Early German Settlers of York County, Pennsylvania
Early German Settlers of York County, Pennsylvania

Author: Keith A. Dull

Publisher:

Published: 2009-05

Total Pages: 420

ISBN-13:

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Additions and Corrections added. Traces the lineages of a large portion of the German families of York County, giving exhaustive coverage of the townships of Codorus, Dover, Manchester and Shrewsbury (as the boundaries were defined at the time of the 1762

Hopeful Journeys
Hopeful Journeys

Author: Aaron Spencer Fogleman

Publisher: University of Pennsylvania Press

Published: 2014-12-12

Total Pages: 272

ISBN-13: 0812291670

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In 1700, some 250,000 white and black inhabitants populated the thirteen American colonies, with the vast majority of whites either born in England or descended from English immigrants. By 1776, the non-Native American population had increased tenfold, and non-English Europeans and Africans dominated new immigration. Of all the European immigrant groups, the Germans may have been the largest. Aaron Spencer Fogleman has written the first comprehensive history of this eighteenth-century German settlement of North America. Utilizing a vast body of published and archival sources, many of them never before made accessible outside of Germany, Fogleman emphasizes the importance of German immigration to colonial America, the European context of the Germans' emigration, and the importance of networks to their success in America

German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709-1920
German Immigration and Servitude in America, 1709-1920

Author: Farley Grubb

Publisher: Routledge

Published: 2013-05-13

Total Pages: 456

ISBN-13: 1136682503

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This book provides the most comprehensive history of German migration to North America for the period 1709 to 1920 than has been done before. Employing state-of-the-art methodological and statistical techniques, the book has two objectives. First he explores how the recruitment and shipping markets for immigrants were set up, determining what the voyage was like in terms of the health outcomes for the passengers, and identifying the characteristics of the immigrants in terms of family, age, and occupational compositions and educational attainments. Secondly he details how immigrant servitude worked, by identifying how important it was to passenger financing, how shippers profited from carrying immigrant servants, how the labor auction treated immigrant servants, and when and why this method of financing passage to America came to an end.