Person:Andreas Grett (3)

Starting these pages after finding detailed migration information from ProGenealogists.com was only available in the Wayback Machine. Am attempting to reproduce it here so it won't be lost. Hopefully this isn't duplicative - although I wasn't able to find this info elsewhere on WeRelate.

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In 1709, Protestant Germans from the Pfalz or Palatine region of Germany escaped conditions of poverty, traveling first to Rotterdam and then to London. Anne, Queen of Great Britain, helped them get to her colonies in America. The trip was long and difficult to survive because of the poor quality of food and water aboard ships and the infectious disease typhus. Many immigrants, particularly children, died before reaching America in June 1710.

The Palatine immigration of about 2100 people who survived was the largest single immigration to America in the colonial period. Most were first settled along the Hudson River in work camps, to pay off their passage. By 1711, seven villages had been established in New York on the Robert Livingston manor. In 1723 Germans became the first Europeans allowed to buy land in the Mohawk Valley west of Little Falls. One hundred homesteads were allocated in the Burnetsfield Patent. By 1750, the Germans occupied a strip some 12 miles (19 km) long along both sides of the Mohawk River. The soil was excellent; some 500 houses were built, mostly of stone, and the region prospered in spite of Indian raids. Herkimer was the best-known of the German settlements in a region long known as the "German Flats"

Biography

Andreas was born about 1699. He immigrated in 1749, aboard the ship Phoenix or P'huexix outof Rotterdam, John Mason Captain. Arrived in Philadelphia 15 Sept 1749. He was accompanied by his son, Andreas Jr.

Sources

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