This is a Message Board Post that is gatewayed to this mailing list. Classification: Query Message Board URL: http://boards.ancestry.com/mbexec/msg/rw/JOY.2ACEB/888.1 Message Board Post: Hi, Kyle- What little is known about the 3 small ships that arrived in Philadelphia in 1717 carrying Rev. Henckel, Valentine and John George Geiger, and others can be found in the introduction to the Strassburger and Hinke book Pennsylvania German Pioneers, Vol. 1, page xvii. "Another noteworthy group of Germans arrived in the year 1717. It was a group of Lutherans, headed by the Rev. Anthony Jacob Henckel and his son-in-law, Valentine Geiger. They arrived on one of three vessels which reached Philadelphia in September, 1717. On September 19, 1717, 'Capt. Richmond, Capt. Tower & Capt. Eyers, waited upon the [Provincial] Board with a List of Palatines they had imported here from London; by which list it appeared that Capt. Richmond had imported one undred & sixty-four, Capt. Tower ninety-one, and Capt. Evers one hundred and eight.' (from Colonial Records, Vol. III, p. 29.) In 1718, Anthony Jacob Henckel acquired a tract of 250 acres in Hanover township, where as Muehlenberg testifies, he 'ministered for a number of years to the first settlers of that regions.' (Halleshche Nachrichten, new edition, Vol. II, p. 353.) To the best of my knowledge the actual LISTS of the passengers are no longer in existence. In 1717, the requirement was not yet in place that the German immigrants take the oaths of allegiance and sign the pledges that later required the written records of their arrival in PA to be maintained. Joan