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G' ENTLEMAN'S Magazine quot- ed, 63.
German immigration a notable chapter in the History of Pennsyl- vania, 5 ; element called a " Slum- bering Giant," 6 ; Bibles spoken of, 9; Reformed community in 1664, 10, II ; near to Penn, 19; and Dutch translations of Penn's tracts, 20; arrivals at New York ; advise their friends to come over, 30 ; called foreigners after 1741, 54 ; immigration not the result of chance, 72; addicted to country and agricultural life, 73 ; ever a race of colonists, 74; petitioners complain, 82 ; a race of farmers, 94 ; located on the frontiers, as protection against Indians, 95 ; lives sacrificed in the French and Indian War, 95; enter Ohio, In- diana, Illinois, Kansas and the en- tire Great West, 96; Reformed numbers in 1731, 99; noted for large families, 100; soldiers re- mained in Pennsylvania, 104 ; mis- understood by Franklin, 108; newspapers in 1753, 109; immi- grants brought Bibles, prayer- books and catechisms, 113 ; defer- ence to authority, 114 ; the con- fiding disposition, 114; feared as an unruly element, 114; mostly farmers, 113-116; isolated by their language, 113 ; division into nu- merous religious sects, 113 ; some highly educated, 113; charge of being no lovers of agriculture, 117 ; summary of pursuits, 118; their improvement of farm lands, 120; methods of clearing lands, 121, 122 ; care of domestic animals, 121, 122 ; cultivation of vegetables, 123 ;
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mode of conveying produce to market, 123, 124; ideas regarding patrimony, 124; habits of thought, 125 ; introduction of German Re- formed and Lutheran churches, 129; beautiful natural surround- ings, 130 ; their love of home, 131 ; their trust in the Divine blessing, 131 ; their race virility, 132 ; oppo- sition to slavery, 137 ; in Virginia, 243; persons of substance, 246; begging in streets, 249; afflicted with diseases, 249 ; loyal to the English crown, 253 ; exodus to England mentioned, 258 ; Society of Pennsylvania mentioned, 260 ; Society formed, 262 ; rewards of- fered for runaway Redemptioners, 278 ; Society of Maryland, 280 ; they hold together, 306; their jus- tice and kindness, 306 ; character moulded by sufferings, 314.
Germanic races mostly agricultur- ists, 118.
Germantown settled in 1683, II; col- onized by well-to-do immigrants, I42 ; slavery augmented, 143. Golden Swan mentioned, 21I.
Gordon, Governor Patrick, and his law, 51, 91.
Gordon, the historian, quoted, 31, 32, 50, 87 ; estimate of number of Germans, 98; describes the Re- demptioners, 151.
Graaf, Hans, and others naturalized, 91.
Graeme, Dr., mentioned, 85.
Grahame, the historian, on condi- tions and concessions, 269.
Guesses at the number of Germans in Pennsylvania, 98.
Gun, Augustus, advertises servants, 232.
Gustavus Adolphus, King of Swe- den, solicits German colonists, 106.
HALLISCHE NACHRICHTEN mentioned, 100, 264.
Hamburg, Berks county, 212.
Hampden, John, mentioned, 74.
Harford county, Maryland, 276.
Hartsfelder, Julian, here in 1676, 106.
Hasselwood, Captain, 207.
Head Tax, a means of revenue, 50. Heavy arrivals in 1732 and 1738, 44.
Hennighausen, L. P., 106, 275, 281. Hersching estimates number of Ger- man immigrants, 99.
Hessian soldiers augment popula- tion, 103.
Hill, Captain, before the Board, 38. Hinke, Prof. W. J.'s valuable find, 39, 200.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania, 235.
Hoke, Isaac and Zachary, men- tioned, 241.
Holland to Cowes, trip from, 176.
Hopp, Dr. Ernest Otto, his book on newlanders, 193.
Horrors of the middle passage, 57. Hospital erected in 1750 at a cost of £1,000, 87.
