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PREFACE TO THE IMPROVED EDITION.
To meet the often-repeated requests of many who were
anxious to ascertain, if possible, when such and such persons
came to Pennsylvania, the Editor copied carefully
the original Lists of the Names of German, Swiss and
other immigrants on File in the Secretary's Office, at
Harrisburg, and published an edition of Ä Collection
of Thirty Thousand Names, &c,., in 1856.*
The first edition is now out of print, and cannot be
had at any price. From $5 to $7 have been paid within
the last five years for second-hand copies.
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, if they procure this
Publication, to ascertain the time of their ancestors' arrival,
and other facts of value to most of them.
*Tlie first edition was published in a Monthly Serial of 24 pages.
Soon after issuing the first number, the Editor received orders for the
Collection from persons in New York, New Jersey, Maryland, Virginia,
North Carolina, Ohio, Kentucky and other Western States,
and from persons in many counties in Pennsylvania.
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