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Excerpt from The First Germans in North America and the German Element of New Netherland Most of the early German settlers of Maryland came from Virginia, New Netherland and New Sweden. The best known are the Herrman and Hacke families, and Johann Lederer. Augfustin Herrman, who spent the most important time of his life in New Amsterdam, is known as the first surveyor of Maryland and designer of the first map of Lord Baltimore's colony; for this work he was granted a large tract of land in Cecil County (Bohemia Manor) Johann Lederer, a native of Hamburg, who immortalized himself as the discoverer of the Virginia Valley, was naturalized in J67I. The Labadists during their travels in Maryland meta settler named Commegys from Vienna and at a plantation "a person who spoke high Dutch ... a kind of proctor or advocate in the courts." Carolina The first German of renown who set foot on Carolina soil was Johann Lederer. This was in 1670. In the following year, perhaps in connection with his exploring tours, the colony "received a great addition to its strength" from Dutch people of New York. According to Bernheim, who claims he has his information from the old chroniclers, the majority of these Dutch were Lutherans. This, if true, would partly explain the disappearance of a number of German Lutherans from New York about this period. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.