Hospital, established, 244.
How to preserve health on ship- board, 30.
Hugh's Historical Account, 44.
Huguenots and Swiss, mentioned, 9. Humanity's sorest trial in the Colo- nies, 63.
Hunter, Governor, of New York, 258.
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IMMIGRANTS, whence they came, | Jungfrau, Johanna, a Dutch ship,
12 ; lists preserved at Harrisburg, 39; at first called Palatines, 53; regarded as legitimate game, 58 ; an addition to the wealth of a country, 79; not permitted to land when ill, 87; desire naturaliza- tion, 89; qualified at Court House, 93; their hardships while cross- ing the ocean, 177, 178 ; become Revolutionary soldiers, 185; re- specters of authority, 294.
Immigration, irregular prior to 1727, 42; of Germans from New York, 105; profitable to the crown, 250.
Imposition on passengers, 60.
Indentured servants of great value to Virginia, 289.
Indians alarmed at number of immi- grants, 232. Industry of the people, 115.
Injustice from merchants, 253.
Insel Pennsylvanien, the western Patmos, 143.
Insolvent law in Province of Penn- sylvania, 154.
In some years all immigrants from the Palatinate, 48.
Irish and German immigrants afflict- ed with dangerous distempers, 80. Irish, as Redemptioners, 218, 223 ; Catholics exported and sold, 225. Irish servants mentioned, 52; taxed 20 shillings, 52.
Island for hospital bought, 244.
TANICE MEREDITH, referred to, 290.
- Jasper, Margaret, Penn's mother, 18. Jealousy of the Germans, spoken of, 81.
. Johanna, name of ship, 280.
277.
K ALM, PETER, traveler and botanist, 30, 192.
Kapp, Friedrich, 266; Soldaten- handel quoted, 103. Keith, Governor, calls attention to immigration of Germans, 34.
Kelpius, Johannes, comes with 40 followers, 33. Kent, county of, 218.
Keppele, Johann Heinrich, 260. King Charles, referred to, 271.
Kinsey, John, Speaker of the Legis- lature, 82.
Kocherthal, Joshua, quoted, 290. Kunze, Pastor, 212.
L ANCASTER county mentioned, 92, 94 ; formerly occupied by Scotch-Irish, 119 ; typical German county, 133 ; richness of the soil, 134; richest agricultural county in the United States, 232.
Land Companies seeking colonists, 16.
Lands provided for Redemptioners, 267; granted to settlers, 270; to renters, 273 ; to servants, 273. Landmarks between 1683 and 1727 scarce, 9.
Large arrival of Germans in 1707, 34. Large number of German churches, 96.
Las Casas mentioned, 143. Laws restraining immigration, 114. Lebanon county spoken of, 94.
Ledger, Philadelphia, on German immigrants, 127.
Leeds, Duke of, letter to, 229, 230. Legislation growing out of human traffic, 151.
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Legislature admits need of hospital, 81.
Lehigh county receives German immigrants, 94.
Length of ocean voyage, 29, 30.
Liberty of conscience announced by Penn, 31.
Lists of passengers exacted from ship captains, 36; in triplicate, 39; probably not complete in every instance, 39.
Little Britain township mentioned, I34.
Little encouragement to Germans in New England and the South, 74.
Little immigration following Revo- lutionary War, 49.
Liverpool, 209.
Lobb, Captain, maltreatment of immigrants, 64.
Locke, John, mentioned, 74.
Logan, James, mentioned, 8; speaks ill of the Germans, 108 ; alarmed at extent of immigration, 114, 231, 232.
Löher, Franz, estimate of popula- tion, 100 ; his account of Redemp- tioners, 142, 183.
Longfellow's Evangeline referred to, 143.
Lord Baltimore gets ideas from Virginia, 150.
Lowell's Hessians quoted, 154.
Lutheran churches in Pennsylvania in 1750, 96.
