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The following are resources useful to learning more about the Pennsylvania Dutch immigration.


PRIMARY SOURCES



BOOKS

  • Letters from Our Palatine Ancestors, 1644-1689. Edited by Ann Louise Newman. Hershey, PA: Gary T. Hawbacker, 1984. 221 pp.


Pamphlets


  1. Defoe, Daniel. The Brief History of the Poor Palatine Refugees(1709), Publication No. 106.The Augustan Reprint Society, William Andrews Clark Memorial Library, University of California, Los Angeles, CA:1964 reprint 50 pp.
  2. Defoe, Daniel. The Review, London
  3. Defoe, Daniel. A Tour Thro' The Whole Island of Great Britain, ed. G. D. H. Cole, London: 1927
  4. Defoe, Daniel. Lex Talonis, in a Collection of the Writings of The True-Born Englishman, London: 1703
  5. Defoe, Daniel. A Brief Reply to the History of Standing Armies, London: 1698
  6. Defoe, Daniel. Some seasonable Queries on the Third Head, viz. A General Naturalization, London: 1697?
  7. The State of the Palatines for Fifty Years Past to the Present Time. London: 1709
  8. Unknown Contemporary Pamphlets, Widener Library, Harvard University


Reports, Journals, Correspondence
  1. Report to the House of Commons on April 14, 1711, H.C.J., XVI, 598
  2. Diary (1712). Thoresly Ralph. 2 Vols. London: 1830
  3. Board of Trade Journals: 1675-1782. Transcribed from the original MSS. In the British Public Record Office, 93 Vols. Library of Historical Society of Pennsylvania
  4. Board of Trade Papers: 1689-1780 Transcribed from the original MSS. In the British Public Record Office, 93 Vols. Library of Historical Society of Pennsylvania
  5. Hunt, Benjamin Peter. Facts and Notes Relating to the Redemptioners and the Early Emigration of the Poor To America, Boston MA: Boston Public Library. 8 volumes (Manuscripts, newspaper clippings, personal observations etc.)
  6. Pascoe, C.F. Records for the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel and Colonial Manuscripts. New York Historical Society Library or compilation as Two Hundred Years of the Society of the Propagation of the Gospel, 1702-1900. 2 Vols. London: 1901
  7. Strattford Papers. British Museum, London
  8. Letters of William Penn and Robert Hunter. Huntingdon Library, San Marino, CA
  9. Colonial Manuscripts. New York State Archives, Albany, NY
  10. Official Records. Public Record Office, London, England
  11. Acts of the Privy Council, Colonial, 1680-1720 (1910), also Volume of Unbound Papers, (pub. 1912)
  12. Calendar of State Papers, America and the West Indies, 1689-1693 (1921) to 1722-1723(1934)
  13. Correspondence between William Penn and James Logan, Secretary of the Province of Pennsylvania and others. The Historical Society of Pennsylvania 1870-1872
  14. The Reception of the Palatines Vindicated in a Fifth Letter to a Tory Member. Hare, Francis London: 1711
  15. The Piety and Bounty of Queen Anne of Great Britain, with the Charitable Benevolences of her living Subjects toward the support and Settlement of the Distressed Protestant Palatines. London: 1709
  16. Tories and Tory Principles Ruinous, London: 1714, 79+pp.
  17. Proposals for imploying the Poor in and about the City of London, London: 1713, 20+pp
  18. The Letters of Daniel Defoe, ed. G.H. Healey, Oxford: 1955
  19. Remarks and Collections of Thomas Hearne, ed. C.E. Doble, Vol. II, Oxford: 1886
Newspapers
  1. Daily Courant, London(classifieds and other, August 6, 11, 12, 1709)
  2. The Post Boy, London (August 13, 1709)
  3. Gazette, 1709

SECONDARY SOURCES


Books
  1. The Mennonite Encyclopedia, Scottsdale, PA. 1955
  2. Anabaptism in Outline: Selected Primary Sources. Edited by Walter Klaasen. Classics of the Radical Reformation, No.
  3. Scottdale, PA: Herald Press, 1981. 356 pp.
  4. Beidelman, William. Story of the Pennsylvania Germans. Easton, PA:1898
  5. Bittinger, Lucy Foorney The Germans in Colonial Times. Philadelphia:J.B. Lippincott, 1901
  6. Boyer, History of Queen Anne, 1703-1712. Vol. VIII
  7. Brown, J. M. Brief Sketch of the First Settlement of the County of Schoharie by the Germans. Schoharie, NY: 1823
  8. Croll, P.C. Annals of Womelsdorf, Pennsylvania and the Tulpehocken Community. 1923
  9. Cunningham, William. Alien Immigrants to England. London: 1897
  10. Cobb, Sanford H. The Story of the Palatines, New York and London: 1897
  11. Eshleman, H. Frank. Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania, And Of Their Remote Ancestors, From The Middle Of The Dark Ages, Down to the Time of The Revolutionary War, Lancaster, PA: 1917 386 pp.
  12. Geiser, Karl Frederick. Redemptioners and Indentured Servants in the Colony and Commonwealth of Pennsylvania. New Haven, CT:1901
  13. Haller, Charles R. Across the Atlantic and Beyond, The Migration of German and Swiss Immigrants to America. Bowie, MD: Heritage Books, 1993. 324 pp.
  14. Herrick, Chessman A. White Servitude in Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA: John Joseph McVey, 1926. 330 pp.
  15. Hugh Edward. A Short History of British Colonial Policy, Egerton, London: 1897
  16. Jones, Henry Z. Palatines to America. Universal City, CA:
  17. Knittle, Walter Allen. Early Eighteenth Century Immigration to America, Philadelphia, PA:1937, BaltimoreGenealogical Publishing Company, reprint 1965 LCC 65-21924
  18. Kunselman, Annette. Eighteenth Century Immigrants from German Speaking Lands to America. 2 Vols. Burgert, Birdsboro, PA:1985
  19. Morgan, William Thomas. English Political Parties and Leaders in the Reign of Queen Anne,1702-1710. New Haven,CT: 1920
  20. Roeber, A.G. Palatines, Liberty and Property, Baltimore, MD: The Johns Hopkins University Press, 1993. 432 pp.
  21. Stanhope, P.H. History of England 1702-1713. London:1870
  22. Stayer, James M. The German Peasant's War and Anabaptist Community of Goods. McGill-Queens Studies in the History of Religion, no. 6. Montreal &Kingston: McGill-Queens University Press, 1994. 227 pp.
  23. Todd, C.B. Robert Hunter and the Settlement of the Palatines, 1710-1719. in Wilson, J. G.,Memorial History of New York, Vol. II. NY:1892
  24. Tolzman, Don Heinrich German Immigration to America; The First Wave. Bowie, MD:Heritage Books, 1993
  25. Wokeck, Marianne S. Promoters and Passengers:The German Immigrant Trade, 1683-1775. in Richard S. Dunn and Mary maples Dunn, eds., The World of William Penn. Philadeplhia:1986 pp. 259-278

