. The Keim and allied families in America and Europe . ;f Germany. !!<• arrived ni New Amsterdam (New York) in that year inthe service of the West India 1647 he was one of the counsellorsof the testy Dutch governor Stuyvesant,and had acquired a large property. In1660 for making the first map of Mary-land Lord Baltimore conveyed to himan estate, Bohemia Manor, ofprincely dimensions between the headof the Chesapeake and the DelawareBays. There he built a manor houseand lived in baronial splendor, as didseveral generations of his race afterhim. We hear nothing more of Germansin Amer
. The Keim and allied families in America and Europe . ;f Germany. !!<• arrived ni New Amsterdam (New York) in that year inthe service of the West India 1647 he was one of the counsellorsof the testy Dutch governor Stuyvesant,and had acquired a large property. In1660 for making the first map of Mary-land Lord Baltimore conveyed to himan estate, Bohemia Manor, ofprincely dimensions between the headof the Chesapeake and the DelawareBays. There he built a manor houseand lived in baronial splendor, as didseveral generations of his race afterhim. We hear nothing more of Germansin America, except Heinrich Frey,who arrived in Pennsylvania before1682, until the arrival of the pioneerMenonite (German Quaker) colonyfrom Crefeld, Germany, on the lowerRhine, near the border of Holland. Francis Daniel Pastorius, their ad-vance agent, landed with his, family andten fellow Germans and Frances Simp-son, an English maid, in August, 1683,at Philadelphia. The colony followeda lew weeks later and located in Octo- THE KEIM AND ALLIED THE :< PLANTATION OF JOHANNES KKIM, THK FOUNDKR. The illustration represents the homestead (1897) of the Founder and birthplace of the race and name ofKeim in America. The sketch plan on page 11 will locate the buildings. The last 119 of the ancestral acresremained in the family name until 1895, a period of 188 years since they were occupied and 175 years since-they were warranted and surveyed and afterward patented to Johannes Keim, yeoman. The persons inthe picture beginning on the right are Frederick D. Owen, Washington, D, C; DeB. Randolph Keim ; MissKeim, daughter; beymour deB. Keim, nephew; Mrs. Keim, wife; Rev. H. W. Warmkessel, of the LutheranChurch; a domestic; Mrs. Moyer, residing on the place; Israel Keim; and a of Mrs. Meyer. ber, 1683, under the immediate eye ofPerm, the founder himself, in the pic-turesque vale of Wingohocking. This pioneer emigration, consistingof thirteen families or thirty-three in-d
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