Lutherans, number of in 1731, 99. Luttrell, the diarist, quoted, 258.
M ACAULAY'S tribute to the Ger- man immigrants, 112.
Many books imported from Ger- many, 109.
Margaret Jasper, Penn's mother, 18. Market Square at Germantown, 274. Markham, Governor, signature of, 276.
Marshall, Benjamin, 226, 227. Marshall, Christopher, 226.
Martha's Vineyard, tragedy, 63.
Martin George's case, 266.
Maryland spoken of, 235, 275; As- sembly of, 275, 281 ; archives quoted from, 283.
Mechanical trades, 118.
Mechanics enumerated, 235.
Mellick on New Jersey Redemp- tioners, 289; on the laws of New Jersey, 289.
Menno Simon, reference to, 17, 18.
Mennonites excused from taking oaths, 36; in New York, 105.
Menzel's History of Germany, quot- ed, 74, 99.
Merchants in the Redemptioner traf- fic, 263.
Message of Governor Thomas about hospitals, 78.
Meylin, Martin, and others natural- ized, 91.
Mifflin, Governor Thomas, report to, in 1796, 66.
Miller, Rev. John, writes about Mennonites, 105.
Minerva, ship, trouble with immi- grants, 266.
Minnewit, Peter, mentioned, 106.
Mittelberger, Gottlieb, mentioned, 55, 144; renders best account of human traffic, 173 ; remains four years in Pennsylvania, 174; re- counts wrongs endured, 174; op- poses immigration, 175 ; narrative quoted, 175 ; pays his respects to the newlanders, 194.
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Modern farmhouses, improvements
in, 135; farm machinery, 135. Mombert's, Rev. J. I., history quot- ed, 92. Monmouth insurrection mentioned, 225. Moore, Dr., mentioned, 20. More than 200 German families in Pennsylvania in 1700, 106.
Morris, Governor, Saur's letter to, 239, 245, 249.
Mortality among immigrants, 256. Mount Joy township settled by Scotch-Irish, 133.
Muhlenberg, Frederick Augustus, 266.
Muhlenberg, General Peter, 266.
Muhlenberg, Pastor H. M., men- tioned, his account of the new- landers, 188-264.
Murphy, Thomas, letter to, 227.
NAAS, Elder Johannes, 300 ; he defends the system, 300 ; tells his experiences. 302.
Names of immigrants on ship Will- iam and Sarah, 40 ; of ships that came in 1738, 45; of different sea-craft, 46 ; of Fisher's Island, 87 ; of Palatines published in Co- lonial Records from 1727 until 1736, 93.
National banks in Lancaster county, 136.
Natural increase in population, 100. New arrivals assisted by those al- ready here, 70.
New England settlers compared with German ones, 128.
New Jersey's laws for Redemption- ers, 290.
Newcastle, arrivals at, in 1729, 44 ; county of, 218.
Newcomers compelled to go to the frontiers, 94.
Newlanders defined, 187; their in- · iquitous methods, 187-192 ; guilty of robbery, 197; steal letters 296.
New York Germans come to Penn- sylvania, 50; her large colony, 258 ; the system in, 284 ; legisla- tion concerning Redemptioners, 286.
Nineteen ships arrive in a single year, 44.
No arrivals in 1745; 44.
No caste lost by being Redemp- tioners, 3II.
No disgrace attached to this servi- tude, 311 ; no distinctions under the laws, 307; no language but German spoken in some sections, 95
Non-conformists sold as Redemp- tioners, 288.
Northampton county mentioned, 119.
Nowhere else in America was such prosperity seen, 308.
Number of the German immigrants, 97 ; to each ship, 100; of invol- untary immigrants, 287.
0' 'CALLAGAN'S New York quoted, 104.
One hundred and fifty years ago not a golden age politically, 77.
Op den Graeff brothers spoken of, IO.
Oppression of the peasantry in Germany, 15.
Other colonies try to secure immi- grants, 72.
