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As the writers of this petition were themselves living in the Perkiomen valley, their statements are most natu- rally explained as referring primarily to this region.
These statements find a welcome confirmation in the old record book12 of the Dutch Reformed congregation, now at Churchville, Bucks County, Pa.
In this record it is stated13 that "on May 20th, in the year of our Lord Jesus Christ 1710, Mr. Paulus Van Vlecq was installed pastor or shepherd and teacher in the Church of Jesus Christ at Neshaminy, Bensalem, Germantown and surrounding villages." On June 4, 1710, the follow- ing consistory was installed at Whitemarsh: as elders, Hans Hendricks Meels and Evert ten Heuven, and as Review, Vol. XXIII (1876), pp. 529-541; also in the Ecclesiastical Records of the State of New York, Vol. IV, pp. 2425-2437, and in the Journal of the P. H. S., Vol. VI, pp. 303-316. In 1916, the writer published the whole Boehm Correspondence in Life and Letters of the Rev. John Philip Boehm, Philadelphia, Publication Board of the Reformed Church. In that book all the letters of Boehm, quoted below, are given in full.
12 This record was published by the writer in full in the Journal of the P. H. S., Vol. I, pp. 111-134.
13 See l. c., p. 118.
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deacons, Isaac Dilbeck and William de Wees. The mem- bers of the Whitemarsh congregation in 1710 were as fol- lows :14 Hans Hendrick Meels, Evert ten Heuven, Isaac Dilbeck, Willem de Wees, Jan Aweeg, Johannis Yodder, Antonie Geertheus [Yerkes], Johannes Raevenstock, Ger- trude Rembergh, Elisabeth Schipbower, wife of E. ten Heuven, Mary Bloemers, wife of I. Dilbeck, Catrina Meels, wife of W. de Wees, Gertrude Aweeg, Anna Baer- ents, wife of J. Pieterse, Maria Selle, wife of G. ten Heuven. On December 25, 1710, there were received by profession of faith : Sebastian Bartels and his wife Mary Hendricks and Caspar Staels. On March 31, 1711, were received : Elsa Schol, Sebilla Revenstock, wife of Henry Tibben and Margaret Bon, wife of Caspar Staels. In 1711 there were, therefore, 21 regular members of the congregation. The marriage and baptismal records of the congregation add a number of other names of persons, who may be called adherents of this first Reformed con- gregation of the province. They were: Herman ten Heuven, Peter Bon, Gabriel Schuyler, William Rembergh, Peter ten Heuven and Jacob Op de Graef. These were married by Dominie Van Vlecq, while he baptized the children of the following persons living at Skippack : Jacob Dilbeck, Cornelius De Wees, Gerhart ten Heuven, Arent Hendricks, Dirk Remberg, Hendricks Pannebacker, Jacob Pieterse, Rightijers Gaebel. In addition to the 21 regu- lar members there were, therefore, 14 Reformed adherents at Whitemarsh and Skippack from 1710-1712.
Of these first Reformed settlers in Pennsylvania Isaac Dilbeck came with Pastorius in 1683.15 In 1690 Gerrit
14 See l. c., p. 120.
15 Pennypacker, Settlement of Germantown, pp. 135, 190-192, 194; also Dotterer, Historical Notes, pp. 15-16, 23-26.
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Hendricks De Wees, probably the father of Willem De Wees, bought a lot of land in Germantown. In 1699 Evert ten Heuven, with his sons Herman, Gerhard and Peter, was a resident in Germantown, as was also Hen- drick Pannebecker. In 1700 Sebastian Bartels appears, in 1701 Hans Hendrik Meels, in 1702 John Rebenstock and Michael Remberg, with his sons Dirck and Willem, also Peter Bon and Henry Tibben, and 1703 Antoni Gerckes. Some of these settlers took up land at Skippack, Hendrick Pannebecker in 1702; Gerhard and Herman In de Heuven, also Dirck and Willem Remberg in 1706; William and Cornelius De Wees in 1708.
