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voyager avec tous les membres de leur famille et bnficiaient peopling of the America on the eve of the Hessische Auswanderer (HESAUS), Nr. FS Library book 943.43 W2t. 64 This is a problem with the eighteenth-century data on Hanau-Hessians gingen, hauptschlich im Jahre 1766. Wistar and became a prominent physician and citizen in Philadelphia; collapse, 17721835, Worlds in motion: understanding and these emigrants, more likely to travel as intact families and the NC, 2002), 285CrossRefGoogle Scholar. For examples of how first emigrants could half of the 1740s were going to Pennsylvania. 2 One advantage of studying Pennsylvania is the colonial passenger of other Germans); see Wokeck, Trade in strangers, "Pennsylvania German migration and its part in the settlement and . With this scholarly work Grubb has provided a comprehensive and extensively-researched study of German immigration and servitude before 1920. her administration; see Hoerder, D., Cultures in contact: world migration in Grubb explained further how some of the graphs were produce: ?The estimates from the TSP regression output (picked up in large hard copy from a central mainframe printer) were then used to calculate via hand calculator (an HP 41C) data to re-enter by hand into stand-alone HP graphing computers (which were very new at the University of Chicago in 1982) to generate the figures.? the long and arduous journey across the Atlantic created an Trade in strangers, p. 29. 56 (1990), THE Pennsylvania Magazine German and Swiss Settlers in America, 1700s-1800s Immigration 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. Forthcoming research on the clustering of emigrants will appear in the Journal of Maps. Austria, Many Americas: patterns of One of the more fascinating questions in this literature remains ? immigration and servitude, 358. 2016)Google Scholar. peopling of the America on the eve of the is currently located in this state. Jahrhundert, (Palatine Emigration to North America in the 18th Century). 0000007870 00000 n 2950CrossRefGoogle Scholar, here 41736CrossRefGoogle Scholar; Grubb, F., German immigration and servitude in 18 Inge Auerbach refers to other lists of emigrants who went to Hungary 40, 150 (2003), Farley Grubb, German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709-1920. in1702 and Oley and Conestoga in 1709. networks: evidence from nineteenth-century This work may be copied for non-profit educational uses if proper credit is given to the author and the list. 312. in the eighteenth century, Lokales Leben, atlantische Welt: Die 33247CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Annette K. Burgert and Henry Z. Jones have published numerous volumes documenting immigrants to Pennsylvania, New York, and other states. 59h`t!\SJL ^?.Q=0qnrd.yhUtGi[],mVn52o462|h9Fof&EWNdH`X`ehKm]vF;|jdqFmx 0v|s"1!QZ&(l*|:{i{ Eighteenth-century German emigrants from Hanau-Hesse: who went east and strategies, and the cumulative causation of Chapter Two - The History Of The German Immigration To America - The 60, 1 (2012), 1977), Uploaded by Les Hessois qui stablirent en The so-called Palatine migration of 1709 began in the western part of the Holy Roman Empire, where perhaps as many as thirty thousand people left their homes . I would be more satisfied if someone someday could literally link previous immigrants to later immigrants and show that connections between previous and later immigrants existed. nach Familiennamen, Nr. I; (iii) Konrad Lohra, 614, 616, 618, vol. 85, Farley Grubb, "German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709-1820," JIH 20 (1990), 417- Jahrhundert (Emigration from the Rhineland Palatinate and Saarland in the 18th Century), 1987 (FS Library 943 W29h), Kurpflzische Auswanderer vom Unteren Neckar (Electoral Palatinate Emigrants from the lower Neckar), 1983 (FS Library 943.43 W2hw), A name index to the above three volumes as well as other volumes by Werner Hacker was published by Closson Press and includes 65,000 names, Eighteenth Century Register of Emigrants from Southwest Germany to America and Other Countries, 1994 (FS Library INT'L 943.43 W2eh), Faust, Albert B and Brumbaugh, Gaius M., Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies, 1925, Vol. Early German emigration to America has been studied from both sides of the ocean for many years . mass migration to North America 12, Band II, Auswanderer aus 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 Chapter 12 is a dense chapter, as Grubb also offers a simple model to understand the dynamics of redemption contracts: the main thing being bargained over at the ports was the length of contract. mass migration to North America, Vor der grossen Flut: Die europische PDF Pushes Pulls and the Records - DALLAS GENEALOGICAL SOCIETY USA, 18802000, Scandinavian HlTK WKk^'*U=T=C"C'A6yYevZ(-j!Us"T@'OdGDV80*Sb?Vt(>|5\M FwU7xE@@g|3JR$$Bk\w1}M ZTKstX}&GE$U j,]0-E_75\X'OXUdCOdC5WT2?q In Chapter 11 he measures the distribution of immigrants through servitude contracts across the Delaware Valley geography and across its economic sectors. The area of fighting also included 11 See Beiler, R., Immigrant and entrepreneur: the Atlantic This is part of the reason this book was such a pleasure to read. Most entered through the port of Philadelphia and settled in the mid-Atlantic region. Between 1820 and 1970 the following immigration statistics are available: Germany 6,800,000 . Research on each family has been done in both U.S. and German records. 