Owen, Griffith, spoken of, 8. Oxenstierna, Axel, mentioned, 10.
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PALATINATE, persecutions in, 17; the garden of Europe, II8.
Palatines spoken of, 65 ; promise al- legiance to Great Britain, 38, 209, 233, 235, 281.
Palmer, Thomas, mentioned 65. Pamphlets descriptive of Pennsyl- vania, 16.
Parke, Robert, letter by, quoted, 228.
Passengers who arrived in 1738, 45. Passenger ship of the period, 288. Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 10, 32, 93. Pastorius, Melchior Adam, 20; his pamphlets, 83.
Pathetic letter from maltreated passengers, 62.
Patroons, owners of large estates, 284.
Penn's selection of scholarly men, 7 ; a man of culture, 7 ; favorably known in Germany, 14, 16; his " Brief Account," 20; "Further Account." 21-30 ; his truthful- ness, 30; Government alarmed, 34 ; grandest character that ever came to America, 72, 74; his worldly shrewdness, 150; sanc- tions servitude, 150; allots lands to Redemptioners, 156 ; his appre- ciation of colonists, 218-219 ; his "Conditions and Concessions," 268-271 ; his "Some Account," 272.
Penn, Governor John, letter to, 58, 232 ; refuses to sign law favorable to German immigrants, 263.
Pennsylvania Archives, 36, 201, 233, 235.
Pennsylvania Berichte, Saur's news- paper, 200, 203, 204, 206, 207, 208, 209, 210; Staatsbote, 211; Gazette,
212; Magazine of History and Bi- ography, 221, 227-228.
Pennsylvania, descriptive accounts of, circulated, 14; always most favored by immigrants, 69; the greatest of all the Provinces, 75, 76; built up and developed by Germans, 114; Germans her most successful farmers, 119 ; her best counties to-day in German hands. 119.
Pennsylvania Gazetle, 53, 62, 262, Pennsylvania-German Society a fac- tor in stimulating research, 5; quoted, 66 ; seal of, 7.
Pennypacker, Judge S. W., referred to, II, 93, 106.
Pequea colonists sent over for their friends, 33.
Persons of German ancestry search- ing for records, 9.
Pest-house building recommended, 81.
Pestilence prevails in Philadelphia in 1740, 81.
Philadelphia, vicinity of, favored by Germans, 118 ; Ledger, 1856, de- fends German immigrants, 127; immigration through port of, 142; had only two mayors who could speak German, 262.
Philadelphische Zeitung's account of the Massachusetts episode, 64. Pioneer German hamlet, 42. Plockhoy, Christopher, 309, 310. Prefatory note, 5, 6.
Prices paid for Redemptioners, 236. Principal places of embarcation, 48.
Printz, Governor Johannes, I0; a German, 106.
Prisoners taken in England sold, 224; of war sold as Redemptioners, 288.
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Prosperity of Redemptioners, 134, 135, 136.
Proud's History quoted, 31, 49, 106, 127, 225.
Provincial Assembly defends itself, 81.
Provincial Council, records of, 85. Provision made for English, Irish and Welsh indentured servants, 155; lands given Redemptioners on easy terms, 267.
0 UAKERS spoken of, 17, 18, 19. Quarrels between the early Governors and the Legisla- tures, 76.
Quit-rents paid by renters, 273.
R AIN caught from passing show- ers, 56.
Rations served on ship-board, 179. Records, Colonial, 36, 37, 78, 87, 88, 245.
