Records of the Verein zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas, 1842-1864.

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Records of the Verein zum Schutze Deutscher Einwanderer in Texas, 1842-1864.

Selections relating to the society's activities for the protection of German immigrants.

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Adelsverein

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The Adelsverein, also known as the Verein zum Schutze deutscher Einwanderer in Texas (Society for the Protection of German Immigrants in Texas), and later as the German Emigration Company, was provisionally organized on April 20, 1842, by twenty-one German noblemen at Biebrich on the Rhine, near Mainz. The Adelsverein was composed of German noblemen whose intent was to settle emigrants on the Fisher-Miller Land Grant in Texas, but instead they became the founders of New Braunfels and Freder...