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Brown Bag: Earliest German Settlers in North America, the Revolutionary War, and Westward

  • Schwenkfelder Library & Heritage Center 105 Seminary Street Pennsburg, PA, 18073 United States (map)

Presented by Allen Viehmeyer

The first German-speaking immigrant families arrived in Philadelphia in October 1683 to settle permanently in Pennsylvania. This talk features brief sketches of Germans in the Revolutionary War as well as how they moved westward at the end of the war.

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