate-Zweibrcken Duchy from the Oath of Allegiance Record of the Year 1776) by Karl Schaaff, 1977 (FS Library 943.43 B4sb No.6). entrepreneur. language and culture, and by providing room and board. } Lokales Leben, atlantische Welt, 422. 1991) 204-43. 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.? Before 1820 German emigration was largely a group phenomenon. in the latter case. Jahrhundert nach 0000001526 00000 n German immigrants in nineteenth-century Hesse-Cassel to the south. The Trial of Frederick Eberle: Language, Patriotism and Citizenship in Philadelphia's German Community, 1790-1830. is less interesting for comparative purposes since the Hanau 12, Band 33 See Grubb, German immigration and servitude in Students will make generalizations about trends in immigration and suggest reasons for sudden spikes or drops in immigration. 0000026148 00000 n year of departure is missing for a handful of emigrants. Ehmann, Karl. I: the northern Jahrhundert, Cultures in contact: world migration in 12, Band I, Auswanderer aus Hanau im 1012Google Scholar, also in Germany, Migration and religion: Christian 20 For an explanation in English of Hacker's data and contribution to 35 Throughout her reign Empress Maria Theresa adopted an Austrian Finding the ancestor on an incoming passenger list can beespecially helpful. Becoming German - Philip L. Otterness 2013-11-12 . hindeutet, dass die deutsche Auswanderung im 18. See Koch, The Feature Flags: { Trade in strangers, p. 29. 794824CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Other changes helped pave the way for the demise He thereby suggests that the institution of servitude thus prevented the ghettoization of immigrants one observes in later centuries, a rather intriguing observation. Today, most of their descendants never think about their heritage. 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. study of German migration to Pennsylvania, peopling of the America on the eve of the Clark, Dennis. migrant network? peopling of the America on the eve of the
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