The Settlement of Germantown, Pennsylvania, and the Beginning of German Emigration to North America
UNIVERSITY^ PENNSYLVANIA UBRARIES ^^AniMMpr OF?{|r JOmv/' W. icmAUjpaxJiily Settlement of (3ermantown anD tbe !l6eoinnino of (3crnian lEmiaration to Bortb Hmerica BY HON. SAMUEL WHITAKER PENNYPACKER, LL.D. President Judge of the Philadelphia Court of Common Pleas, No. 2, and senior Vice-President of the Historical Society op Pennsylvania. WILLIAM J. CAMPBELL, THILADELPHIA. 1899. p THREE HUNDRED COPIES PRINTED FROM TYPE. COPYRIGHT BY SAMUEL W. PENNYPACKER 1899 ALL RIGHTS RESERVED PRESS OF The new Eba Printing Company LANCASTER, Pa PREFACE. S it seemed to be a duty which could not be avoided, I have w^ritten the fol- lowing history of the settlement of one of the most interesting of the Amer- ican burghs. A descendant of Hen- drick Pannebecker, Abraham Op den Graeff , Paul Kuster, Cornelius Tyson, Peter Conrad, Hendrick Sellen, Hans Peter Umstat and probably of William Rittenhouse, all of them among the early residents of Germantown, for thirty years I have been gradually gathering the original materials from over the world. The task was one of great difficulty, presenting ob- stacles not encountered elsewhere and requiring the ex- amination of almost inaccessible books and papers in the Dutch, German, French and Latin, as well as the English languages. An article written by me in 1880, since copied en masse as to facts, language and notes, in Cassel's History of the Mennonites, and used by other authors, has here been reconstructed. The careful and thorough investigations of the late Dr. Oswald Seidensticker, the work of Julius F. Sachse upon the German Pietists, the papers of the late Horatio Gates Jones and the article of H.
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