<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"> <HTML><HEAD> <META http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=US-ASCII"> <META content="MSHTML 6.00.6000.16945" name=GENERATOR></HEAD> <BODY id=role_body style="FONT-SIZE: 10pt; COLOR: #000000; FONT-FAMILY: Arial" bottomMargin=7 leftMargin=7 topMargin=7 rightMargin=7><FONT id=role_document face=Arial color=#000000 size=2> <DIV>Hello, </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Thanks to all who answered on my request this evening (it's 11 p.m. here in Germany now). </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Two years ago there was a seminar in Kaiserslautern, Germany. Among others Philipp Otterness from New York was speaking - he read a summary from his exceptional book "Becoming German" about the first mass emigration of the so-called Palatines through England to the New York Colony and their life with the Indians - the summary was called "Promised Land" and I had the chance to translate it into German.</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>You can find part of the book through google-books: <A href="http://books.google.de/books?id=e17IQ9aFkJwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=becoming+german&source=bl&ots=UpcoT8b0EM&sig=Q4L_xQ9o76SHGV6mRbJ3FTCuY_M&hl=de&ei=ZwRXTayoN8nDhAeH85XmDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false">http://books.google.de/books?id=e17IQ9aFkJwC&printsec=frontcover&dq=becoming+german&source=bl&ots=UpcoT8b0EM&sig=Q4L_xQ9o76SHGV6mRbJ3FTCuY_M&hl=de&ei=ZwRXTayoN8nDhAeH85XmDA&sa=X&oi=book_result&ct=result&resnum=5&ved=0CDIQ6AEwBA#v=onepage&q&f=false</A></DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>It's a must read for everyone interested in immigration in 17th Century if not to learn why Upstate New York was not an area for settlers before 1820. </DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV>Roland Geiger</DIV> <DIV> </DIV> <DIV> </DIV></FONT></BODY></HTML>