Pre-1820 Emigration from Germany: Difference between revisions

Bell, Winthrop Pickard, The "foreign Protestants" and the settlement of Nova Scotia&nbsp;: the history of a piece of arrested British colonial policy in the eighteenth century. [Toronto, Ontario]&nbsp;: University of Toronto Press,1961. FHL US/Can&nbsp;971.63 F2b .<br>Huber, Paul and Eva, ed.,&nbsp;''European Origins and Colonial Travails: The Settlement of Lunenburg,&nbsp;''&nbsp;Halifax, N.S., Messenger Publications, 2003.&nbsp;For more information, including a list of settlers' names, see [http://www.lunenburgsettlers.com/english/index_en.html http://www.lunenburgsettlers.com/english/index_en.html]  

Even if you are not researching a family from New York, New England, or Nova Scotia, you perhaps should check out these sources as well. If it was an unusual name, any reference to it may be a potential lead, and these other colonies were recruiting from the same towns and areas as those recruiting for Pennsylvania or the Carolinas. In fact, often members of the same family ended up in different colonies. For example, the Heyler family came to Boston (Waldoboro, Maine) in 1742, but also had close relatives from the same village in Germany that settled in New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and South Carolina.<br>