Becoming German The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York

Name: Becoming German The 1709 Palatine Migration to New York
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ISBN: 9780801473449

ISBN-10: 0801473446

ISBN-13: 9780801473449

Edition: 2013

Authors: Philip L. Otterness

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Becoming German tells the intriguing story of the largest and earliest mass movement of German-speaking immigrants to America. The so-called Palatine migration of 1709 began in the western part of the Holy Roman Empire, where perhaps as many as thirty tho

Book details

List price: $25.95
Copyright year: 2013
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Publication date: 12/4/2006
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 256
Size: 6.00" wide x 9.00" long x 0.69" tall
Weight: 0.836
Language: English



List of Maps and Illustrations


Acknowledgments


Quotations and Dates


Introduction



"A Particularly Deceptive Spirit": The German Southwest, 1709



"The Poor Palatine Refugees": London, Spring-Summer 1709



"A Parcel of Vagabonds": London, Summer-Winter 1709



"A Deplorable Sickly Condition": New York City, 1710



"They Will Not Listen to Tar Making": The Hudson Valley, 1710-1712



"The Promis'd Land": The Schoharie Valley, 1712-1722



"A Nation Which Is Neither French, Nor English, Nor Indian": The Mohawk Valley, 1723-1757


Conclusion



Database of the 1709 Emigrants


Abbreviations


Notes


Bibliography


Index