Westerwald to America: Some 18th Century German Immigrants
- ISBN-10
- 092953932X
- ISBN-13
- 9780929539324
- Category
- History / United States / General
- Pages
- 272
- Language
- English
- Published
- 1989
- Publisher
- Picton Press
- Authors
- Henry Z. Jones, Annette K. Burgert
Description
284pp. 9 pages of reproductions of original immigration lists; place index and Every Name index. 2000 (1989) This book by two of the best-known German migration researchers documents the German origins, in the Westerwald Region of southern Germany, of more than 265 individuals and/or families which emigrated to America in the mid-18th century. Their German ancestry is included and, in many cases, exactly where they settled in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, New York, Maryland, and the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.
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