Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . he year 1772,in Lowhill township, the same County. Further research brings to notice that in the year 1739 twoGerman emigrants came on the same ship from Rotterdam, onenamed Yost Delhi, the other Yost Eberkerst; Deal and Overcastare the Anglicized form of Deihl and Eberkerst, which theyno doubt adopted upon their arrival in America, as did the familyof Zimmerman, one branch of which preferred to be known as Car-penter, the English version of the name.
Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . he year 1772,in Lowhill township, the same County. Further research brings to notice that in the year 1739 twoGerman emigrants came on the same ship from Rotterdam, onenamed Yost Delhi, the other Yost Eberkerst; Deal and Overcastare the Anglicized form of Deihl and Eberkerst, which theyno doubt adopted upon their arrival in America, as did the familyof Zimmerman, one branch of which preferred to be known as Car-penter, the English version of the name. The two families of Deihl and Eberkerst came on a shippeopled with 213 others, all of them from the Rhineland fleeingfrom German oppression and persecution. These immigrants were of the industrious enterprising class,to whom conditions in the Palatinate had become so intolerablethat they gladly took advantage of the possibilities of the newland of America, willing to risk the hardships and privations of aventure into the unknown, because of their hope for was because of the tolerance of William Penn, and the absolute [ 588].
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