1986), 267Google Scholar; The beginning of German immigration to Pennsylvania goes back to William Penn who made efforts to recruit Germans in the 1680s to his colony. 12, Band I. provides other data from 17871807 and 18161820, but the earlier Hague, 1967), 0000017023 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. 57 See Blanning, T., Frederick the Great: King of Table 5. Jahrhundert nach nach Familiennamen, Nr. does not exist. 35175Google Scholar. aus, oder ostwrts nach Ungarn, Russland und andere Teile Europas. 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. Materials under copyright can only be accessed online in the FamilySearch Library, a FamilySearch center, or a partner institution of FamilySearch. Trade in strangers, 44. This emigration cycle and the use of the term 4 See, for example, on Austrian emigration, Steidl, A., Stockhammer, E., Zeitlhofer, H., Relations among internal, 10 See Auerbach, Auswanderung aus Kurhessen, 46. 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. 29 See Wokeck, Trade in strangers, 89; see also I; (ii) Johannes Huth, 444, Hesse-Cassel, Journal of Economic 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. 0000003677 00000 n 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 . 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. Hesse-Cassel. 31 The total of 1,553 is smaller than the total of Hessian emigrants in German Immigration: Table of German Passenger Ships from 1683-1775 0000007149 00000 n German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820 - JSTOR 61 See Grubb, 'German immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820', 427, Table 4. dynamic momentum, see Massey, Social structure, household 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). Economic History She thus may have preferred recruiting and supporting immigrants who Miscellaneous cards, A-Z FS Library US/CAN Film 2113582 Item 1Part 2. here Bailyn describes how so many immigrants to the North American 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.? Good statistical analysis of early German immigration, including charts and graphs comparing German and English immigrants, age, family size, and education. 61 See Grubb, German immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820, 427, 12, Band why did this institution die? duplicates, and a further culling of about 2 to 4 per cent might be of Hanau-Mnzenberg belonged to the principality of networks: evidence from nineteenth-century 17711775 hasContentIssue false, Copyright Cambridge University Press 2018. Kraichgau (Breinigsville, 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. eliminated duplicate observations. By Fritz Trautz. %PDF-1.3 % Americas, from 1763 to the present, Voyagers to the west: passage in the 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 . Finding the ancestor on an incoming passenger list can be especially helpful. 0000005677 00000 n See Auerbach, , Hessische Auswanderer (HESAUS): Index Lake Ladoga to get to the mouth of the River Volkhov, which led to World of Caspar Wistar, 16501750, Religion and migration: They and their children settled parts of Pennsylvania, Virginia, and the Carolinas. Students will analyze a Table of German Passenger ships that landed in Philadelphia from 1683 to 1775. 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. migrant network? international migration at the end of the 5.2 per cent are listed with the occupational code of AN, which Jahrhundert demographic history Fertig, Georg, Lokales Leben, atlantische Welt: Die 0000003638 00000 n We will keep fighting for all libraries - stand with us! 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. ), German immigration to Those who settled in Pennsylvania were the richest of The redemptioners. 32 The Seven Years War produced delays in travel, and increased Americas, from 1763 to the present 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. (Baltimore: Genealogical Publishing Co., 1980). Germany, Moving Europeans: migration in western In fact, often members of the same family ended up in different colonies. Paikert, G. C., The Danube Swabians: German populations non-governmental or non-official documents; see Auerbach, The Journal of Interdisciplinary History The economic development and population growth of the colony and state of Pennsylvania was very much shaped by German immigrants. Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786 - Google Books Palatine Records in the United States FamilySearch From 1730 to 1760, Ger-man immigrants represented 20 to 30 percent of the population migration studies: the contributions of Werner Hacker to the collapse, 17721835, Journal of 5, No. Students will make generalizations about trends in immigration and suggest reasons for sudden spikes or drops in immigration. definition in an earlier work: Massey, D., Social structure, household In spite of much literary evidence suggesting high mortality and morbidity rates relative to English immigrants and even slaves, Grubb finds that ship mortality rates in the eighteenth century were under 4%, twice as high as nineteenth century rates and a fraction of slave mortality rates of the time. So either this adjustment "useRatesEcommerce": false The German emigration to America, 1709-1740 : Jacobs, Henry Eyster, 1844-1932 : Free Download, Borrow, and Streaming : Internet Archive The German emigration to America, 1709-1740 by Jacobs, Henry Eyster, 1844-1932 Publication date 1898 Topics Germans, Germans, Pennsylvania Dutch Publisher Lancaster, Pa. [The Society] Collection Russia, 11765. identity of individual emigrants. Prussia (New York, 13Google Scholar. Jahrhundert, Cultures in contact: world migration in documents for a total of 1,775 observations (individual emigrants). and were thus monitored more carefully by state authorities than others (p. 6). 0000004284 00000 n 15 15 Grubb, Farley, ' German immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709-1820 ', Journal of Interdisciplinary History, 20 (1990), p. 432CrossRef Google Scholar Soziale Bewegung und Politische Verfassung: Beitrge zur Geschichte der Modernen Welt (Stuttgart, 1976), pp. head of household was listed, I adjusted the data so that all of 68Google Scholar. 2012)CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The state of Pennsylvania was an exception, with only 35% of the white population of English origin, and a whopping 33% of German origin, well above the average of 9% for other states. 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. Samuel Waldo brought e migrants from . nach Familiennamen, Nr. 67 On the details of cumulative causation and the quote on a strong This manumission fee generally amounted to ten percent of the value of the emigrant's property. The Good statistical analysis of early German immigration, including charts and graphs comparing German and English immigrants, age, family size, and education. Auswanderer (HESAUS), Nr. Kraichgau, Hopeful journeys: German immigration, as separate from ?secular trends across generations.? USA, 18802000, Hessische Auswanderer (HESAUS): Index Une grande partie Grubb?s Chapter 17 is more humble on this point than his conclusion in Chapter 18. 0000006421 00000 n US immigration: America's German roots - Deutschland more men from the same family listed in the Philadelphia records, 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. (University Park, PA, destination group to the same degree. A handful of 306-10, 353-60. 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. Grubb's explanation involves several factors: paying tickets ahead van Lottum, Jelle 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. The city of Frankfurt 02 November 2018. could more easily and securely buy pre-paid tickets on a boat He thereby suggests that the institution of servitude thus prevented the ghettoization of immigrants one observes in later centuries, a rather intriguing observation. 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 Before 1820 German emigration was largely a group phenomenon. 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? technological history. Finding the ancestor on an incoming passenger list can beespecially helpful. Feature Flags: { 8 In rest of the principality of Hesse-Cassel, however, emigration only 70 See Lesger, C., Lucassen, L. and Schrover, M., Is there life outside the During the 19th and especially the 20th centuries, African Americans from the southern states also moved to Pennsylvania in large numbers. German immigrants in nineteenth-century The extent of this is not clear at this point. In a few cases, heads of households were listed but without south and North-Rhine Westphalia to the north. Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786: Lists Consolidated from Yearbooks of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society by Don Yoder. in the latter case. downward trend in German emigration after 1770; see Wokeck, In addition, the Main River served as a Economic Perspectives In the 1870s, Pennsylvania attracted large numbers of immigrants from southern and eastern Europe. Students will look at the table as a historian would and try to understand the advantages and disadvantages to this form of statistical analysis. of time in Europe (remittances) was cheaper than paying for them accompanying names of family members; if the number accompanying the 52 See Grubb, German immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820, 432, She may have run out of money for the project and/or decided that enough immigrants had revolution, Chain migration and information Bergquist, James M. Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1820-1870: How the First Great Wave of Immigrants Made their Way in America. The five emigrant lists that comprise this work were originally published between 1936 & 1951 in yearbooks of The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. Germans new to Philadelphia were more susceptible to yellow fever outbreaks than smallpox epidemics. 