4/13/22 Brown Bag Lecture - Earliest German Settlers in North America

The first German-speaking immigrant families arrived in Philadelphia in October 1683 to settle permanently in Pennsylvania. This talk features brief sketches of Germans in the Revolutionary War as well as how they moved westward at the end of the war.

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My Father's ancestor, Johannes Freidrick Zenger, arrived on the Lydia to Phillidelphia via Copenhagen in 1726. He was Granted Land in Derry Township, PA.

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In southwest Virginia the Dunkers are called Dunkards or German Baptists. They dress much the same as Mennonites or Amish.