On September 29, 1709, the following Reformed set- tlers were naturalized by a bill passed in the Provincial Assembly and signed by the governor :16
Isaac Dilbeck and his son Jacob Dilbeck; Caspar Stalls and Henry Tubben; Johannes Rebenstock, Sebastion Bartells and his son Henry Bartells; Evert in Hoffe and his sons Gerhard, Her- man and Peter in Hoffe.
The ministry of Van Vlecq at Whitemarsh and Skippack continued from 1710 to 1713. On April 24, 1713, he en- tered his last wedding into the church record. On Sep- tember 21, 1710, Van Vlecq applied to the Presbytery of Philadelphia17 for admission. A committee was ap- pointed which considered his application and handed in a report, then "after serious debating thereon it was put to the vote, to admit him a member of the Presbytery or not, and it was carried in the affirmative." In 1712 the charge
16 Keyser, Kain, etc., History of Old Germantown (1907), Vol. I, p. 96. See also the paper on "Rev. Paulus Van Vlecq," by the writer, in the Papers read before the Bucks County Hist. Society, Vol. IV, pp. 688-702. 17 Records of the Presbyterian Church in the United States of America, Vol. I, pp. 17-40, for statements regarding Van Vlecq from 1710 to 1715.
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of bigamy was lodged against him, which, after thorough investigation, was sustained in 1713. He was, as a result, suspended from the ministry. In 1715 he is reported as having "run out of the country."
A much larger number of German Reformed people came into the province of Pennsylvania in the period be- between 1720 and 1730.
In a petition addressed by some members of the Phila- delphia Reformed Church to Governor Patrick Gordon, on November 23, 1732, they state :18
That a great number of Protestants born under the Ligeance of the Emperor of Germany did, about ten years since [1722], come into this Province, and having settled in divers parts thereof, but especially in the city of Philada., formed themselves into a Reli- gious Society, commonly called by the name of German Reformed Church.
The same statement is repeated and somewhat enlarged in a bill of complaint which the same persons submitted to the Court of Chancery of the Province on January 23, 1732 [-1733], in which they declared.19
The said deponents ... say that for above the space of ten years by gone, great numbers of the subjects of the emperor of Ger- many, professing the Protestant religion or as 't is equally called the Reformed religion and having suffered hardships in their native country upon the score of their religion, came over into the prov- ince of Pennsylvania and settled themselves in sundry parts of the sª. province and especially in Philadelphia.
In harmony with these statements we find in the
18 This petition is a part of the Reiff papers, printed in the Reformed Quarterly Review, 1893, Vol. XL, p. 59 f.
19 This bill of complaint belongs also to the Reiff papers, but it has not yet been printed. The original is in the Harbaugh collection of manu- scripts, now in the possession of Rev. Prof. J. I. Good.
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" Resolutions of the States of Holland and West Fries- land," that on June 12, 1722, the Raad Pensionaris (Prime Minister) reported to the States the arrival of a large number of families from Germany, which had come to Holland on various ships, with the intention of being transported to England, to be sent to one of the English Colonies, without any preparation having been made for their journey, or any invitation having been extended by the British government. He asked what steps should be taken. The States decided to confer with the authorities of the province nearest to Germany, to prevent the coming of any more emigrants.19ª
In the year 1725 John Philip Boehm began his minis- terial activity in the Perkiomen valley. For the first com- munion services, held in 1725, he reported20 the following members :
On October 15, 1725, at Falkner Swamp, 40 members or 24 males ;
In November, 1725, at Skippack, 37 members or 20 males;
On December 23, 1725, at Whitemarsh, 24 members or 14 males.
The totals for these three congregations were, there- fore, in 1725, 101 members or 58 males. These three congregations of Boehm continued the organization ef- fected by Paulus Van Vlecq in 1710, for of the latter's members we find Gabriel Schuler and Gerhart In de Heven
10a Taken from the Rotterdam Archives.
20 The number of males in 1725 is mentioned in the appeal of Boehm's elders to the Classis of Amsterdam, dated July, 1728, printed in the Jour- nal of the P. H. S., Vol. VI, p. 308. The number of members is found in Boehm's report of 1744, see Minutes and Letters of the Coetus of Pennsyl- vania, p. 18. See also Life and Letters of Boehm, pp. 160, 409.
