This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... AN ACCOUNT OF THE MANNEES Of The GERMAN INHABITANTS OF PENNSYLVANIA. The State of Pennsylvania is so much indebted for her prosperity and reputation, to the German part of her citizens, that a short Account of Governor George Thomas, of the Province of Pennsylvania, wrote to the Bishop of Exeter, England, ...
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This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1875 edition. Excerpt: ... AN ACCOUNT OF THE MANNEES Of The GERMAN INHABITANTS OF PENNSYLVANIA. The State of Pennsylvania is so much indebted for her prosperity and reputation, to the German part of her citizens, that a short Account of Governor George Thomas, of the Province of Pennsylvania, wrote to the Bishop of Exeter, England, April 23, 1747. "The Germans of Pennsylvania, are, I believe, three-fifths of the whole population, whole population, 200,000). They have, by their industry, been the principal instruments of raising the state to its present flourishing condition, beyond any of his Majesty's Colonies, in North America." Papers relating to the History of the Episcopal Churchy in Pennsylvania, by W. S. Perry, D. D., p. 265. Pennsylvania took the lead of all the colonial states in agriculture, because of the many German settlers. In 1751, there were exported 86,000 bushels of wheat, 129,960 barrels of flour, 90,743 bushels of Indian corn. The total exports of 1751, exceeded in value, one million of dollars. L D. R. their Manners may, perhaps, be useful and agreeable to their fellow citizens in every part of the United States.' The aged Germans, and the ancestors of those who are young, emigrated chiefly from the Palatinate, from Alsace, Swabia, Saxony and Switzerland: but natives of every principality and dukedom of Germany, are to be found in different parts of the state. They brought but little property with them.f A few pieces of silver In the Ship Lists, the name Palatines, is indiscriminately applied to all imported Germans into Pennsylvania, prior to 1741; afterwards, they are designated, Foreigners, inhabitants of the Palatinate, and places adjacent; "Wittembergers, from Erbach, foreigners from Wittemberg, Alsace, and Zweibruecken: from Nassau, Hanau, ...
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