Digitized by the Internet Archive in 2018 with funding from This project is made possible by a grant from the Institute of Museum and Library Services as administered by the Pennsylvania Department of Education through the Office of Commonwealth Libraries https://archive.org/details/pennsylvaniacoun09unse MARK TWAIN’S Soildp BQOK. PA TENTS: , UNITED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN. FRANCE. June 24TH, 1873. May i6th, 1877. May i8th, 1877. TRADE MARKS: UNITED STATES. GREAT BRITAIN. Registered No. 5,896. Registered Np. 15,979. DIRECTIONS. Use but little moisture, and only on the gummed lines. Press the scrap on without wetting it. /. DANIEL SLOTE & COMPANY, NEW YORK. m INDEX. .■ . — B (%LZ B C >t>W*v nr. ; ■■ / L. Jr- tr ■ u9mwa< v" 1 ' ) i 1 1 ’ 1' INDEX. fll ft — || uv Page w y.f -j jfe: i ’, j "\ • 1.; rWt * • D h / K [ • - I v ^ i * ' . •"■O' 1 ' W • XYZ ftf, I -' ■> >’. ■ 1 I1 ; • f ■ ; . \W* , i • : P t 1 E't • --— ------r ..... • ■ - i-1--- if a date as 1682 a few Germans adventurers !had established themselves where the town of Chester now stands. Many ! Germans from the Palatinate had gone to ! From. Li ?.( ^ ^/■■■ ^ ' England upon the invitation of Queen 5 ' Anne, and therefore when Penn left for this country to settle his province a goodly number of Germans came with him and also during subsequent years. Some sold themselves and worked for a specified Date, time. [W. J. Hoffman in Folk Lore of Pennsylvania Germans ] According to Proud, some of the llNNSYLVAf IA GERMANS settlers from the Palatinate lodged in hollow trees in the woods, and in coves and dugouts along the Delaware and SAMUEL M. SENER ADDRESSES THE AMER¬ Wissahickon, while others erected rude huts. Between the years 1708 and 1720 ICAN HISTORICAL SOCIETY. thousands of new arrivals, chiefly Palatinates, flocked into the province of Pennsylvania. When Philadelphia county He Tells of the language of These I was established, on account of the number People, Their Manners, History and of Germans located in its northern settle¬ Customs-in Interesting Paper. ment the spot received the name of “Germantown.” On September 17, 1717, the lieutenant At the tenth annual meeting of the governor of the province 11 observed to American Historical society in Y;ash- the board that great numbers of foreign¬ ineton, D. C., on Friday afternoon,^. ers from Germany had been imported Sener, esq., of this city, delivered an ad¬ into this province,” and on March 15, dress. He said: . 1721, the Palatinates undertook to furn¬ I shall endeavor to give you m a terse ish the corn to be presented to the Indians and brief form a sketch of the Pennsyl¬ as agreed upon by the council between vania Germans — their origin, history, the government and the Indians, a council manners and customs. They occupted a held atConestogue, in what is now Lan¬ region chiefly to the northeast of the Alle- caster county. In 1724, an act was zheniea, excluding several counties near passed to allow Germans to purchase land Philadelphia. Their language, under the in the province, and in 1726, the secre¬ name of “Pennsylvania Dutch,” is used tary of the province writes, “We shall bv a large part of the country population soon have a German colony, so many to-day, and may be heard constantly in Palatinates are already in the country. the cities of Easton, Beading, Allentown, On September, 15, 1727, the governor ac¬ Harrisburg, Lebanon, York and Lancaster. quainted the council that a ship had Pennsylvania Dutch, so-called because lately arrived from Holland with four Germans call their language Deutseh, hundred Palatinates on board, and that is a dialect which has been corrupted by many more were expected shortly.” The the admixture of English words and council then decided to require all such idioms, and presents variations due to the people to subscribe to an oath oi allegi¬ limited intercourse of a widely scattered ance to his majesty, and promise fidelity population, anJ to dialects brought from to the proprietor and obedience to the abroad, chiefly from the region of the established constitution until a proper Upper Rhine and the Neckar, the latter remedy can be had from home to prevent furnishing the Suabian or Rhenish the importation of such numbers of Bavarian element. The language is there¬ strangers.” fore South German, as brought in-by This early stricture did not prevent emigrants from Khenish Bavaria, Baden, the intrepid German from coming to this 1 Usace, Wurtemberg,German Swisserland country. For years the agents of the md Darmstadt. Local names like proprietor had refused to sell land to Hanover, Heidelberg, and Manheim mdi- the German exiles, which appeared to be cate whence some of the early residents part of a determined purpose to prevent came. The language does not occur in the Germans from settling in Pennsyl¬ the counties along the northern border of