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in Boehm's congregation at Skippack;21 Willem de Wees, John Rebenstock and Isaac Dilbeck in his congregation at Whitemarsh.22 If we had the complete lists of Boehm's IOI members we would no doubt be able to find other con- necting links besides the five mentioned above.
Such was the beginning of Reformed church life in the Perkiomen valley.
The time when the first Reformed settlers arrived in the Goshenhoppen region cannot be determined with the evi- dence at hand at present. But it was most probably about the year 1720. So much is certain that in 1727 enough Reformed people had arrived in Goshenhoppen, so that a communion service could be held for them.
In 1736 John Henry Goetschy, the boy preacher, en- tered the names of 45 heads of families into the Reformed record at New Goshenhoppen (see p. 274). Besides these there appear 68 additional names of men in the baptismal entries from 1731 to 1736 inclusive, so that there were at least 113 settlers, together with their families, in the New Goshenhoppen district by the end of the year 1736. With the help of Rupp's Immigrant Lists the exact time of the arrival of many of these settlers can be determined. The following is a list of those whom the writer was able to identify with some degree of probability :23
21 See the documents printed in the Journal of the P. H. S., Vol. VII, PP. 34, 48; also the letter from Skippack of May 10, 1730, quoted in His- torical Notes, p. 103.
22 These three men signed the appeal of July, 1728, see Journal of the P. H. S., Vol. VI, p. 316; as well as Boehm's letter of January 30, 1730, in Journal of P. H. S., Vol. VII, p. 34; Life and Letters of Boehm, pp. 169, 191.
23 In the case of very common names like Jacob Meyer and Jacob Müller the possibility of mistaken identity must of course remain open.
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EARLIEST REFORMED SETTLERS IN THE GOSHENHOPPEN VALLEY.
Names of Settlers.
Time of Arrival. At Goshenhoppen.
Johannes Huth . September 18, 1727 Go. 1731
Johann Friedrich Hilligass .September 18, 1727
Go. 1731
Hans Michel Zimmermann
. September 18, 1727 Go. 1733
Hans Georg Welcker
. September 18, 1727 Go. 1731
Ulrich Hetzell [Hertzel]
. September 18, 1727
Go. 1733
Benedict Strohm [Strome]
. September 18, 1727
Go. 1736
Frantz Stupp
.September 30, 1727
Go. 1731
Burckhard Hoffmann
September 30, 1727
Go. 1732
Johann Peter Hess
October 2, 1727
Go. 1733
Michel Eberhart
October 16, 1727
Go. 1732
Johann Philip Ried
October 16, 1727 Go. 1736
Wendel Wiant
August 29, 1729
Go. 1736
Johann Peter Moll
August 29, 1729
Go. 1733
Valentin Griesemer
August 29, 1730
Go. 1731
Thomas Hamma[n]
.August 29, 1730
Go. 1732
Abraham Transu
August 29, 1730
Go. 1731
Lönhart Hochgenug
August 29, 1730
Go. 1732
John Adam Stadtler
. September 5, 1730
Go. 1733
Johann Philip Emmert
. September 5, 1730
Go. 1731
Casper Holtzhausen [r]
August 17, 1731
Go. 1733
Abraham Sahler [Seler]
September 11, 1731
Go. 1732
Johann Bartel. Gucker [Kucker] .. September 11, 1731
Go. 1732
Johann Michel Moll
. September 11, 1731
Go. 1732
Christopher Moll
September 11, 1731
Go. 1733
Hans Adam Echelen [Euchelen]
. September 11, 1731
Go. 1731
Leonard Bock
September 21, 1731
Go. 1737
Jacob Meyer
September 21, 1731
Go. 1736
Hans Jerg Steger
August 11, 1732
Go. 1737
Adam Hillegas
August 11, 1732
Go. 1737
Georg Mertz
September 11, 1732
Go. 1736
Georg Palsgraff
. September 11, 1732
Go. 1736
Hans Steinmann September 19, 1732
Go. 1733
Jacob Müller
. September 19, 1732
Go. 1737
Lorentz Hartman September 19, 1732
Go. 1736
Andreas Lohr . September 19, 1732
Go. 1733
Johan Henrich Jung
. September 19, 1732
Go. 1736
Georg Peter Knecht
September 21, 1732
Go. 1737
Hans Leonhart Herzel
September 21, 1732
Go. 1737
Peter Matern
September 30, 1732 Go. 1734
