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Names of Foreigners who Took the Oath of Allegiance to the Province and State of Pennsylvania, 1727-1775, with the Foreign Arrivals, 1786-1808
In 1727, the Pennsylvania Provincial Council passed a law requiring all "foreign" immigrants (i.e. those of non-British origin) to swear an oath of allegiance to the Crown. Lists of these immigrants were originally assembled for publication in the Pennsylvania Archives (Ser. 2, Vol. XVII), and they are reprinted here without change. This work, then, is an exhaustive list of "foreigners"-mostly Germans-who immigrated into the Province and, later, the State of Pennsylvania between the years 1727 and 1775 and again during the years 1786-1808. More to the point, it is a collection of ships' passenger lists, in many cases the lists being transcribed in entirety, with Captains' lists of passengers running up to the relatively late year of 1808. Along with the full name of the immigrant, including the names of all males over the age of sixteen, since that was the age they were obliged to take the oath, such information is given as name of ship, date of arrival, port of origin, and, in some instances, ages, names of wives, and names of children. An exhaustive index of surnames, running to more than 100 pages, contains about 35,000 references.
The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England
In The Drama of Serial Conversion in Early Modern England, Holly Crawford Pickett reconceptualizes early modern religious identity by exploring the astonishing stories of serial converts: historical figures such as William Alabaster, Kenelm Digby, William Chillingworth, and Marc Antonio De Dominis, along with fictional ones, who changed their religious affiliations between Catholicism and Protestantism multiple times. Pickett argues that serial converts both reveal and helped revise early modern understandings of the self. Through investigation of the techniques that serial converts used to stage and justify their conversions, Pickett demonstrates the performative nature of the act of conver...
The Georgia Frontier
Sets forth the genealogies of 591 families, referencing tens of thousands of Georgia settlers.
The Engelhorn Family
The earliest known member of this family, Marx (Markus) Engelhorn (1580-1650), was born in Hockenheim, Baden, Germany. The common ancestor of all the Engelhorns who came to Allamakee Co., Iowa between 1847 and 1866 was, Johann Marcus Engelhorn II (1782-1869), who was Bürger, farmer and magistrate in Altlussheim, Germany. He stayed in Germany. His oldest son, Johann Thomas III, also stayed in Germany, but eight of his nine surviving children immigrated to America as well as four Johann Thomas's siblings. Family members and descendants live in Iowa, Illinois, Minnesota, Montana, North Dakota, Ohio, California, Oregon and elsewhere.
All Routes Are Amber
It was 2005 when Martin Swirko, a Master Sergeant serving in the Massachusetts Army National Guard, volunteered for active duty to serve as an embedded advisor with an Iraqi battalion. Motivated with a burning desire to discover whether or not the US Army doctrine he had been instilling in soldiers throughout his career had any relevance once they arrived on the modern battlefield, Swirko left his wife, civilian life, and career behind, and transitioned from Ft. Carson to Kuwait to Iraq, and finally into combat. In a vivid retelling of his military experiences, Swirko begins by describing his first days in the US Army Reserves in the eighties, followed by the tedious and often arduous proces...
Pennsylvania Archives
A collection of documents supplementing the companion series known as "Colonial records of Pennsylvania" which contain the minutes of the Provincial Council, of the Council of Safety, and of the Supreme Executive Council of Pennsylvania.
