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MOSER BIBLIOGRAPHY

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 […]

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German Immigrants to North Carolina: Pioneer Georg “Frederick” MOSER (1722-1800) Part Two

TROUBLE IN ORANGE COUNTY While we read in the last post that settlers were lured to North Carolina with advertisements of inexpensive land and no taxes, the speculators had other ideas. The settlers came, cleared the land and made improvements: cabins, fences, pastures and fruit orchards. They raised rye, barley, oats, hemp and flax as […]

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German Immigrants to North Carolina: Pioneer Georg “Frederick” MOSER (1722-1800) Part One

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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