Falckner's Curieufe Machricht von Pennsylvania: The Book That Stimulated the Great German Emigration To Pennsylvania In the Early Years of the XVIII Century. A Reprint of the Edition of 1702, Amplified With the Text of the Original Manuscript In the Halle Archives. Together With An Introduction and English Translation of the Complete Work.

Publication

Historic Germantown

Name/Title

Falckner's "Curieufe Machricht von Pennsylvania": The Book That Stimulated the Great German Emigration To Pennsylvania In the Early Years of the XVIII Century. A Reprint of the Edition of 1702, Amplified With the Text of the Original Manuscript In the Halle Archives. Together With An Introduction and English Translation of the Complete Work.

Entry/Object ID

2014.28.1767

Description

Hard cover, 248 pages. This volume is a reprint of the 1702 original work by Daniel Falckner, which consisted of 73 questions posed to him when he returned to Germany from Pennsylvania in 1699, and his answers. That manuscript apparently spurred the German emigration to Pennsylvania. This book contains a reprint of the original German and the English translation. A bookplate found Inside the Front Cover indicates that htis book was a gift to the Site and Relic Society of Germantown (now known as The Germantown Historical Society) by Charles F. Jenkins in December, 1910.

Collection

Germantown Historical Society Library Collection

Publication Details

Author

Sachse, Julius Friedrich

Publisher

Julius Friedrich Sachse

Place Published

* Untyped Place Published

Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

Call No.

P-4, 9