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 himrey@ntelos.net

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 > himrey@ntelos.net > > > ==== GEIGER Mailing List ==== > Check out our GEIGER homepage at: http://homepages.rootsweb.com/~geiger/ > > ============================== > 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 >

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