Historical Society Proceedings


  1. Brink, B.M. The Palatine Settlements. New York State Historical Association Proceedings,Vol. XI Albany:1912
  2. Cobb, Sanford H. The Palatine, or German, Immigration to New York and Pennsylvania.Wyoming Historical and Genealogical Society Proceedings, Vol. VII. Wilkes-Barre, PA:1897
  3. Diffenderfer, Dr. F. R. The German Exodus to England of 1709, Pennsylvania-German Society Proceedings, Vol.VII, October 22, 1897:pp257-413 and separately printed
  4. Diffenderfer, Dr. F. R German Immigration into Pennsylvania Through the Port of Philadelphia(1700-1755), Part II The Redemptioners. , Pennsylvania-German Society Proceedings, Lancaster, PA:1889
  5. Harley, Lewis R The Redemptioners. Sketches of Historical Society of Montgomery County for 1895. Norristown,PA:1895
  6. Holmes, H.A. The Palatine Emigration to England in 1709. Albany Institute Transactions, Vol.VII, 1872
  7. Jacobs, Henry Eyster. The German Emigration to America (1709-1740)., Pennsylvania-German Society Proceedings,Vol VIII, Lancaster, PA:1898
  8. Richards, M. H. German Immigration from the Province of New York into Pennsylvania.Pennsylvania-German Society Proceedings, Vol. VII, Lancaster, PA:1889
  9. Smith, C.H. The Mennonite Immigration to Pennsylvania in the 18th Century. Pennsylvania-German Society Proceedings, Vol. XXXV. Norristown, PA

Journals
  1. Fernsemer, O.F.W. Daniel Defoe and the Palatine Emigration of 1709, A New View of the Origin of Robinson Crusoe. Journal of English and Germanic Philology, Vol. XIX Urbana, Il:1920
  2. Grubb, Farley. German Immigration to Pennsylvania, 1709-1820. Journal of Interdisciplinary History 20 (1990) pp.417-436

Magazines and Periodicals
  1. Grubb, Farley. The Market Structure of Shipping German Immigrants to Colonial America. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 111(1987), pp. 27-48
  2. Harley, Lewis R. The Redemptioners.. New England Magazine, October 1896
  3. Katscher, Leopold. German Life in London. Nineteenth Century Magazine, Vol. XXI London:May 1887
  4. Mellick, A.D. German Emigration to the American Colonies. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol.10, 1886
  5. Morgan, William Thomas. The Ministerial Revolution of 1710 in England. Political Science Quarterly, Vol. XXXVI, number 2, June 1921
  6. Scheffer, J. G. DeHoop. Mennonite Immigration Into Pennsylvania. Translated from the Dutch by Samuel W Pennypacker. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, II, 117sqq.
  7. Seidensticker, Oswald. William Penn's Travels in Holland and Germany in 1677. Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, II.
  8. Todd, C.B. The Story of the Palatines. The Lippincott Magazine, Vol. XXXI, March 1883

Dissertations
  1. Fogleman, Aaron. Hopeful Journeys: German Immigration and Settlement in Greater Pennsylvania 1717-1775.
    Ph.D diss., University of Michigan, 1991

Newspapers

  1. London Newspapers
Other

  1. Naval Stores Project, Olde Ulster, Vol III. Kingston, NY:1907
  2. A True Description of Their Camps at Blackheath, reprinted in Ecclesiastical Records, State of New York Vol III, Issue 436, 1902
  3. Lutheran Church Review, Vol. 22. Philadelphia PA:1903 pp. 14-28, 313-321, 565-573

Bibliographical Guides
  1. Davies, Godfrey. Bibliography of British History; Stuart Period, 1603-1714. Oxford:1928
  2. Morgan, William Thomas. Bibliography of British History, 1700-1715. Bloomington,IND:1934
  3. Meynen, Emil. Bibliography of Colonial Germans of North America, Baltimore Genealogical Publishing Co.


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