The Penn Germania

Excerpt from The Penn Germania Continuing the Pennsylvania-German, Vol. 1: A Popular Journal of German History and Ideals in the United States; January-December, 1912 Since his election Blankenburg has been dined. Feted, lionized and featured by the press possibly to his heart's dis content. A league of German met chants addressed him in these words. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1912 edition. Excerpt: ... we quote again from a letter of Secretary Iames Logan to Thomas Penn, dated at Philadelphia, November 27, 1727. "About William's Share, which thou particularly recommends, I have been anxious, but there are certain rich low Lands on Delaware, near a hundred miles northward on a Straight Line, not far from a Dutch Settlement, at a place called Mackhaekomack, in Jersey, and on the Confines of N. York Government, which Settlement is about 50 miles from Kingston or Esopus, on Hudson's River. A certain German of the Palatinate, named Conradt. VVyser, who was with thee at Rusoomb or London in the year 1723, treating about (8) Penn. Archives. 2nd Series, Vol. VII, p. 99, 100 Lands, recevd a few Lines from thee at Lond, wrote from Ruscomb, which only shew that you had talked about somewhat, but mention not so much as the word Land. A friend of his also made aflidavid about some words that passed between thy Mother and Wyser concerning Land here. From these that fellow has had the assurance to pretend a power from you to Sell Lands, and thereupon made an agreement with several People for parcels ot those rich Tracts I have mentioned, upon which they have proceeded to purchase Rights of the Indians at excessive prices. Being informed of this, I did what lay in my power to make those people sensible of the Cheat. that their purchases of the Indians were against our Laws, and their agreement with Wyser was of no validity. One J. Crook, of Kingston, in N. York Government, has wrote to thee about those Lands, but having no answer, he endeavored to take a shorter method, which was to purchase in this town old unlocated Original Rights from thy father's sales in England, by Lease and Release, with a. design to lay these on such parcels as they...

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