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German and Swiss Settlers in America, 1700s-1800s Immigration Records

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Most of these books are about German and Swiss immigrants who settled in the Carolinas, Georgia, Louisiana, New York, Pennsylvania, and Texas. There are many different kinds of resources here. For example, there are historical essays about the impact of Germans on the settlement of Texas, the great Palatine migration from the Rhineland in 1709, and how Germans and Swiss moved.


Historic Background and Annals of the Swiss and German Pioneer Settlers of Southeastern Pennsylvania, and of their Remote Ancestors by H. Frank Eshleman

The German Immigration into Pennsylvania Through the Port of Philadelphia from 1700 to 1775 and the Redemptioners by Frank R. Diffenderffer

Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies by Albert B. Faust and Gaius M. Brumbaugh

List of Germans from the Palatinate who Came to England in 1709 by John Tribbeko and George Ruperti

True and Authentic Register of Persons who in the Year 1709 Journeyed from Germany to America by Ullrich Simmendinger

Pennsylvania German Immigrants, 1709-1786 Lists Consolidated from Yearbooks of “The Pennsylvania German Folklore Society” by Don Yoder

The Book of Names, Especially Relating to the Early Palatines and the First Settlers in the Mohawk Valley by Lou D. MacWethy

Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration by Walter Allen Knittle

A Collection of Upwards of Thirty Thousand Names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French, and Other Immigrants in Pennsylvania from 1727 to 1776 by Israel Daniel Rupp

The Germans of Colonial Georgia, 1733-1783 by George F. Jones

German Immigrant Servant Contracts Registered at the Port of Philadelphia, 1817-1831

A New Land Beckoned: German Immigration to Texas, 1844-1847 by Chester W. Geue and Ethel H. Geue

New Homes In A New Land: German Immigration To Texas, 1847-1861 by Ethel H. Geue

German Immigrants: Lists of Passengers Bound From Bremen to New York, 1847-1871, With Places of Origin by Gary J. Zimmerman and Marion Wolfert

Pennsylvania German Pioneers: A Publication of the Original Lists of Arrivals in the Port of Philadelphia from 1727 to 1808 by Ralph Beaver Strassburger

Rhineland Emigrants: Lists of German Settlers in Colonial America edited by Don Yoder

The Settlement of the German Coast of Louisiana and Creoles of German Descent by J. Hanno Deiler

Naturalizations of Foreign Protestants in the American and West Indian Colonies by Montague S. Giuseppi

Persons Naturalized in the Province of Pennsylvania, 1740-1773
by John B. Linn and William H. Egle

Names of Foreigners who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775 by William Henry Egle

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