Redemptioners accused of illiter- acy by Franklin, 109; name not mentioned in Acts of Assembly, 144; term defined, 144; origin of term, 170; two classes, 171; two kinds of, 145 ; better class de- scribed, 148; evils which befell them on arrival, 147, 148; word does not occur in Statutes at Large, 151; indentures, copies of, 165, 234; annual influx of, 185; reduced to desperation by ill-treatment, 196; injustice from masters, 198, 210, 213 ; not always Germans, 217 ; in Delaware, 221 ; Irish, 223 ; in Vir- ginia, 224 ; spoken of, 270, 275 ; of English and Irish birth, 276; of Swiss ancestry, 281; sometimes treated like slaves, 283, 284 ; paid for with tobacco, 287; known in New York, 287; rise to eminence
in Virginia, 289 ; valuable as col- onists, 289 ; traffic an every-day business, 293; had the sanction of the times, 293 ; only its abuses ar- raigned, 294; the traffic an im- perishable page in Pennsylvania history, 299; many doomed to life- long poverty in Germany, 305 ; hewers of wood and drawers of water, 305 ; in the hands of task- masters, 306 ; poor but honorable, 307 ; grew rich by honest toil, 311 ; sustained by the consolations of religion, 314; true to their lineage, 314; left broad acres to their de- scendants 127, 312 ; they fought a good fight, they kept the faith, 315. Reformed Churches in Pennsylva- nia in 1750, 96.
Region of the Ohio penetrated by Germans, 95.
Registration an excellent step, 36; of contracts between master and man, 164.
Reiger, Rev. J. B., makes estimate of the number of Germans, 99.
Rejoinder of Gov. Thomas to As- sembly, 82.
Religious tolerance of German set- tlers, 137.
Renters had right of suffrage, 270; of fifty acres, 269.
Revenue defrauded, 252.
Rhine Provinces spoken of, 9.
Rivalry among English colonies, 149.
Roman civilization in contact with Germanic tribes, 117.
Rotterdam, 206, 209. Rupp's 30,000 Names, 33, 36, 54, 95, 126, 201, 212, 232.
Rush, Dr. Benjamin, his book, 54, 120, 125.
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AAL, the, at Ephrata, 226.
S Sachse, Julius F., illustrations of, referred to, 6, 10; Father- land spoken of, 20.
Sale of immigrants on ship-board, 180.
Sauer, Charles G., quoted, 255.
Saur, Christoph, 144, 199, 238, 239 ; letters to Governor Morris, 241, 245, 249, 254, 255, 260, 261.
Say, Thomas, proposed as overseer, 241.
Scharf & Westcott's History quoted 366.
Schuylkill county settled, 94. Scotch indentured servants, 53.
Scotch-Irish, their pursuits com- pared with those of the Germans, 116; their elimination from farms, 134; emigrants accompanied by servants and dependents, 156 ; as Redemptioners, 218.
Seal of Pennsylvania-German Soci- ety, 7; of Ephrata community, 231. Sect, people spoken of, Mennonites, Dunkers and Schwenkfelders, 96. Seidensticker, Dr. Oswald, 96; esti- mates German population, 99, 130, 264.
Sener, S. M., mentioned, 231.
Servant, the word as understood in acts of Assembly, 157 ; rewarded at expiration of term of service, 275 ; in Maryland, 275.
Settlement in Berks, Montgomery and Lancaster counties, 33.
Settlement of Germantown in 1683, 32.
Settlers needed in Pennsylvania, 73. Shenandoah Valley settled by Ger- mans, 129.
Ship-captains, brokers and mer- chants all engaged in the work of
spoliation, 57 ; ship-load arrives in Massachusetts, 62; ship Her- bert lost, 259 ; ship agents at the present time, 267 ; ship-masters advertisement, 277-278.
Ship-masters held to account, 37.
Ship Mercury mentioned, 40; Sam- uel makes six voyages, 46.
Ship William and Sarah, 38.
Shipping lists perhaps incomplete, 39.
Shortcomings of German settlers, 137.
Sick immigrants' case before the Assembly, 78; not permitted to land, 88.
Six hundred passengers on one ship, 49.
Six Nations, Indians, unite with France, 44.
Size of ships carrying immigrants, 46 ; average size 200 tons, 49.
Small immigration by other nation- alities, 103.
Small-pox on ship Welcome, 262.
Some Germans were Franklin's su- periors in scholarship, IIO.
