Verein zum Schutze deutscher Einwandererin Texas Records 1842-1858

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Verein zum Schutze deutscher Einwandererin Texas Records 1842-1858

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The Adelsverein, also known as theVerein zum Schutze deutscher Einwanderer in Texas (Society for the Protection ofGerman Immigrants in Texas), and later as the German Emigration Company, wasprovisionally organized on April 20, 1842, by twenty-one German noblemen at Biebrichon the Rhine, near Mainz. The Adelsverein was composed of German noblemen whoseintent was to settle emigrants on the Fisher-Miller Land Grant in Texas, but insteadthey became the founders of New Braunfels and Fredericksburg and ran up a huge debtthat they were never able to repay. Correspondence, legal and financial records, andinventories comprise the Verein zum Schutze deutscher Einwanderer in Texas Records,which document the society’s operations. The materials are primarily in German. Therecords make up the portion of the Archiv Verein zum Schutze deutscher Einwandererin Texas, which went missing in Germany after 1931.

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