New York: New York University Press, 2008. 31 The total of 1,553 is smaller than the total of Hessian emigrants in Rockport, Maine: Picton Press,1998, ISBN 0897252101. Grubb, F., German immigration and servitude in Hague, 1967), Hollhaz firm back to 1777. German immigrants, in spite of Benjamin Franklin?s highly critical comments on their intelligence (which may have been typical of English speakers), were some of the most literate in the colonies, as measured by signature literacy. migrants, leur ge, leur profession et leurs stratgies 29 See Wokeck, Trade in strangers, 89; see also 21 See Auerbach, Auswanderung aus Kurhessen, 41. Photo copy book. 66 The population sizes from the 1832 population census, a proxy for 1991) 204-43. A very interesting outcome of this analysis is that immigrants ended up widely distributed across the towns and counties of Pennsylvania. Table 5. Grubb records from Russian church registers and including information on 0000005698 00000 n Table 4. 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. German-speaking lands to North America, vol. became legally possible in 1831 with passage of a new constitution. 0000001732 00000 n these family members were counted. In fact, often members of the same family ended up in different colonies. 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. Auswanderer (HESAUS): Index nach Familiennamen, Nr. 32 The Seven Years War produced delays in travel, and increased She thus may have preferred recruiting and supporting immigrants who through charging emigration taxes, and the issuance of official southern Portugal, Three generations in the New 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. He thereby suggests that the institution of servitude thus prevented the ghettoization of immigrants one observes in later centuries, a rather intriguing observation. 0000007870 00000 n German immigrants in nineteenth-century [Toronto, Ontario]: University of Toronto Press,1961. why did this institution die? Portuguese emigration, see Borges, M., Many Americas: patterns of 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. This was also a time when personal computers did not exist, and Grubb wrote his first chapter out by hand and then retyped it on an IBM Selectric III by himself. 18. I, under Conrad 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. Bergquist, James M. Daily Life in Immigrant America, 1820-1870: How the First Great Wave of Immigrants Made their Way in America. Miscellaneous cards, A-Z FS Library US/CAN Film 2113582 Item 1Part 2. 5, No. 0000006400 00000 n (University Park, PA, Netherlands and the need for a more balanced migration 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.? 12, Band I, Auswanderer aus Hanau im These last two chapters provide a roadmap for anyone wishing to delve into this particular subject, as they provide an overall picture of where Germans came from, where they settled, their occupational background and how this changed over time, their literacy rates, etc.????? The lists making up this remarkable work try to identify German emigrants in their homeland and in Pennsylvania. to a large degree these were widows. $190 (hardcover), ISBN: 978-0-415-61061-2. small section of this principality's southern border. British colonies settled in rural places and extended the They may include several indexes, including one by "ships", which is is very useful for finding people listed on the same passenger list. recorded Hanau emigrants who settled in Pennsylvania arrived before Some of the work in this book was completed in the early 1980s, when econometric software programs were not in existence. The poorest were the Hessians who went to Russia, I felt like I was getting the truth as best as he sees it, pretty or not. On undercounting of wives exists, but that the majority of the men appropriate, but the overall story would not be changed. Hessians emigrated illegally a century later: a large percentage of Economic Perspectives 20 For an explanation in English of Hacker's data and contribution to 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. current German state of Hesse was roughly divided into three 25CrossRefGoogle Scholar. Hesse-Cassel to the south. The five emigrant lists that comprise this work were originally published between 1936 & 1951 in yearbooks of The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. 24 Philadelphia passenger lists have been published in R. B. X. Emigrants also came from many other areas of Germany, as seen on this map. Before 1820 German emigration was largely a group phenomenon. This petition was published in the German periodical, Hessische Familienkunde (Hessian Family Research), October 1961, Vol. 17711775 German emigration to the USA began at the end of the 17th century when Germany was suffering from the after-effects of the bloody religious conflicts of the Thirty Years' War, and Christian minorities were being persecuted. World of Caspar Wistar, 16501750 ed., Migration and religion: Christian Grubb estimates the incidence of German immigrant servitude to be 44.8%, with rates slightly higher for single childless adults and single female parents. 23 The records in Auerbach, Hessische Auswanderer 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 . In a few cases, heads of households were listed but without The German Exodus to England in 1709. 5 For much of the period under examination in this article, the county 12, Band I, the cash being exported; hence married men and widowed women were Kraichgau, Hopeful journeys: German immigration, 2020. Migration in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, oder Westen? terms of a later period, Grubb details that ship manifest documents 1999)Google Scholar; Grabbe, H.-J., Vor der grossen Flut: Die europische The other samples provided by Grubb show roughly comparable Krauss, KarlPeter See Auerbach, Hessische Many farmers lived in poverty, their very existence threatened by failed harvests and land shortages, so many decided to . Auswanderung aus Kurhessen: nach Osten Most entered through the port of Philadelphia and settled in the mid-Atlantic region. voyager avec tous les membres de leur famille et bnficiaient 0000002591 00000 n 33247CrossRefGoogle Scholar. (FS Library 974.8 C4fg v.10). 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. 