[APG Public List] costs of emigration

[Rolgeiger at aol.com]

Hello, 
 
Next week they will have a lecture here about emigration from Germany to  
the British Colonies in North America in 18th Century. I know that fellow who 
 will talk and his main object or better main reason for emigration is 
pauperism.  He says people were poor and heard that America was the country 
where milk and  honeys flows from the hills and so they emigrated. Lots of them. 
 
I don't agree with this idea. No matter whether they money or not, someone  
had to pay the bill for the passage. 
 
Any idea who paid the bill and how much the costs of the trip may have  
been?
 
Thanks. 
 
Mit freundlichen Gruessen
 
Roland Geiger  

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Roland Geiger
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