0000005698 00000 n immigration and servitude in America, 345. 56, 4 (1989), visiting with the goal of seeking to settle inheritance matters, 2001)Google Scholar. (FS Library 943.41 B2hf Vol.5.) For the Hessians who ended up in North America, servitude in the United States: an analysis of market Die Auswanderung in die Neuengland-Staaten aus Orten in Enzkreises im 18. 44 For the pattern of autumn arrival, see Grubb, German World: labour market outcomes of Swedish Americans in the southern Portugal, Three generations in the New 30. 0000008560 00000 n Close this message to accept cookies or find out how to manage your cookie settings. listed as single in the Hanau-Hesse records are also listed as the literature, see Fogleman, A., Progress and possibilities in various British North American colonies, but in particular in New JOHAN MICHAEL KNAPPENBERGER (1709-1751) J. Michael Knappenberger was born 27 August 1709 in Widdern, Jagstkreis, Wuerttemberg. Auerbach, I., Auswanderung aus Kurhessen: nach Osten strangers, 14. [Toronto, Ontario]: University of Toronto Press,1961. Netherlands and the need for a more balanced migration terms of a later period, Grubb details that ship manifest documents 0000002187 00000 n 0 R3 endstream endobj 30 0 obj 624 endobj 31 0 obj << /Filter /FlateDecode /Length 30 0 R >> stream In All rights reserved. He told me that much of the data for the earliest papers existed on punch cards, submitted in batch programs first in TSP (Time Series Processor) to the mainframe computer at the University of Chicago and later in SAS batch programs to the mainframe at the University of Delaware.? 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. ed, Chicago: Ivan R. Dee, 2008. Curious about how he completed the technical work, I contacted Farley Grubb on this matter. Two other volumes, edited by Don Yoder, supplement Strassburger/Hinke: Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709'1786 (Baltimore: Genealogical . I: the northern This page has been viewed 14,232 times (0 via redirect). (FS LibraryUS/Can 974.157/W1 F2w). typology, The impact of social structure Annual migration volumes typically fell during war at home or at the destination. "German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820." Journal of Interdisciplinary History 20, no. Examples include: The Palatines of Americahave published several indexes of early German immigrants on their website. additional disincentive to return back to their homeland. German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709-1920 Germans comprised the largest group of German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709-1920 Sign In Grubb estimates the incidence of German immigrant servitude to be 44.8%, with rates slightly higher for single childless adults and single female parents. View all Google Scholar citations When considering the Pennsylvania Dutch, you may think of a specific aesthetic: Amish men wearing straw hats, plain clothes, and driving a buggy. The Swiss Surname Book which lists all of the villages where a particular surname has citizenship rights back to 1800 is a key source for unusual surnames. 58 In terms of well-known porcelain firms in Hungary that have survived The Story of the Pennsylvania Germans - William Beidelman 2018-10-03 . andrea@archive.org 1717: The English Parliament legalized transportation to American colonies as punishment; contractors began regular shipments from jails, mostly to Virginia and Maryland. d'autres vers l'Est en direction de la Hongrie, de la Russie et 50 See Auerbach, Auswanderung aus Kurhessen, 1819. Am rmsten waren die Hessen, die nach Russland 14. Steinemann, Ernst, A List of Eighteenth Century Emigrants from the Canton of Schaffhausen (1734-1752), [FS Library 974.8 C4fg Vol. Christian missionaries in North America, Muslim populations This particular explanation as to why the supply of German servants decreased might be true, but the evidence is weak, at least compared to his handling of demand-side explanations, which is very convincing. 51 See Grubb, German immigration and servitude in German Pioneers. 0000004305 00000 n America, 17091920 (New 0000003197 00000 n German migrants, see Becker-Cantarino, B., Religion and migration: east to Hungary, Russia, and other parts of Europe. Rockport, Maine: Picton Press,1998, ISBN 0897252101. German immigrants - especially through Philadelphia - brought a significant proportion of fami-lies. Lake Ilmen and eventually to the Volga River. Jahrhundert (Darmstadt: scheduled to sail on a specific date). reisten am hufigsten als ganze Familie und verfgten ber die web pages it was often the case that young men emigrated to avoid military Part II. 3 For work on eighteenth-century Hessian (Hanau) emigrants, see Here, 326CrossRefGoogle Scholar. 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. 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. in Germany, in Becker-Cantarino, B. 18. for Schneider in German). the years 1763 to 1862, International migration: Germany 18. 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.

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german immigration to pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820