The story of the Pennsylvania Germans
by William Beidelman
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About this eBook
- Author
- Beidelman, William, 1840-1903
- Title
- The story of the Pennsylvania Germans : embracing an account of their origin, their history, and their dialect
- Original Publication
- Easton: Express Book Print, 1898.
- Credits
- Carla Foust, Charlene Taylor and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at www.pgdp.net (This file was produced from images generously made available by The Internet Archive/American Libraries.)
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- F106: United States local history: Atlantic coast. Middle Atlantic States
- Subject
- Pennsylvania Dutch
- Category
- Text
- Project Gutenberg
- eBook-No. 77784
- Release Date
- January 26, 2026
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Untitled
- 2.The Story of the Pennsylvania Germans
- 3.Untitled
- 4.DEDICATED
- 5.PREFATORY NOTE.
- 6.CONTENTS.
- 7.CHAPTER I. INTRODUCTION. — FOOTNOTES:
- 8.CHAPTER II. THE PALATINATE,—(GERMAN PFALZ).
- 9.CHAPTER III. THE DEVASTATION OF THE PALATINATE.
- 10.CHAPTER IV. THE PROVINCE OF PENNSYLVANIA.
- 11.CHAPTER V. GERMAN EMIGRATION TO PENNSYLVANIA.
- 12.CHAPTER VI. GERMAN IMMIGRANTS IN SOME OF THE OTHER AMERICAN COLONIES.
- 13.CHAPTER VII. THE QUAKERS, GERMANS, AND THE PROPRIETORS.
- 14.CHAPTER VIII. THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMANS IN HISTORY.
- 15.CHAPTER IX. THE PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN DIALECT.
- 16.CHAPTER X. THE GERMAN AND DUTCH LANGUAGES.
- 17.CHAPTER XI. SCHOOLS, CHURCHES, AND RELIGIOUS SECTS.
- 18.CHAPTER XII. SOCIAL LIFE AND DOMESTIC CUSTOMS.
- 19.CHAPTER XIII. LIFE IN PENNSYLVANIA IN THE EARLY DAYS.
- 20.APPENDIX A. EXAMPLES OF PFÄLZISCH, AND SOUTH GERMAN DIALECTS.
- 21.APPENDIX B. VOCABULARY.
- 22.APPENDIX C.
- 23.APPENDIX D. A CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE OF ALL THE REIGNING PRINCES OF THE PALATINATE.
- 24.APPENDIX E. GLOSSARY.
- 25.Transcriber’s note
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