Peter Raudenbusch
. September 30, 1732
Go. 1733
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Johannes Geiger September 30, 1732 Go. 1734 Georg Michel Favian [Fabion] October 11, 1732 Go. 1736
Joh. Jost Ohlwein September 18, 1733 Go. 1736
Here are more than forty German Reformed settlers the exact time of whose arrival can be fixed and who, some time between that date and their first appearance in the New Goshenhoppen record, moved into the Goshenhoppen region. The others, whose date of arrival is as yet un- known, did not necessarily come before 1727. They may have come through another harbor, or reached Goshen- hoppen by a circuitous route. For it is a significant fact that of the Lutheran settlers at Old Goshenhoppen only three came before the year 1730, Kilian Gauckler, who came to America in 1717, John George Weicker who ar- rived in 1724, and John Martin Deer in 1728. Of the rest, nearly thirty, only a few appear in the immigrant lists, although they all came, according to the Church Record, between 1732 and 1750. This proves that the absence of a name from the immigrant lists cannot be used as an argu- ment for or against the early arrival of that person. It must also be remembered that the immigrant lists are in- complete and that the names have in many instances been deciphered incorrectly.
Although the time of arrival of the earliest settlers cannot be established definitely, it is certain that the year 1727 is the first fixed point in the history of the Reformed Church in the Goshenhoppen region.
The Indian traditions, which gathered around the origin and meaning of the name Goshenhoppen are beautifully summed up in a poem of the Rev. Dr. C. Z. Weiser, which may fittingly be inserted here.23a
23a The writer owes this poem to the Rev. John B. Stoudt, who kindly transmitted it for publication.
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THE LEGEND OF GOSHENHOPPEN.
BY C. Z. WEISER.
Would you hear of Goshenhoppen,
What it means and where it hails from
Do not trust the pale-faced people, They are but of yesterday. 'Tis with them but speculation,
Guess work oozed from fever'd brainshop,
Like the webs from working spiders.
Now they have it "Que-se-ho-pen," Then they say it's " Coss-he-hop-pe,"
" Cos-she-hop-pa," says another,
" Cos-ha-ha-pin," writes a fourth one; " Cosh-a-hop-pa " -- " Gosh-e-hop-pa," Or, again, " Co-wis-se-hop-pen," Till at last it's " Gosh-en-hop-pen."
Who can tell in such a Babel, How to utter it correctly,
How to rightly shape its body,-
And divine its primal meaning ? We must trace it as a river, From its mouth back to its source spring ;
Trace and tail it up and backward, Through the periods and the ages- Till we find its secret rising.
Long before Great Brother Omas Came to own his forest domain, Had the Redman shared the country Into tracts and into districts, Measured it by strips of deer-skin ; Marked it out by trees and rivers, Or by hills and mountain ranges.
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Every tribe then had its domain, For to smoke and roam and hunt in; And each tribe its Sak-e-maker, He whose name stood for the region, He who owned and bargained for it.
Thus we know the great " Mough-ough-sin " Owned the land of " Pah-ke-ho-ma," Which is known and called Macungie, That was sold for two big blankets And four pairs of leather stockings, And four bottles of sweet cider.
When we read of " Guch-i-o-thon," And besides of "En-shok-hup-po," And at last of " Shak-a-hop-pa," Who were ancient Sak-e-makers, Great big Injuns-treaty makers. These three ancient Sak-e-makers Ruled the vale of Pah-ke-ho-ma, Ruled the fair Per-ki-o-men valley, Shak-a-hop-pa stood as chieftain Over all the Sak-e-makers, Since he grew a foot beyond them, And came nearer the Great Father.
