LANTZ GENEALOGY

          In 1719 Johnathan Dickinson remarked, we are daily
     expecting ships from London which bring over Palatines in
     number about six or seven thousand.  We had a parcel that
     came over about five years ago, who purchased land about
     six miles west of Philadelphia and have proved quiet and
     industrious.
          In 1708 and 1709 thirty thousand, on the invitation of
     Queen Anne, left their homes in the Rhine country near
     Pfalz, the Castle of Speyer, for London, where some twelve
     or thirteen thousand arrived in the summer of 1708, these
     for some time were in destitute condition.  They were wholly
     dependent upon the charity of the inhabitants of the English
     Metropolis.  Then in the years of 1709 and 1710 there were
     quite a number left Heidelburg, Germany, because of religi-
     ous prosecutions, the elector of Palatine, Frederick II
     embraced the Lutheran faith, Frederick III, became a Cal-
     vinist, Lodoic V restored the Lutheran church, his son and
     successor became a Calvinist and this prince was succeeded
     by a Catholic family who oppressed the Protestants.  And
     last of all they left the homeland to escape the horrors of
     war; the troops of Louis XIV under Turenne were the stern
     prelude to bloody persecution to escape the dreadful suffer-
     ing awaiting them.  German and other Protestant emigrants
     came to the English colonies in America.
          From 1682 to 1776 Pennsylvania was the central point
     of emigration from Germany, France and Switzerland.
     Pennsylvania's liberal views and the illiberal course of the
     government of New York toward the Germans induced many
     to go to Pennsylvania.
          Now of the thirty thousand Germans that entered
     London in the years of 1708 and 1709 on the invitation of
     Queen Anne, seven thousand after suffering great priva-
     tions, returned half naked to the Fatherland of Germany.
     Ten thousand died for the want of sustenance, medical at-
     tendance and other causes.  Some perished on ships, the
     survivors were transported in English ships to America.
     Several thousand had embarked for Sicily Island, a group
     southwest of England, but never reached their intended
     destination.  Ten sails of vessels were freighted with upward
     of four thousand Germans for New York, they departed the
     25th day of December 1709, and after six months of tedious
     voyage reached New York, June 14th, 1710.  On the inward
     passage and immediately on landing seventeen hundred died,
     the survivors were encamped in tents they brought with
     them from England, on Nutting Island, now Governor's

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