Swiss Emigrants to Carolina and Pennsylvania

Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies, Zurich to Carolina and Pennsylvania: The Canton of Basel and the conditions of its inhabitants in the Country Districts, Albert Bernhard Faust and Gaius Marcus Brumbaugh, Originally pub by the Nat'l Genealogical Soc, 1920 and republished by Genealogical Pub Co, Baltimore, 1976, 2 Vols in 1, [TRL 929.3 F134]

"Manumission" was the term used to free the emigrants to legally leave for America.

This book is a transcription of documents in Switzerland detailing the emigration details of people leaving for America.

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1749, Binningen, Stopfel Seiler, baker, 43 years of age, ten percent tax, manumission paid. Barbara Schultheiss from Richen his wife, 38.
Remained at first in the vicinity of Philadelphia.
Their children.
Matthias bapt 12 Nov 1730
Barbara, bap 21 Jun 1733
Hans Jacob, bap 12 Jun 1735
Anna Maria, bap 27 Oct 1737
Margareth, bap 5 Mar 1740
Emanuel, bap 28 Oct 1742 2. Pg. 147

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  1749, Bottmingen, Jacob Seyler, Hans Jacob, tailor, 51, ten percent tax, manumission paid. Wife Chrischona Brodbeck, 42.
Children:
Elsbeth, bap Nov 19, 1730
Anna Maria, Nov 23, 1732
Hans Jacob, Jun 2, 1737
Johannes, Jun 12, 1740
Barbara, Sep 22, 1743
Is an honest citizen. There is a letter of his printed by A.B. Faust in the American Hist Rev, XXII, pp 119-121 in which he expresses the relief he feels in Penna.

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1749, Bottmingen, Margaretha Seyler, 40, wife of Hans Ulrich Spar, age 40. Their 9 children are listed.

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1749, Muttenz, Hans Seiler, Heinrich's son, unmarried, bap Feb 8, 1718. Appears to be identical with hans Seiler who intended to emigrate in 1740. Has always been honest in his dealings.

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. 1749, Muttenz, Martin Seiler, Day labourer, 37, his wife Elisabeth Heyd, 31.

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1752, Bottmingen (Munchenstein)
Fridlin Seyler, KB Friederich, son of Theodor, deceased. Anna Catharina Spaar, Sparr, his wife. Their children:
1. Matthies, bapt............................. Dec.    16, 1738
2. Hans Ulrich, bapt........................... July      7, 1743
3. Hans Jacob, bapt...........................Apr.     17, 1746
Several entries in RP (125, 271, 299 and 342) show that the Council occupied itself repeatedly with his clandestine and fraudulent emigration.    Nevertheless his three sons obtained in 1770 (RP 143, 80) the release of their property and their manumission. The entry in MP is as follows: Matthias, Ulrich and Hans Jacob Seyler, legitimate sons of Fridlin Sailer and Catharina Sparr of Botmingen, who have settled in Pennsylvania, have been manumitted together with their still living mother, who is also staying with them, by Our Gracious Lords March 28, 1770.    Their property consisted of 572 pounds on which 'Herr Landvogt' on Munchenstein has collected the ten percent tax.
Pay: Manumission..................................40.—
Letters....................................... 6.—'    46.—
At that time the sons were all married and located in Carlisle, Pa., the one being a tinner, the other a locksmith and the third a saddler. Their stepbrother Leonhard Low, whom we meet in 1763, seems to have emigrated with them in 1752 and gone back to live in the Canton of Basel once more until 1763.