Shak-a-hop-pa, the tall chieftain, Of the vale of Pah-ke-ho-ma, Sold and barter'd off his title For two hundred feet of wampun ; And for thirty feet of duffels ; For some sixty feet of mattress ; Thirty shirts and thirty kettles ; Shoes twelve pairs and thirty gimlets ; Sixty stockings, thirty scissors ; Thirty combs and thirty axes ; Thirty-one tobacco pouches ;
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Thirty small tobacco cases ;
Seven awls and thirty glasses ;
Thirty bars of lead and powder ;
Thirty pounds of lead that reddens ; Beads poured into three full papers ;
Thirty pairs of bells that rattle ;
Drawing knives one half a dozen;
And some eighteen caps with feathers;
And as many hoes and handles. This was the consideration,
Which Great Brother Omas tendered,
For the vale of Goshenhoppen,
To the ancient Sak-e-maker,
Shak-a-hop-pa, the BIG SMOKE PIPE.
CHAPTER I.
MINISTRY OF REV. GEORGE MICHAEL WEISS, 1727-1730.24
J N November, 1730, the Rev. John Philip Boehm wrote as follows to the Reformed Classis of Amsterdam :25
He [Mr. Weiss] preached at a branch place called Goschenhoppen, about ten miles from Falckner Schwam; the last time on October 12, 1727, he celebrated the Lord's Supper without knowing the people, admitting among others two men from Falckner Schwam, who ought to have been taken to account because of their vicious lives.
This passage gives us the first recorded date in the his- tory of the congregation. It names its first pastor and enables us to locate the first place of worship. It could not have been at Old Goshenhoppen, near Salford Station, on the Perkiomen Railroad, which is hardly five miles from Falkner Swamp, but it must have been at New Gosh-
24 For earlier accounts of Weiss see Harbaugh, Fathers of the Reformed Church, Vol. I, Lancaster, 1857 pp. 265-274; Good, History of the Reformed Church in the United States, 1725-1792, Reading, 1899, pp. 113-152; Corwin, Manual of the Reformed Church in America, New York, 1902, pp. 896-899; Dubbs, History of the Reformed Church in Pennsylvania, Lancaster, 1902, pp. 83-90; Hinke, Life and Letters of Boehm, pp. 26-37.
25 Journal of P. H. S., Vol. VII, p. 56; Life and Letters of Boehm, p. 215.
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enhoppen, near East Greenville, which is about ten miles from Falkner Swamp. The first Reformed services were, therefore, held at New Goshenhoppen by the Rev. George Michael Weiss, the first pastor. He is such an important personage in the history of the Reformed Church in America, that he deserves a more elaborate biography than has yet been written of him.
John Peter Miller, the later monk of Ephrata, wrote about Mr. Weiss as follows in his Chronicon Ephratense :26
About the year 1726, the first High-German Reformed preacher, Weiss by name, arrived in Pennsylvania. He was born at Steb- bach, a Palatine place in the Neckar valley; studied at Heidelberg and finished his course at Koschehoppen [Goshenhoppen] in the county of Philadelphia.
This was all that was known about Weiss's birthplace till 1897, when the writer visited Heidelberg and found there, in the matriculation book of the famous University, the following entry :
1718, October 18.
Georgius Michael Weiss, Philosoph. Stud. Eppinga, Palatinus.
This entry shows that Mr. Weiss entered the Univer- sity of Heidelberg on October 18, 1718, as student of philosophy, and that he gave his birthplace as Eppingen, which is about half a German mile southwest of Stebbach.
On August 15, 1897, the writer visited Eppingen and found in the old church records of the town considerable information about the Weiss family. The oldest repre- sentative of the family, mentioned in the records,27 is Nico-
26 Chronicon Ephratense, Engl. transl., Lancaster, 1889, p. 70.
27 See article by the writer in the Reformed Church Messenger of Octo- ber 27, 1898, on " A Contribution to the Life of George Michael Weiss "; also in Christian Intelligencer of November 16, 1898.
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laus Weiss, a citizen of Gross Engersheim, in the Kingdom of Würtemberg. His son, John Michael Weiss, a tailor by trade, married on February 26, 1686, Barbara, widow of Jacob Stierle, citizen and tailor at Eppingen. This union was blessed with two children, Maria Appollonia, baptized December 26, 1686, and Barbara, baptized Octo- ber 7, 1689. But on June 30, 1692, the mother died, aged 44 years.
