The Germans in Colonial Times

From the FOREWORD.

Singularly little is known of the magnitude of the German emigration to America in colonial times. The very fact of such a movement is commonly unknown to the American at the present day; and even the descendants of these Teutonic pioneers are often ignorant or—more inexcusably—ashamed of their progenitors, and have sought by anglicizing their names and lightly passing over the fact of their descent from "Dutchmen" to conceal the wide and deep traces which this movement ha...