Ship Info.

 

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Michael Hunsinger who may have been born in Wales per son reports.  He was said to have emigrated aboard the ship "Britannia".  {Date anyone?}

Although Swiss in origin, the family in this country has come to be identified with that group of early Americans knows as the "Pennsylvania Dutch".. The early English settlers coined that term and they really meant to say "DEUTSCH", meaning German, but the word soon became corrupted into "Dutch".  They applied that name to those Germans and Swiss and even French Huguenots who arrived here in the 1700's and settled in a certain small area roughly defined as: south-central and eastern Pennsylvania.

From "The History of the PA German Pioneers"

Vol. 1

page 43 , PALATINES, arrived on ship, "PA MERCHANT", Sept. 10, 1731

HUNTSEKER, Hartman was listed as men above 16;

Anna, Frena, Elizabeth.... was listed as women above 16.

Ursel, Meyer, Hannes (John)....under 16

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page 61 , PALATINE, arrived on ship, "SAMUEL", Aug. 10, 1731

HUNCEKER, VALENDINE, age 12

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page 79 , PALATINE, arrived on ship, "PLAISANCE", Sept. 21, 1732

HUNSICER, Johannes, age 23, he was by himself.

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page 117 , PALATINE, arrived on ship, "RICHARD & ELIABETH", Sept. 28, 1733

HUNSINGER, Jacob, age 30

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page 176 , PALATINE, arrived on ship, "VIRTUOUS GRACE", Sept. 24, 1737

HONSACRES, Jacob, age 21

HONSACRES, Simon, age 18

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page 212 , PALATINE, arrived on ship, "ROBERT & ALICE", Sept. 11, 1738

HONSINGER, Johannes

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page 240, PALATINE, arrived on ship, "THISTLE", Nov. 3, 1738

HONSHOOKER, Peter, AGE 53

HONSHOOKER, Abraham, AGE 23

HONSHOOKER, Creeta, AGE 18

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page 378 , PALATINE, arrived on ship, "TWO BROTHERS", Sept. 15, 1748

HUNTZEKER, Johannes

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page 539 , PALATINE, arrived on ship, "NEPTUNS", Sept. 24, 1753

HUNTZEKER, David ( ft. note, a name was crossed out. prob. a minor)

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page 328, PALATINE, arrived on ship, "PHOENIX", Oct. 1, 1754

HONSICKER, Thomas

HONSICKER, Daniel

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page 704 , PALATINE, arrived on ship, "POLLY", Sept. 26 1765

HUNTZICKER, Jacob

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page 440, PALATINE, arrived on ship, "PHOENIX", Aug. 28, 1750

HOTZINGER, George

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VOL. 1, PG. 132----

Germans from the Port of Amsterdam arrived on ship, "COMMERCE", Oct. 9, 1803

HUNZIGER, Johannes

HUNSINGER, Elisab

HUNZIGER, Margred

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The above ships (with the exception of the last one) were English.  They embarked from the port of Rotterdam in Holland and landed at Philadelphia harbor.  almost all of the passengers on board these ships were from the Palatinate section of Germany.   Since generally only the names of the adult male passengers were listed, it is possible that some of the above single men actually accompanied their families.

In the eighteenth century conditions were poor in the Palatinate.  In the year 1709 a large colony of Palatines emigrated from Germany to the New World.  They landed at New York and settled there in the Mohawk Valley.  They discovered conditions there to be as bad, if not worse, than those they had left behind.  By 1711 many had returned to Germany bringing with them tales of the privations they had encountered.  This brought the exodus to a halt.  In 1717 a group of mainly Mennonites immigrated to PA mostly settling in the area of Skippack and in Lancaster County. By 1727 palatines began arriving in large numbers and continued to do so until about the time of the Revolution.  Almost all of them settled first in PA and in the late 1700's many migrated down into the Shenandoah Valley area of Maryland and Virginia and into certain counties of  North Carolina, Migration into Ohio and the mid-west did not generally begin until 1800.

 

 

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