. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. er authorities place them at a far highernumber. Conrad Weiser, in his old ageand without actual data for his estimate,places the loss at 1,700, which is muchtoo high. The best authorities placethe number at 859, showing a mortalityof more than 25 per cent. Boehmestates that Of some families neitherparents nor children survive. Eighty SEAL OF GERMANare said to have died on a single ship,with most of the living ill. It deserves also to be statedthat the children of these maltreated immigrants were byorder of Governor Hunter apprenticed among t
. The Pennsylvania-German Society : [Publications]. er authorities place them at a far highernumber. Conrad Weiser, in his old ageand without actual data for his estimate,places the loss at 1,700, which is muchtoo high. The best authorities placethe number at 859, showing a mortalityof more than 25 per cent. Boehmestates that Of some families neitherparents nor children survive. Eighty SEAL OF GERMANare said to have died on a single ship,with most of the living ill. It deserves also to be statedthat the children of these maltreated immigrants were byorder of Governor Hunter apprenticed among the colonists,which act was bitterly resented by the parents. It was oneof the first of the long series of wrongs that befell was no doubt the sorrowful experience of these ten ship-loads of Germans that thereafter turned all the immigrantstowards Pennsylvania. But one more ship with Palatineswent to New York, and that was in 1772. It is even pos-sible this ship was carried out of its course and made portat New York instead of 200 The Pennsylvania-German Society. Christopher Saur in his first letter to Governor Morrisasserts that in a single year two thousand German immi-grants found ocean burial while on their way to Pennsyl-vania. Caspar Wistar wrote in 1732 : Last year a ship wastwenty-four weeks at sea, and of the 150 passengers onboard thereof, more than 100 died of hunger and privation,and the survivors were imprisoned and compelled to paythe entire passage-money for themselves and the this year 10 ships arrived in Philadelphia with 5,000passengers. One ship was seventeen weeks at sea andabout 60 passengers thereof died. Christopher Saur in 1758 estimated that 2,000 of thepassengers on the fifteen ships that arrived that year, diedduring the voyage. Johann Heinrich Keppele, who afterwards became thefirst president of the German Society of Pennsylvania, saysin his diary that of the 312^ passengers on board the shipin which he came over, 25
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