Lists of Swiss Emigrants in the Eighteenth Century to the American Colonies TJTE in artuscript here presented is contained in thc State Archive of Xiirirh, and was discovered during a scarch i t was my privilege o make after tiiaterials f r America11 history in the arcl ives of S ihrerlancl. The manuscript is in many rrspec ts the rrlost valuable sirlgle docurriet t relating to Atnerica contained i11 the Swiss archives, being quite as important for its historical as for its genealogical and statistical materials. Ihc wholc history of Swiss cmigratio l in thc eightcenth century is cpito uizcd in this valual led ocr ment. T he statistician finds in it thc only reliable eriumeratiun uf Swiss emigrants uf the eiiil ptlriud, and is able to basc far-reacliirig estimates thereupon. The genealogist is f lrnishetl with a large Inass of farnily records, iriclucling about two tho sand ilalllcs with Accurate data as to origin, dislrilution and Jcstinatiun. This largc l otlyo f names su lemcntthse lists o f I. D. liupp, in his cnllection of Thirty Thofisnvd ATumes, of Cernmrt, Swiss, Urttch, French, und other Im zigrunts i n Pe tnsyE snni f n r, o m I 737-1776, corrlpiled mainly from the ship lists in Philadelphia. Many ol the names it1 the tiianuscript will be found also in liupps col-1cctio11, and it is a pleasure to know that so inany persons rcached tlicir rlestination. Uut a still larger number are not rontaijlecl in Rr ppsli sts, partly because the lhiladelpliia ship-lists do not give a cot iplcter ccord of all arrivals ever1 in that port. anrl partly becai sc a great many nf those named in the manuscript were shipped tn Carolina. Many nf those who lailded it1 Carolina, liou-cvcr, sub-1 SccGuide to the l. faieriaks f or Amemcan History in the Smss a d A lsfrann Archizcs, Lv Ill, crt H. Faust, iVashingtun, L. C., 1916. The he rch u-as 11lac1e rider thc auspices uf the Carnegie Insrituliun o l hshington, Department of Histuri tl Kewnrch, in the year 1913. A fullcr undersvanding of this i nportant epoch in rrierican tiistory rnay he securcd through the reprinted Swiss Enai rutaox fo lha American Cokonies in kc Eighleanlh fintarj, hcrcin reproduced see beloiv, py 1-25 thro ifiht hc co lrtesy oi Dr. J. Franklin Jainewn, hlarrngiilg Editor of The Alnerica H islorird Re dem. .., 111 iv PREFACE. sccluently settled i n Pennsyl. ania. .4n intcrcsting-example oI this is thc case of the fanlily Kolliker IZelker, who very soon settled four rnilcs fro111 Lebanon, Ie nsylvania. Our manuscript tells us that Heinrich Kiilliker, with three sons and two daugl iers left Herrliberg in I 743, destined for Caroliria. This corresporids to the family tradition which Rupp received flo nth e great-grantlson Rudolph F. Kclkcr, whose ancestors name is not in he PhiladclI hia ship-lists Our nanuscripm o reover supplies not only the riamcs of the parcnts, but also of all the children and their ages. In order to understand the manuscript before us, it is neccssnrv to bring before our minds ihe attitude of the l uropeat g overnlncnts toward emigration in the cightecnth century. The liberality of view that developed in the nineteenth century, i. e., ol toleration if not encouragement, and a clisposition to aid the em grnnt to a betterment of his conditiori, Ily llleans of tra lsportation facilities and an intelligent view of what was beforc hirn, this humanitarian policy is modern...