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Sometimes people leave their home with the hopes of finding something better. Sometimes they are forced out and chased away. Philip Eamer and his wife, Catrina, experience both in this true story of immigrants searching for a place to call home. The Eamer family’s story begins in 1755 as they leave the Rhine Valley for a better life in America. Once there, they move to the Mohawk River Valley in New York, where they build a home and raise 10 children. Despite the effects of the French Indian War, the Eamers flourish and happily find their lives intertwined with their neighbours and fellow immigrants for almost two decades. However, no family’s story occurs in isolation, and eventually th...
A collection of documents supplementing the companion series known as "Colonial records," which contain the Minutes of the Provincial council, of the Council of safety, and of the Supreme executive council of Pennsylvania.
Phillip Hanes/Johann Philip Hoehns (b. 1692) was born in Zweibrucken, Bavaria, Germany. In 1738, he immigrated (with other Palatines) via Rotterdam to Philadelphia. Some descendants remained in Pennsylvania and others went to North Carolina. The family became prominent in the tobacco industry of Winston-Salem.
The personal property tax lists for the year 1787.