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• A Collection Of Upwards Of Thirty Thousand Names Of German, Swiss, Dutch, French And Other Immigrants In Pennsylvania From 1727 To 1776 : With A Statement Of The Names Of Ships, Whence They Sailed, And The Date Of Their Arrival At Philadelphia, Chronology is the second edition of the publication, the publication was originally published in 1856 as a monthly serial of 24 pages.

As quoted by Professor I. Daniel Rupp in the preface, ‘The second edition is a carefully revised one and much improved. The names of males, not sixteen years of age, are inserted immediately under those above sixteen years old, instead of presenting them in the Appendix. There have also been added enlarged lists of names of first settlers at Germantown, of early settlers in Lancaster County, in Tulpehocken, Berks County, &c.

This collection contains upwards of thirty thousand names, &c., and some historical and biographical notes. The present descendants of the early German, Swiss and French immigrants, now numbering millions living in Pennsylvania, New York, Maryland, Virginia, and in the Western States, will be enabled, of they procure this publication, to ascertain the time of their ancestors’ arrival and other facts of value to most of them.’