Excerpt from History of Emmitsburg, Maryland: With a Prelude of Historical Facts of Frederick County, and a Romance Entitled Disappointed, or the Recluse of Huckle's Field The first German settlers in Maryland were amongst the Dutch and French Labodists. On Bohemia Manor. Cecil, then Baltimore County, in 1661. This settlement was prior to the coming of ivilliam Penn's German Quakers, 1720. They scattered and mixed amongst the other settle ments in Maryland and Delaware. Daniel Partorious in 1684 founded Germantown. For many years Germantown was the rendezvous of German refugees fleeing from perse cution, which devestated portions of Germany. From Germantown, this centre of emigration, they spread over Southern Pennsylvania to Lancaster, York and Adams County. Many of these finding their way into Marylandricksburg. Others followed in 1730. Some had crossed the mountains into Shenandoah and Rockingham counties. These in turn were reinforced by Germans from the Penn sylvania settlements. By 1743 there were a number of flourishing German settlements in the Valley of Virginia. In 1748, when George Washington surveyed the lands of Virginia, he met men, women and children who followed him through the woods, who spoke German only. These Virginia settlements were in regular communica tion with the settlements in Pennsylvania. We now have grounds to base the people and their nationality upon. 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.