Karl Shally (Schalle) must have taken a boat trip down the Appel River from Wurzweiler and then to the Rhine below the city of Mainz. From there, he would have taken a boat down to the port of Rotterdam, where he embarked. Records show that he came to Philadelphia, Pennsylvania aboard the ship Robert and Alice with 217 other people. The ship was captained by Hartley Cussack, who took passengers at Rotterdam and then crossed the Atlantic stopping only at Cowes, a town on the Isle of Wight just to the south of Southampton and Portsmouth in England. The date of his arrival in Philadelphia was September 3, 1739. He immediately took the Oath of Allegiance to the British Crown and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania, to which he signed his own name.
Karl had a land warrant, dated May 13, 1741 for a piece of property located in Quittapahilla Creek in North Lebanon Township in what was later become Lebanon County.
"After the land purchase of 1732, the farmers who had "squatted" on tracts in Lebanon County hastened to buy the homesteads from the proprietors in Philadelphia. The standard price in those years was 15 pounds, 10 shillings per acres, with a half-penny sterling quit-rent per acre. Records of early warrants show a usual range of between 100 and 500 acres purchased. It was not uncommon for one man to obtain a warrant for several hundred acres and within a few days sell this same land in small tracts to others." (Edna J Carmean, ed., Lebanon Co, PA-- a History (Lebanon, PA, 19676) p 4-5.)
Karl must have been feeling prosperous enough to either start or continue his family, since his son John Peter was born September 29, 1741 and baptized at Hill Lutheran Church by the Rev. John Caspar Stoever, one of the pioneer Lutheran pastors of the area. Sponsor for the baptisms as noted in those church records was Peter Kucher, who built the first mill on the Quittapahilla.
Karl didn't sell his land right away, but I'm told that the land he owned eventually became part of the city of Lebanon-- and that the Stoy Mansion, in which the Lebanon County Historical Society is housed, was built on land that originally belonged to him.
On September 30, 1743 more Shallys arrived in Philadelphia. On this trip, Karl's older brother, Johann Ludwig, came with his family. Like his brother Karl, he would have come down the Appel River to the Rhine and then to Rotterdam. Interestingly enough, he took the same ship, the Robert and Alice, and like his brother four years earlier, he signed the ship's register.
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