Ancestry.com - Swiss Emigrants in the 18th CenturyMember Login | My ALeonard HYER,OF THE SOUTH BRANCH. Migration from switzerland, to Tuliphocken,Berks,Pa,to South Branch,FROM ORIGINAL DOCUMENTS Search > Record Type > Swiss Emigrants in the 18th Century > Search ResultsMarch 6, 2000 ists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies: Volume 2 ZÜRICH TO CAROLINA AND PENNSYLVANIA, 1734-1744 INTRODUCTION THE CANTON OF BASEL AND THE CONDITIONS OF ITS INHABITANTS IN THE COUNTRY DISTRICTS Considerable time before the beginning of the year some eighteen subjects from Biel-Benken, Arisdorf and other places had come to Basel and expressed their desire to go to Carolina, but the Mayor had denied them the Chancery order to their Obervögte, and the Council had upheld his action (RP 108, Oct. 20, 1736). Still earlier the Council had learned of some 'plotting' at the house of the 'Lehnsmann,' fief holder or sub-tenant Lienert Heyer on the Rütihard, and ordered the Obervogt to look into the matter. The result of his investigation, embodied in his report of Sept. 4, 1736 (AA), was in substance as follows: Footnote This letter of Antony Gondy was printed for the first time in the American Historical Review (1916), Vol. XXII, pp. 115-117, among the Documents in Swiss Archives relating to Emigration to American Colonies in the Eighteenth Century, contributed by A. B. Faust. DISTRICTS page 111 Lienert Heyer's brother and Antoni Rieger of Benken and Jacob Küntzlin, a carpenter, and Hans Kapp, a wagon-maker, of Münchenstein had discussed emigration to Pennsylvania. They had been actuated to do so partly by the letter of Gondy1 in praise[p.111]of Carolina, written in Charleston, S. C., in 1733, but only lately come into their possession through a man of Grenzach across the Rhine, and partly by their own unfavorable circumstances. The carpenter and the wagon-maker had complained of the growing competition in their trades and all of them had arrived at the conviction that their heavy debts and the 5 percent interest they had to pay in consequence of the mandate (see Introduction) combined with the tithes of grain and wine made it impossible for them to sustain themselves here any longer. While Jacob Küntzlin and Hans Kapp gave up the thought of emigration for the present and did not go till three years later, Lienert Heyer and Antoni Rieger actively pushed their preparations and succeeded in obtaining the consent of the government. They claimed to have friends in the vicinity of Mannheim in the Palatinate and, if they did not find their fortunes there, they would seek it in another country. The following table of their families and their property is based on FAF and supplemented from AA and KB. LisICTS FAF Saturday, May 11, 1737. From Li Rudolf Lützler, of Benken, (60 years of age), Lolonies: Volume 2 ZÜRICH TO CAROLINA AND PENNSYLVANIA, 1734-1744 INTRODUCTION THE CANTON OF BASEL AND THE CONDITIONS OF ITS INHABITANTS IN THE COUNTRY DISTRICTS Lienert Heyer, his son-in-law from there, (41 years of age), and Clara Lützler, his wife, (32 years of age), who also intend to go to the Palatinate, Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies L Pro manumissione at lb. 10.........................30.— - Tax on lb. 1200 worth of Rudolf Lützler's property at 10 percent 120.— - Terms & Conditions | Privacy Statement | About Us | Partner with Us | Contact Us Copyright 1998-2000, MyFamily.com Inc. and its subsidiaries. Ancestry.com - Swiss Emigrants in the 18th CenturyMember Login | My ResultsMarch 6, 2000 Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American C Tax on their lb. 130 worth of property at 10 percent. 13.— Another daughter, by the name of Elsbeth, bapt. Dec. 20, 1716, did not emigrate, for according to KB of Rümlingen she came to Waldenburg in 1743 though her family in America longed very much for her. LiTHE CANTON OF BASEL AND THE CONDITIONS OF ITS INHABITANTS IN THE COUNTRY DISTRICTS The further experiences of the two families are known through a letter by Lienert Heyer written two years after his emigration and an entry in RP 129, Aug. 7, 1756. Lienert Heyer lost his youngest child, Clara, by the smallpox in England and the next youngest, Hans Ulrich, in America, but had another son Antoni. In 1739 he and Antoni Rieger were living at 'Dolben Hagen,' apparently meant for Tulpehocken, Pa. In 1756 the Junt brothers attest his presence in Virginia and report his willingness to renounce his claims to an inheritance in favor of his son-in-law who stayed in Switzerland. Besides it can hardly be amiss to recognize him in the Lieni who renders such generous assistance to Jacob Pfau, the writer of the unsigned letter of Sept. 17, 1750, printed by A. B. Faust, Jahrbuch der Deutsch-Amer. Ilisl. Ges. von Illinois, 1918 19. He took his fellow-villager with his family and his things all the way up from the coast to Frederikstown, Virginia. T Since Gerster speaks of the safe arrival of four families from Basel in Philadelphia this year, we have to look for two more and may find them in Martin Heggendorn or Heckendorn with his wife and children and Hans Itin and his wife. To be sure they petitioned only for permission to go to the Palatinate, or to Lorraine or the Palatinate (RP 108, Apr. 6 and 13), but they may likewise have used this only for a pretext, because permission to go to America would hardly have been obtainable this year. The entries in FAF are as follows: Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies Saturday, May 11, 1737. From Ilans Itin of Arristorff and Elsbeth Weber, his wife, who also intend to move away, pro Manumissione at lb. 10..........................20.— - Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies: Volume 2 Z Tax on lb. 150 worth of property 15.— (35.—) Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies: Volume 2 Saturday, May 25, 1737. From Martin Heckendorn and Ursula Jenni, his wife, of Langenbruck,for Manumission at lb. 10..........................20.— - Colonies: Volume 2 Z 10 percent tax on lb. 900 withdrawn 90.— (110.—) Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies: Volume 2 ZÜRICH TO CAROLINA AND PENNSYLVANIA, 1734-1744 Ipage 113 [p.113]Their seven children in KB: Elsbeth, bapt. March 2, 1718; Magdalena, March 19, 1719; Anna, Nov. 3, 1720; Sara, Nov. 7, 1723; Ursul, Nov. 3, 1726; Maria, Nov. 11, 1732; Barbara, Jan. 9, 1735. rms & Conditions | Privacy Statement | About Us | Partner with Us | Contact Us Copyright 1998-2000, MyFamily.com Inc. and its subsidiaries. ________________________________________________________________ YOU'RE PAYING TOO MUCH FOR THE INTERNET! Juno now offers FREE Internet Access! Try it today - there's no risk! For your FREE software, visit: http://dl.www.juno.com/get/tagj.