Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from The Pennsylvania German Dialect
Another company Of Palatine Lutherans left London in the year 1708 under the direction of Rev. Josua Kocherthal, arrived in New York probably in December of the same year and settled at Newberg. In June, 1710, ten vessels set sail from London with more than 4000 Germans and, after a voyage of six months, arrived in New York. It is stated that 1700 died during the passage or immediately on landing. In the autumn, about 1400 Of the survivors were sent to Livingston's Manor on the Hudson. Of these, one hundred and fifty families went to Schoharie Valley in 1712, and some found a home on the frontiers of the Mohawk Valley.
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