"In 1723 under the guidance of the Indians a road was cut from the Schoharie to the Susquehanna. Over this thirty-three families transported their goods. Canoes and rafts were built, and most of the people were thus carried to thie new home, while the cattle were driven along the bank. Down the Susquehanna they went to the mouth of the Swatara, to the Tulpehocken, and thence settlements were formed along that creek. Thus they became pioneers of portions of Daupin, Lebanon and Berks counties. A tradition current in the Schoharie settlement, which may be given for what it is worth, states that twelve of the horses of the Tulpehocken colony not approving the change broke loose, twelve of them arriving in good condition at Schoharie a year and a half after their removal, having completed a journey of over three hundred miles! A partial list of the Schoharie immigrants to the Tulpehocken region has been included by Mr. Rupp in Appendix XIV, of his invaluable book. Five years later, they were followed by others. The younger Weiser states that the settlement was made in Pennsylvania without the consent of the Proprietary of Pennsylvania or his commissionaries, and against the will of the Indians. For a considerable time, they were without any law or government. The older Weiser did not accompany the expedition he had projected; the younger removed to Tulpehocken from Schoharie in 1729. The preceeding year, fifteen heads of families had petitioned for the right of purchasing land, stating that fifty other families were in the same circumstances, and desired the same privilige. Meanwhile during all these years the immigration to Pennsylvania had proceeded, notwithstanding the diversion to the Carolinas and New York. The cruel diversion of a large number of Germans to Louisiana in 1716 in connection with the so-called Mississippi bubble of John Law and the death of the vast majority was an episode that only made Pennsylvania more popular. The Palatines spread the story of their wrongs far and wide among their kinsmen in Germany, and turned the tide whither it had been first directed by the efforts and invitations of Penn. Peter Kalm, the Swedish naturalist, who visited this country in 1748, writes: 'The Germans wrote to their relatives and friends, and advised them, if ever they intended to come to America, not to go to New York, where the Government had shown itself to be inequitable. This advice had so much nifluence taht the Germans who afterwards went in great numbers to North America, constantly avoided New York, and always went to Pennsylvania. It sometimes happened that they were forced to go on board such ships as were bound for New York, but they were scarcely got on shore, before they hastened to Pennsylvania, in sight of all the inhabitants of New York.' tbc