Evening star., 1915-12-05
tors of the Dutch West India Company
in 1850. In one Of these letters he said.

in 1852 In one Of these letters he said.
1t is certainly true that the people begin to
run away In numbers. as. for instance, while l
went there with some provisions from Boston
three weeks ago. and the skipper or IT, wen
his stay of fourteen days at the southriyer about
fifty persons, among them whole families ran
away from there to Virginia and Maryland
In another part of the stuyvesant cor
respondence, which may be found In
the Pennsylvania archives, he writes:
We mentioned in our last letter the deplorable
and bad state Of affairs In the colony on South
river, caused by the desertion and removal OF
the eoonss to s,H and in VrSna .Isb ana
hardly thirty families remain.
One of the earliest Dutch or German
settlers of note in Maryland was Cor
nelius Commegys. He came from .ne
Dutch colony on the Delaware. ana
there is a record that he was natural
lied in Maryland in 1851 under author,
ity of "Caecelius Absolute Lord and
Proprietary Of the Provinces OF mary
land and Avalon Lord Barron OF Bal.
timore" In 1866 he had $50 acres OF
land patented to him in Cecil county,
and in 1869 he obtained another patent
for $50 acres.
The most prominent of the early
Maryland Germans was Augustus Her
man, who, although born at Prague. in
Bohemia. was a German. He came 70
Maryland from the Dutch settlement
of New Amsterdam and was one OF the
commissioners on the part OF the
Maryland and Delaware. In 1860 Lord
Baltimore granted him a patent to
1000 acres, with manorial rights, on
the Elk river. and Herman Saliea un.s
was in consideration that Herman
should make a map of the country be-
tween the Hudson river and North
Carolina. which map was made ana Is
Manor became the seat Of colony OF
German religionists called the Laoa-
dists, a strange sect founded IN Ger
many by Jean de Labadie in 1859. An
excellent history OF the Lanaatss r,tsen cGrv by
Bartlett B. James. The colony IN
Maryland passed out Of existence In
1870.
According to report of the Society
for the History of the Germans In
Maryland, there are records OF early
land grants in Maryland to the follow
ing men of German name: Martin
Faulkner, 1880; Daniel Hast. 1880; Rob-
ert Knapp, 1851; Christopher Geist,
1884; william Gross. 1854; Richard
Schippe and John Leniger. 1888; Ru-
dolph Brandt, 1886: William Blanken-
stein. 1885; John Faulkner. 1885;
Thomas Faulkner. 1885; William Lange,
1891, and Robert Sadler. 1883.
The great tide Of immigration set
into Maryland from Pennsylvania with
in a few years after the current OF
German immigration had set in to
Pennsylvania and 1t was in 1710 that
the German tide set in to Pennsyl-
,,ont, r6aoa fS were PAL
atines. coming from the Rhine valley.
then the Palatinate. They were des-
perately poor people. Their territory
had been ravaged by war and they had
been reduced to the dfrest poverty. In
the thirty years war Tully and Maxi,
Ferdinand II. Emperor of Germany.
ravaged the Protestant lands OF the
Palatinate and the Protestants retail
ated against the lands Of Catholics.
and his troops destroyed everything
that could be burned or demolished
throughout the Palatinate. With the
revocation of the edict of Nantes in
1885. Huguenots moved from France to
the Palatinate and the French king
furnishing a refuge to these people.
The army Of Louvois despoiled what
had survived the armies Of Turenne or
had been reconstructed since the French
naQ tdlQ waste the ldhuS 1HSu CAHie
the war of the Spanish succession and
once more the Palatinate was ground
under the heel of troops. The crop
season OF 17os was a failure and the
winter of 170s-s was unusually long
and cold. Thousands of the people of
the Palatinate starved or froze.
In the midst Of these conditions the
agents Of William Penn appeared
among these stricken people and told
them rosy tales of opportunities Ia the
new world-the colony of Pennsyl-
vania- The people looked to it as the
land of promise, Hordes OF them
started for England. there to take pas
sage to America. They were a prob
lem to the English people. Public sub
scriptions were opened in England to
keep the strangers from starving.
Queen Anne had thousand army tents
set up near London for the shelter of
the unbidden guests. Efforts were
made to find work for the strangers
Thousands were sent into Ireland. and
their blood flows there today. Several
thousand were sent to the colony of
New York and settled mainly in the
Mohawk valley. The great majority
shipped for Pennsylvania Having no