Miscellany regarding German redemptioners, 1771-1819 and n.d.

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Miscellany regarding German redemptioners, 1771-1819 and n.d.

Miscellany regarding German redemptioners, 1771-1819 and n.d.

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Miscellaneous papers relating to the transportation of German redemptioners to the United States, of which 28 are transcripts of orginals, not all of which are located; also relating to the Philadelphia mercantile firms of Etienne Dutilh and Manuel Eyre, Jr., partcularly in trade with Dutch ports from which German redemptioners embarked. Included are letters from the firm of Kunckel, Ruys & Co. of Amsterdam (1802-1803) concerning the 1802 voyage of the ship "Devotion" to Philadelphia with a cargo of redemptioners, with details on the methods pursued, costs, profits expected, and character of the passengers. For the list of these passengers, see Pennsylvania Archives, 2nd Series, XVII, pp. 589-591. Other items are: affidavit of Anthony Mylius, notary public of Amsterdam, concerning the passage money of J. Jongeling aboard the "Devotion," 1803; invoices for grindstones and spirits shipped aboard the "Devotion," 1802; letter of William Waters, captain of the "Devotion," to Manuel Eyre, 1802, on outward voyage with cargo of cotton; letter of Waters to Eyre, 1802, from Amsterdam, announcing price of passage for redemptioners; indenture of Ernestina Weinelin, binding herself to Manuel Eyre for her passage from Amsterdam ($72), 1802, with receipt for balance due her in 1805; bond of E. Dutilh & Co. to John Jones, 1787, as surety for Mathew Eiker, then in the marine hospital on Province Island, Philadelphia, a passenger in the ship "Dorothea" from Rotterdam; receipt of Solomon de Water for E. Dutilh & Co. to the Rev. (later Archbishop) John Carroll, 1787, for passage from Rotterdam aboard the "Dorothea" of two priests, Petrus Heilbrun and Johann Baptist Heilbrun. Also: indenture of Elisabeth Ackerman binding herself to Johann Lewis Barde, 1794, with endorsement of further assignment; letter of Dirk Bakker, mate of the ship "Dorothea," to E. Dutilh & Co., 1788, requesting them to advertise for runaways from the "Dorothea" upon arrival at Philadelphia; indenture of Clemens Rentzen and Peter Grund, binding themselves to Robert E. Hobart & Co., 1793, for passage from Amsterdam; letters of Carl Frederick Raeder setting forth his defense in a legal action against him concerning his voyage to America aboard the "Kathline" and the bad condtions that prevailed on the trip, 1805; receipts for passage money paid in behalf of Mathys Kraus, 1772 (by Willing & Morris), and of George A. Schimp (by Stewart & Nesbitt), both at Philadelphia; nine notes of German passengers to Capt. John Feder [Veder], for funds advanced at Amsterdam, 1784, payable on arrival at Philadelphia Also: list of passengers aboard the "Dispatch," Capt. John Feder [Veder], with their freight and expenses, 1784; agreement between passengers and Phineas Eldridge, master of the brig "Amiable Creole," 1799, for voyage from Hamburg to Philadelphia; letter of Mark Bird, Jonathan Potts, and Thomas Dundas, justices of the peace for Berks County, Pa., to John William Miller, 1774, concerning an action by the magistrates of Erbach, Germany, on behalf of Ludwig Miller to recover funds advanced on his passage to America; contract of Jacob Volckel with Gerhard Wolters & Sons of Rotterdam, 1787, for passage to Philadelphia aboard the "Dorothea"; notice of Joseph K. Stapleton of Baltimore for the recovery of a redemptioner, Maurice Schumacher, from the National Intelligencer, April 15, 1817; noticeto the heirs of John George Schreider, from Newkerchen, Germany, and his wife Anna Elizabeth Young, to appear for a settlement of an estate. The transcripts are included in a 46 page typescript, of unknown authorship, apparently prepared for publication. Those documents, for which no originals are reported above, include: letter of Capt. Jacob Veder of the "Dispatch" to Etienne Dutilh, 1785, from Reedy Island, Delaware Bay, containing details about the voyage and his cargo of redemptioners; accounts received from Philip Gross, George Hatzung and wife, Peter Conver (for Johann C. Sprecher and Regine Abelzen), John Tobigh, and William Kasman, passengers aboard the "Dispatch," 1785; agreement of Dutilh concerning the "Dorothea," and indenture of Johannes Betz and wife to Samuel Wallis; letter of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, president of the German Society, to R.E. Hobart & Co., 1796, complaining about the treatment of a redemptioner at the Hobart forge in Chester County, Pa., with Hobart's reply; letters of William Waters, captain of the "Devotion," to Manuel Eyre, 1802; letters of Kunckel, Ruys & Co. of Amsterdam to Manuel Eyre, 1802, concerning business and redemptioners; statement of expenses for provisioning the "Devotion" at Amsterdam, 1802; account of Capt. William Waters with Kunckel, Ruys & Co., for passengers on the "Devotion," with record of provisions and supplies, 1802; testimony of Elisabeth Ackerman, ca. 1810, concerning her voyage to America, her indenture, and her life in Pennsylvania.

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