On September 16, 1692, "Hans Michel Weiss, citi- zen and tailor," married a second time, namely Maria, daughter of the late Martin Frank, shoemaker in Bretten. This second union was blessed with six children, as follows :
I. Anna Catherine, Dec. 11, 1695, died July 9, 1696.
2. Eva Catherine, July 31, 1697.
3. Görg Michael, Jan. 23, 1700.
4. Maria Elisabeth
5. Christophel twins, March 29, 1703.
6. Maria Elisabeth, born July 10, bapt. July 12, 1705.
In the case of the first five children but one date is given in the record, without any statement as to whether the date of birth or of baptism is intended. But as the names are entered in the baptismal record, it is more probably the date of baptism. The dates of the last child show that baptism took place usually on the third day after birth.
These entries prove that Georg Michael Weiss was not born at Stebbach, but at Eppingen. What is more re- markable is that, according to information received from the pastor of Eppingen, Stebbach never belonged to Ep- pingen ecclesiastically, but to a neighboring parish.
What became of Mr. Weiss, after he had finished his studies at Heidelberg, is still unknown. We meet him again ten years later, when on September 21, 1727, he with fifty other Palatines appeared before the Provincial
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Council of Pennsylvania, in the Court House of Philadel- phia and signed the oath of allegiance to the King of England.
As early as September 14, 1727, the Governor, Patrick Gordon, had called the Provincial Board together,
to inform them that there is lately28 arrived from Holland, a ship with four hundred Palatines, as 'tis said, and that he has informa- tion they will be very soon followed by a much greater number, who design to settle in the back parts of this province; & as they transport themselves without any leave obtained from the Crown of Great Britain, and settle themselves upon the Proprietors un- taken up Lands without any application to the Proprietor or his Commissioners of property, or to the Government in general, it would be highly necessary to concert proper measures for the peace and security of the province, which may be endangered by such numbers of Strangers daily poured in, who being ignorant of our Language and Laws, & settling in a body together, make, as it were, a distinct people from his Majesties Subjects.29
In answer to this representation of the governor the board ordered,
that the Masters of the Vessells importing them shall be examined whether they have any Leave granted them by the Court of Britain for the Importation of these Foreigners, and that a List shall be taken of the Names of all these People, their several Occupations, and the Places from whence they come, and shall be further exam- ined, touching their Intentions in coming hither; And further, that
28 This proves that the ship William and Sarah did not arrive on Sep- tember 18, 1727, as has been wrongly inferred from the list published in the Pennsylvania Archives, Second Series, Vol. XVII, p. 7. This list was drawn up on September 18, but the ship had landed before September 14, " lately " may mean a day or even several days earlier.
29 See Colonial Records, Vol. III, p. 282 f., for this list and the following extracts.
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a Writing be drawn up for them to sign declaring their Allegiance & Subjection to the King of Great Britain & Fidelity to the Pro- prietary of this Province, & that they will demean themselves peace- ably towards all his Majesties Subjects, & strictly observe, and conform to the Laws of England and of this Government.
In consequence of this order a signed list was laid before the board at its meeting on September 21, containing
the names of one hundred & nine Palatines, who with their Fami- lies, making in all about Four hundred Persons, were imported into this Province in the Ship William and Sarah, William Hill, Mas- ter, from Rotterdam, but last from Dover, as by Clearance from Officers of his Majesties Customs there; And the said Master being asked, if he had any Licence from the Court of Great Britain for transporting those People, & what their Intentions were in coming hither, said that he had no other License or Allowance for their Transportation than the above Clearance, and that he believed they designed to settle in this Province.
This list of 109 Palatines, as submitted to the Provincial Board on September 21, 1727, has been published in Vol. XVII, of the second series of the Pennsylvania Archives, pp. 7-8, but it is so imperfect and inaccurate, full of typo- graphical and other mistakes, that it seems worth while to submit a corrected list. Such a new publication is all the more justified because the list as submitted to the board, indicates the number of people in each family, which figures, though important, were omitted in the Pennsyl- vania Archives. The list is as follows :30
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