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- Title
Exporting Mennonites and Other Undesirables.
- Abstract
The article chronicles several developments in Europe that impacted the colonization plans of Swiss explorer Frantz Ludwig Michel and others who were endeavoring to establish settlements in colonial America in the early 1700s. The article focuses upon the expulsion of Mennonites from Bern, Switzerland. It discusses efforts by Swiss merchant Geörg Ritter to transport Mennonites out of Switzerland to Holland, and the intervention of Pennsylvania founder William Penn in an attempt to allow the Mennonite exiles to settle in Pennsylvania. The article also examines a contract between Michel and Swiss explorer Christoph von Graffenried with Ritter and business partner Peter Isoth combining the interests of the parties in the provinces of North Carolina, Virginia, and Pennsylvania.
- Subjects
PENNSYLVANIA; SWITZERLAND; NORTH America; MICHEL, Frantz Ludwig; LAND settlement; MENNONITES; EVARTS, Jeremiah, 1781-1831; EXILES; RITTER, Geoerg; GRAFFENRIED, Christoph von, Baron, 1661-1743; JOINT ventures; COLONIAL Pennsylvania, ca. 1600-1775; HISTORY
- Publication
Pennsylvania Mennonite Heritage, 2011, Vol 34, Issue 2, p46
- ISSN
0148-4036
- Publication type
Article