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| Format | Journal Article |
|---|---|
| Author, Analytic | Schelbert, Leo |
| Title, Analytic | The Enmeshment of Five Worlds, 1710-1713: The Making of New Bern in Southern Iroquoia |
| Journal Title | Swiss American Historical Society Review |
| Date of Publication | Nov. 2009 |
| Volume ID | 45 |
| Issue ID | 3 |
| Location in Work | 8-56, ill. |
| ISSN | 0883-4814 |
| Abstract | On September 29, 1710, a hundred and three people--among them their leader Christoph von Graffenried and his son Christoph jr.--arrived at a river the Tuscarora called Gow-ta-no, meaning 'pine water.' . . . The newcomers were from Canton Bern, a leading member state of the Swiss Confederacy, and they intended to settle in a region located on the North Atlantic coast of the Western Hemisphere that the English named Carolina. This article examines how it came about "that authorities of the canton Bern in central Western Europe became involved in an overseas venture, that the English government awarded a Bernese patrician the position of landgrave in one of its dominions, and that South Germans [from the Palatinate] were available in London to be shipped across the Atlantic." Also describes encounters with Native Americans, and von Graffenried's return to Switzerland. |
| Call Number | MKI Periodicals |
| MKI Terms | Swiss Americans/ Switzerland/ Emigration and immigration (Europe-US)/ North Carolina/ Graffenried, Christopher de, 1661-1743/ Settlements/ Immigrants, German/ Immigrants, Swiss/ Palatines/ Native Americans |