. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. y must comply with their con-tracts and that the Society would not countenance theirattempt to evade their honest obligations. Herein the So-ciety manifested its desire to deal fairly with Shipmasters aswell as with the poor people they brought It deserves to be stated that, in addition to the large num-ber of Germans who went to Maryland from Pennsylvania,there was also considerable immigration into that Statethrough the port of Annapolis. From the entries at thatcity we learn the fact that from 1752 to 1755, 1,060 Ger-man immigrant
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. y must comply with their con-tracts and that the Society would not countenance theirattempt to evade their honest obligations. Herein the So-ciety manifested its desire to deal fairly with Shipmasters aswell as with the poor people they brought It deserves to be stated that, in addition to the large num-ber of Germans who went to Maryland from Pennsylvania,there was also considerable immigration into that Statethrough the port of Annapolis. From the entries at thatcity we learn the fact that from 1752 to 1755, 1,060 Ger-man immigrants arrived there ; in 1752, 150 ; in 1753, 460 ;and in 1755, 450. They are spoken of as 1611 desire to express my acknowledgment for many of the foregoingfacts relating to the Redemptioners of Maryland, to the excellent little Louis P. , Esq., to which I have already referred. 162 Publications of the Society for the History of the Germans in Mary-land, for 1S90-1S91, pp. 18-19. 282 The Pennsylvania-German Condition of Redemptioners in Maryland. 283 No public records were kept of the contracts enteredinto abroad by the Redemptioners (of Man-land) nor of thetime of the expiration of their service. The Redemptionerswere not furnished with duplicates of their contracts. Theycould be, and sometimes were, mortgaged, hired out for ashorter period, sold and transferred like chattel by theirmasters. {Maryland Archives, 1637-50, pp. 132-486.)The Redemptioners, belonging to the poor and most ofthem to the ignorant class, it is apparent that under thesecircumstances were at a great disadvantage against rapa-cious masters, who kept them in servitude afterthe expira-tion of their true contract time, claiming their services for alonger period. As the number of slaves increased in the colony, andlabor became despised, the Redemptioner lost caste andthe respect which is accorded to working people in non-slave-holding communities. He was in many respec
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