Thank you! ----- Original Message ----- From: "Harriet Imrey" <himrey@ntelos.net> To: <GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 6:43 PM Subject: Re: [GEIGER] Fw: First settlers of Orangeburgh and Saxegotha > It's Leo Schelbert, America Experienced: Eighteenth and Nineteenth Century > Accounts of Swiss Immigrants to the United States. (Camden ME: Picton Press, > 1996, 2004). > > Perhaps it's just my personal-taste that says "this is real fun to read", > but check-it-out for yourself. > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "B. W. Wright" <dww1962@bellsouth.net> > To: <GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:52 PM > Subject: Re: [GEIGER] Fw: First settlers of Orangeburgh and Saxegotha > > > What is the name of the book? > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Harriet Imrey" <himrey@ntelos.net> > To: <GEIGER-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, August 10, 2004 5:27 PM > Subject: [GEIGER] Fw: First settlers of Orangeburgh and Saxegotha > > Mea culpa! Should have copied to this List as well, since several > Geiger-correspondents are interested in the voyage of the ship Prince of > Wales in 1736/7 from Rotterdam to Charleston. People onboard wrote letters > about it, and those letters have been published. I absolutely LOVED reading > this book, and other people interested in the Geiger immigrants to SC might > well like it as much as I do. > > The book does NOT include the John Tobler diaries, where he says exactly > what he thinks about Herman Geiger (a "useless person" who "swears and > curses"). I doubt if the Geigers thought very highly of John Tobler either! > But the material in this book is well-worth-reading, for anybody with an > interest in immigration to colonial South Carolina. > > > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: Harriet Imrey > > > To: ORANGEBURGH_SC-L@rootsweb.com > > > Cc: SCLEXING-L@rootsweb.com > > > Sent: Saturday, May 22, 2004 4:21 PM > > > Subject: First settlers of Orangeburgh and Saxegotha > > The first Swiss settlers who arrived in SC and settled Orangeburgh (current > Orangeburg, also Saxegotha to the north and New Windsor to the south) wrote > letters back to Switzerland about what they saw there. Several of those > letters were translated and published in Leo Schelbert's America > Experienced--a 1996 book which has been out-of-print. It's recently been > reissued in paperback. Check www.pictonpress.com. Cost is $29.95 plus $4 > S&H. > > Letters included are (in chronological order by ship-of-arrival): > Ship William, Feb 1735: Jakob Gallmann of Saxegotha. > Ship Samuel, Jul 1735: Hans Georg Strigger, leader of the Bernese group > that settled Orangeburgh Township; Dr. Fridolin Hilti; Hanss Danner. > Ship Prince of Wales, Feb 1737: Johannes Tobler, leader of the Appenzeller > group that settled New Windsor Township; Sebastian Zuberbühler, organizer of > the voyage; Johann Ulrich Giezendanner, first minister in Orangeburgh; Hans > Wernhard Trachsler, who went back to Switzerland ASAP. > > The book covers all Swiss emigrants of the 18th and 19th centuries. It's > perhaps a coincidence that such a large proportion of the letter-writers > happened to be among the earliest settlers of Orangeburgh! If your library > doesn't have a copy, encourage them to get one while this print-run is still > available. It's a "must-read" for anybody who's tracking their families > back to Orangeburgh or Saxegotha in 1735-7. > > First-settler Strigger took one look at the primeval forests of the American > frontier (that was Orangeburgh SC at the time) and skedaddled to > Philadelphia immediately. Other people who had come over with him liked it > and stayed there. And they even wrote letters about why they did. > > Harriet Imrey > > > > ==== GEIGER Mailing List ==== > Messages posted to the RootsWeb/Ancestry GEIGER Message Board are gatewayed to this Mailing List. Remember that the author of gatewayed messages may not be a GEIGER list subscriber so please reply to gatewayed messages by clicking on the link and replying on the board and/or include the author in your e-mail reply. > > ============================== > Gain access to over two billion names including the new Immigration > Collection with an Ancestry.com free trial. Click to learn more. > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=4930&sourceid=1237 > >