This excellent book gives a fine presentation of German history in America down through the American Revolution. Chapter headings include: Conditions in Germany which led to Emigration; Germantown; The Labadists in Maryland; The Woman in the Wilderness; German Valley, New Jersey; Kocherthal's Colony; The Great Exodus of the Palatines; Pequae and the Mennonites; The Dunkers and Ephrata; The Schwenkfelder and Christopher Dock; The Progress of Settlement in the Valley of Virginia and Maryland; The Germans in South Carolina; German Colonization in New England; The Salzburgers in Georgia and the Pennsylvania Germans in North Carolina; The German Press; The Moravians; Conrad Weiser and the Frontier Wars; The "Royal American" Regiment; The Redemptioners; The Germans as Pioneers; The Germans in the Revolution; and more.
Lucy Forney Bittinger
(1901), 2007, 5.5" x 8.5", paper, index, 312 pp.
ISBN: 9780917890901
101-B0090
