On November 25, 1740, the ship "Loyal Judith" arrived in Philadelphia from Rotterdam with settlers from Germany. Germany had suffered terribly from long years of war. For many of her people the situation had become unendurable. Others were persecuted for religious reasons. The Germans tried life in several of the colonies, and therefore they moved around quite a bit. Pennsylvania even today is famous for her "Pennsylvania Dutch," who are really not Dutch at all, but descendants of the Germans who came over in the eighteenth century.
Although a great number of people came to the new colonies in the seventeenth century, still more came in the eighteenth century. By the middle of the eighteenth century there were probably in all the English colonies about 1,500,000 people, of whom 200,000 were slaves. After 1750, the immigration from Europe was small, with a few thousand slaves brought in from Africa each year.
Four fifths of the American Colonists lived within reach of navigable waters flowing into the Atlantic. Everywhere farming in some form was the occupation of the great mass of the people.
Philadelphia with about 20,000 people, Boston, New York, Charleston, and Newport were the five largest towns.
By far the largest part of the people were English. In 1790 when the first US census was taken, 80 per cent of the population were of English Descent. Yet in many of the colonies other nationalities also were represented. One important group were the Germans.
One of the men listed on board was a Peter Croll, age 27. Some believe that this could be Peter Grauel, however his age does not match his birth date of March 5, 1692. He would have been 47 instead of 27, or could there have been a mistake on the age as well as the name?
Ship Loyal Judith Transcribers Guild
Germans(probably from port Rotterdam) to Philadelphia 25 November 1740
A List of All the Mens Names and [ages] on board the Ship Loyal Judith, Capt. Lovell Paynter [Qualified Nov. 25, 1740]
FIRST NAME LAST NAME AGE
1 Johan Henrich Leshire 31
2 Willm Harmany 32
3 Anthony Keller 30
4 Christian Princer 32
5 Willm Sower 50
6 Henrich Dielboen 16
7 Andreas Beck 30
8 Joan Willm Oster 36
9 Abraham Hass 27
10 Jacob Tevalt 44
11 Conrad Snyder 64
12 Johans Ralph Snyder, Sr 54
13 Andreas Ralph Snyder 16
14 Jurg Viant 29
15 Joseph Kickiler 24
16 Simon Vear 20
17 Liniherd Kercherd 43
18 Willm Ole 60
19 Willm Yoast Backer 30
20 Johannes Woolfe 23
21 Balster Hoofeman 36
22 Goodloop Hermon 36
23 Henrich Wackenor 48
24 Fredrick Backer 19
25 Nickolas Sell 42
26 Peter Shits 60
27 Justus Lintiman 49
28 Jacob Lintiman 18
29 Henrich Lintiman 16
30 Henrich Prim 40
31 Jacob Prim 18
32 Hanias Killiand 20
33 Willm Smith 56
34 Willm Smith 24
35 Hanias Smith 17
36 Feltie Crim 50
37 Jacob Crim 18
38 Ulrick Hart 37
39 Yerick Conrade 50
40 Jacob Conrade Jr 16
41 Feltie Snyder 29
42 Adam Mouere 32
43 Jacob Cooke 31
44 Yerick Snyder 26
45 Conrade Vishang 30
46 Nickell Breeder 33
47 John Angell 39
48 Peter Becker 22
49 Willm Beets 38
50 Carl Crow 44
51 Johannes Vervell 33
52 Didrick Backer 43
53 Bernet Saye 26
54 Abraham Bulipacker 25
55 Michial Fie 24
56 Mathias Smith 28
57 Peter Croll 26
58 Conrade Smith 31
59 Johanes Adam 27
60 Hanas Wackner 20
61 Nicholas Shire 21
62 Jacob Shatle 24
63 Johanes Miller 20
64 France Jhost 22
65 Jasper Bonner 20
66 Andrias Smith 22
67 Hanies Diel 27
68 Philip Kauff 20
69 Michell Bush 24
70 Peter Diel 25
71 John Peter Moore 19
72 Hemon Hemon 26
72 Fredrick Laurance 26
73 Johanes Ley 19
74 Fredrick Willm Neagle 24
75 John Jurg Gudshell 21
76 Isaac Didrick 16
77 Peter Woolfe 25
78 Jacob Woolfe 20
79 Johanes Back 25
80 Yerick Eply 25
81 Yergeorall Meyre 23
82 Willm Eseck 25
83 Henicall Hoyse 31
84 Peter Hanse 40
85 John Yerk Eslin 48
86 Hanias Frenk 34
87 Conrade Douey 50
88 Philip Vishang 26
89 Henrich Hype 40
90 Peter Miller 25
91 John Yurg Seiden 37
92 John Candie 28
93 Peter Sell 19
94 Jacob Sell 17
Sworn that the foregoing is a true List to the best of his knowledge, before the Honble the Governor, the 25th Nov. 1740.
Lovell Paynter.
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