vania. [Address of Geo. F. Baer the state, but it has extended west, and before Palatinate college, 1875.] In even has some representatives in Western one way or another the Ger¬ New York and Canada. The numerous man settler was oppressed and harassed allusions to the “Fatherland” to be met until in 1754 a quarrel arose between the with belong to the foreign German the proprietary and the Assembly, and natives caring no more for Germany than finally in 1754 (Nov. 24,) the Germans for other parts of Europe; for they are marched to Philadelphia and demanded completely naturalized, notwithstanding that means be provided for their protec¬ their language. tion and safety. The proper remedies As early as 1633 Swedish settlers ap¬ were not devised and the matter again peared on Tinicum Island m the culminated in a quarrel in 1764. “The Delaware, and they held possession until Plain Dealer, or Remarks upon Quaker 155 when they were supplanted by Politics in Pennsylvania,” a rare volume le Dutch, or Germans. Even at so early I printed in 1764, recites: “The unhappy Germans, being ignorant of your consti¬ roll of attorneys of Lancaster count; tution, have been blindly led into yonr shows no German names until in 1769. schemes and patiently groaned under the when Hubley and Weitzel appear. From burden, while their wives, their children 1793 to 1804 out of fifty-two names and all were perishing by fire and entered only three were Germans; from, hatchet.” * * * * f “The German, 1825 to 1835, twenty-two names give but having lost everything else, begins to two German; later on the German names pray that you would spare his life. become prominent, and so it is with other county lists of members of the bar. In a verse accompanying a caricature illustrations of the “Plain Dealer” occurs Most of the German ancestors to Penn¬ sylvania were Lutherans, German Re¬ the following: formed and Moravians, hut there were “The German Weeds and hears ye furs Of Quaker lords and savage ours. j some Catholics and many other sects, such as the Dunkars, Mennonites, The proprietary not granting properj Schwenkfelders, etc. In addition there protection to our German ancestors dur¬ were many of sects which have since be¬ ing the period between 1750 and 17Go, j come defunct, as the Labadi3ts, Inspired! they were murdered and plundered by Separatists and the Society of the Indians, and the Tulpehocken, Albany, Women of the Wilderness. Berks and Lancaster sections suffered They usually brought with them on the severely, many being killed or scalped, ship a clergyman and a school master, and their children being carried into cap¬ tivity. No man can tell where the In¬ speaking of the latter as next to the pastor. The German Catholic element in dian would strike the next blow. 1754 numben d in Lancaster county under [Wallemheber-Gordon.] By 1742 the Ferdinand Farmer one-hundred and eight steady stream of immigration that had males and ninety-four females; Berks set. in since 1689 had brought to the county, forty-one males, thirty-nine province one bundled thousand German ■ females, Chester county, three males. immigrants, and byj.765 the number had The proportion held good under Robert finer eased to two hundred and eighty Harding, Matthias Monner and Theodore thousand. [Haldeman ] This is a por¬ Schneider in other sections and in the tion of the unwritten history of the trials, whole province there were 949 Catholics, and tribulations of our German ancestors. while the Irish Catholics numbered only They proved determined in their efforts 418. [Penn’s Archives, III., p. 144, and to colonize, however, and steadfastly, Colonial Records, VII., p. 447.] through all trials and privations, main¬ The earliest German Catholic settle¬ tained the proprietary government, and ments were at Goshenhoppen in 1747; finally their thrift, zeal and faith con¬ Philadelphia in 1731; Lancaster in 1742; quered and the woods rang with the Conewago prior to 1730, possibly about chopper’s block and on the 1720. ‘•Banks of the Saatara, the songs of the .Rhine” -The Germans early smelled gunpowder were heard and homes were soon erected in the province and many of them, like and churches also. Close by the church Christopher Ludwig, believed that with-1 stood the school house, and in a few years out saltpeter and sulphur there was no the province of Pennsylvania had become freedom (“Ohne schwefel nnd salpeter the most prosperous and flourishing of all keine Freheit”]. As early as 1727 there the colonies. had been open warfare between the “Our German ancestors brought but Germans in New York and Pennsylvania little with them. A few pieces of and the Indians. From 1747 to 1748, and i silver coin or gold, a chest with clothes, a again from 1755 to 1763, the French urged Bible, prayer or hymn book constituted the Indians to repeated attacks upon the' the whole stock of most of them.