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Posted on February 15, 2024 Leave a Comment
This is a living blog post: new sources will be added. This regards the series of blog posts on German Immigration and the MOSER family. Please feel free to email me with additions or corrections. Hotlinks are included as available. BOOKS Barber, Edwin Atlee; Tulip War: Pennsylvania- German Potters 1903 Basset, John Spencer; The Regulators […]
German Immigrants to North Carolina: Pioneer Georg “Frederick” MOSER (1722-1800) Part Three
Posted on February 7, 2024 3 Comments
AFTER THE REVOLUTION As we ended the last chapter the North Carolina General Assembly at the close of the Revolutionary War had passed Confiscation Acts to confiscate the property of Loyalists. It may be in this way that Frederick MOSER reacquired his lands or gained clear title to them. We have many anomalies in the land […]
German Immigrants to North Carolina: Pioneer Georg “Frederick” MOSER (1722-1800) Part One
Posted on January 25, 2024 Leave a Comment
The Lure of Cheap Land Notices like the one below appeared in Pennsylvania newspapers. One might ask why did the MOSER’s move from Pennsylvania to North Carolina? “Lands are so very cheap,” one Carolina resident wrote, “that . . . Six Hundred and Forty Acres . . . will cost three or four pounds Sterling […]
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