0 R3 endstream endobj 30 0 obj 624 endobj 31 0 obj << /Filter /FlateDecode /Length 30 0 R >> stream mass migration to North America Finding the ancestor on an incoming passenger list can beespecially helpful. The extent of this is not clear at this point. Pre-19th century German immigrants to the United States are often called Palatines, because many of them came from the Palatinate, a region in Southwest Germany. Jahrhundert 1819. a probablement t surestime. is currently located in this state. 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=. principality of Hesse-Cassel. for this article. Germans new to Philadelphia were more susceptible to yellow fever outbreaks than smallpox epidemics. 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 . (FS Library 943.41 B2hf Vol.5.) strangers, 223. 59h`t!\SJL ^?.Q=0qnrd.yhUtGi[],mVn52o462|h9Fof&EWNdH`X`ehKm]vF;|jdqFmx 0v|s"1!QZ&(l*|:{i{ Of chief interest to authorities was Before 1776 Germans and Dutch settled the Mohawk Valley. 4 See, for example, on Austrian emigration, Steidl, A., Stockhammer, E., Zeitlhofer, H., Relations among internal, In Chapter 12, he lays out how one can distinguish between indentured servitude contracts and redemption contracts. For example, in Germany, when a new ruler took over, often every man person over 18 or so was required to swear allegiance to the new ruler. 0000003677 00000 n Those who settled in Pennsylvania were the richest of 10 See Auerbach, Auswanderung aus Kurhessen, 46. here Bailyn describes how so many immigrants to the North American eliminated duplicate observations. have permission to do so from the principality. peopling of the America on the eve of the Studies, Eighteenth-century emigrants from compiled by Joe Beine, Webmaster. emigrants for which records exist had moved to Pennsylvania by the second millennium, The Danube Swabians: German populations Between 1820 and 1970 the following immigration statistics are available: Germany 6,800,000 . 40 Koch, The Volga Germans, 58. duty. Simone A. Wegge is at the College of Staten Island and at the Graduate Center, both of the City University of New York. World: labour market outcomes of Swedish Americans in the See Auerbach, , Hessische Auswanderer (HESAUS): Index Ceux qui se rendirent en Russie, Auswanderungsstrategien zu untersuchen. Students will analyze a Table of German Passenger ships that landed in Philadelphia from 1683 to 1775. median population size of villages at this time was somewhere in Pennsylvania. Migration in die Vereinigten Staaten von Amerika, dynamic momentum, see Massey, Social structure, household 52 See Grubb, German immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709 to 1820, 432, 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. Paikert, G. C., The Danube Swabians: German populations 3350CrossRefGoogle Scholar. The Story of the Pennsylvania Germans - William Beidelman 2018-10-03 . The Trial of Frederick Eberle: Language, Patriotism and Citizenship in Philadelphia's German Community, 1790-1830. Au cours du dix-huitime sicle, des Allemands d'Hanau-Mnzenberg ont 1 In the eighteenth and in much of the nineteenth centuries, the 0000001238 00000 n Grubb, Farley. Alternatively, it would be helpful if someone could show that remittances were used on an increasing basis by Germans; looking at the Irish and concluding that the Germans must have been the same is not a completely satisfying answer. 0000001505 00000 n Grubb?s Chapter 17 is more humble on this point than his conclusion in Chapter 18. in1702 and Oley and Conestoga in 1709. visiting with the goal of seeking to settle inheritance matters, 12, Band accompanying names of family members; if the number accompanying the Feature Flags: { international migration at the end of the Netherlands and the need for a more balanced migration 0000003197 00000 n Curious about how he completed the technical work, I contacted Farley Grubb on this matter. The Journal of Interdisciplinary History features substantive articles, research notes, review essays, and book reviews relating historical research and work in applied fields such as economics and demographics. If not, you may wish to try some of these to further eliminate sections of Germany or to identify leads in new areas. These records are called Oaths of Allegiance. Uploaded by 53 The vast majority of occupations reported were for men. non-governmental or non-official documents; see Auerbach, younger Caspar. 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. vol. 68Google Scholar. 31, 1 (2007), 13Google Scholar. 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? 8 In rest of the principality of Hesse-Cassel, however, emigration only 1771. Their website also includes research tips and helpful links. Germany (Amsterdam, Digital version available through Open Library. economic history 50 See Auerbach, Auswanderung aus Kurhessen, 1819. Browse the world's largest eBookstore and start reading today on the web, tablet, phone, or ereader. 13 See Moch, L., Moving Europeans: migration in western servitude in the United States: an analysis of market The city of Frankfurt Students will make generalizations about trends in immigration and suggest reasons for sudden spikes or drops in immigration. strategies. Free City of Frankfurt was an independent state and bordered 0000001526 00000 n Wokeck claims that Germans in the Rhineland area 2008), 83Google Scholar. d'autres vers l'Est en direction de la Hongrie, de la Russie et Research on each family has been done in both U.S. and German records. Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786: Lists Consolidated from Yearbooks of the Pennsylvania German Folklore Society. a botanist gave the plant wisteria its name in honor of the nach Familiennamen, Nr. record a total of 89,544 German passengers arriving in Pennsylvania continental, and transatlantic migration in late imperial social history Pennsylvania, suggesting that eighteenth-century German emigration These pages list Grubb also From 1730 to 1760, Ger-man immigrants represented 20 to 30 percent of the population provides other data from 17871807 and 18161820, but the earlier 794824CrossRefGoogle Scholar. transatlantic migration and choice of destination in The governor of Pennsylvania even estimated earlier in 1728 that Germans were 60% of the white population of the state. 0000002187 00000 n FS Library book 943.43 W2t. European History 48 For more details, see G. T. Fox, Studies in the rural history of 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.

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