Sources of information, 7. .
South Carolina Redemptioners, 290. Spark's Life of Franklin cited, 110. Spofford, Dr., made overseer, 240. Statutes at Large of Pennsylvania quoted, 52, 92.
Steadman, Captain, of the St. An- drew,87, 240.
Stillé's, Chas. J., estimate of German population, 98.
Story of the ship Palatine, wrecked off Block Island, 66.
Story of Redemptioners treated by local historians, 148.
Stranger's burying-ground spoken of, 261.
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Stuart dynasty, restoration of, 288. | Tract of the Elder Pastorius, 71. Successful settlement in Lancaster county, 33. Supplies nearly always deficient, 56. Sussex, county of, 218. Swabians mentioned, 208. Swatara, valley of the, 258.
Swedes and Friends treated Re- demptioners kindly, 306.
Swedish colonies partly composed of Germans, 104.
Swiss and Huguenot settlers re- ferred to, 9; Colony of, in the Pequea valley in 1709, 32. Sypher, J. R., estimate of number of German immigrants, 98.
System concerning servants in New York, 284.
7 ABLE of ships with German im- migrants, 43.
Tacitus quoted, 235.
Teutonic race constant by nature, 57. The Assembly's reply to Governor Thomas, 80.
The bright side of the Redemptioner traffic, 304. The Father of his Country, 295. The food question, 297.
The forty-shilling law quoted, 51. Their memories remain with their descendants, 315.
Thomas', Gabriel, account alluded to, 20; his account quoted, IOI. Thomas, Governor, quarrel with the Provincial Legislature, 77 ; his re- joinder, 82, 84 ; his salary with- held, 84; scores the Legislature, 85, 225.
Timbered country preferred by Ger- mans, 94. "To Have and to Hold," 290.
Traditional policy of Penn's Gov- ernment, 95.
Trappe Records, extract from, 307. Treatment on ship-board, 57.
Tribute to Germans by Governor Thomas, 114.
Tulpehocken Valley settled by Ger- mans from New York in 1729, 258.
Two mayors only in 100 years who could speak German, 262.
Two sides to every picture, 303.
Two, three and four ships arrive on the same day, 46.
TINABLE to defend their rights, 58.
University of Philadelphia, 231. Unsanitary condition of ships, 55.
TTALUE of farm lands, 134.
Vane, Sir Henry, protests, 225. Vessel shipwrecked with 400 Pala- tines on board, 260.
Virginia, Redemptioners in, 224, 275 ; the traffic in that State, 286 ; number of immigrants to, 287 ; and her neighbors, 287-289 ; voy- age across the ocean, 55.
Voyage of the Mayflower shows no deaths from starvation, 63. Vrouw Elizabeth, ship, 281.
TANTON, Governor of Rhode Island, action in a case of shipwreck, 261.
Warner, an early settler, 106.
Watson, the annalist, referred to, 53, 87, 106, 125, 262; defines indentured servants, 152.
Weiser, John Conrad, and his colony in 1729, 258, 259.
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Weiss, Rev. Lewis, memorial of, 58. Welsh, indentured servants, 53 ; as Redemptioners, 2IS. West Hempfield township, settled by Scotch-Irish, 133.
Where our annals are most defective, 13. Whittier, quoted, 7, 67. Why no Quaker blood was shed by Indians, 95.
Wickersham, James P., bears testi- mony to the excellence of the Ger- man settlers, 112.
Wiegman's wharf, 279. Wistar, Casper, letter quoted, 260. Worcester, prisoners taken there sold, 288.
Written records brought by few, 9. Wrongs of immigrants stated, 60. Wurtembergers, Hannoverians, Al- satians and Saxons, came almost exclusively in some years, 48.
YORK COUNTY spoken of, 94. Young, John Russell, reference to, 18-19.
Z ACHARY, DR. LLOYD, de- clines the appointment of hos- pital surgeon, 86 ; presents cer- tificate, 87.
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