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From: "Carol Miller" <>
Subject: Re: [MDCECIL] Migration Routes
Date: Wed, 25 Feb 2009 15:42:53 -0500
In-Reply-To: <014701c99785$0ffc3040$840fa8c0@Dora>


I have a 2great-grandfather who was born in Switzerland. He fought in
Napoleon's army, and was a German Lutheran. In 1818 he sailed from Amsterdam
to Philadelphia. I think he stayed there for a few months. Then he took a
ship from Philadelphia to the Port of Mobile, and made his way up the
Alabama River, settling in Autuaga Al, where farmland was cheap and which
was an area that was just being settled. I don't know if he knew where he
was going when he left Philadelphia. I have a copy of a letter that he
wrote to the Harmony Society, a German Lutheran communal, utopian type
community, in 1821. He was missing being around other German speaking
people, and had been sick (yellow fever) and had not adjusted to the climate
in Alabama. He was inquiring about the community with an interest in joining
them. In a second letter a few months later, he sounded more settled. I
don't know if he left Alabama for a few months, or if he just never left. He
married in 1823 and lived there for the rest of his life.

Carol B. Miller

-----Original Message-----
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Behalf Of Dora Smith
Sent: Wednesday, February 25, 2009 3:10 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [MDCECIL] Migration Routes

Not sure how well this holds up. Philadelphia and Baltimore were major
points of entry, and eastern Maryland a common initial settlement point,
among the Germans who migrated here in the mid 19th century. Large numbers
of them poured into the Pennsylvania Dutch regions of Pennsylvania and
blended with their countrymen there; this includes my father's mother's
mother's people.

Yours,
Dora Smith
Austin, TX


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Sent: Monday, February 16, 2009 1:39 PM
Subject: [MDCECIL] Migration Routes


> om>
> Errors-To: m+-dcecil-bounce+villandra=
>
> For what it's worth - I would start with New York when researching ports
> of
> entry during this time period.
>
> In the 1840s and 1850s all of my ancestors who emigrated from Wales/UK
> into
> Cecil and Harford Co. Maryland came through New York harbor.
> Unfortunately, I
> wasted a lot of time researching other ports, such as Baltimore, because
> they are much closer to the final destination. Just a thought.
>
> Mary
>
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