Colonial Immigration Laws a Study of the Regulation of Immigration By the Engli
Colonial Immigration Laws a Study of the Regulation of Immigration By the Engli
Emberson Edward Proper
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' This invitation is of interest to the historian as a typical emigration document of the 1 8th century. After mentioning the persecutions to which these people were subjected, it continues, " the King offers to them for a habitation the coun- try west of the Allegheny Mountains, usually considered a part of Pennsylvania, but not yet belonging to it. Each family shall have fifty acres of land in fee I simple, and for the first ten years the use, without charge, of as much as they shall j want, ...subject only to the stipulation that after that time the yearly rent of one hundred acres shall be two shillings. There is land enough for 100, 000 families, and they shall have permission to live there, not as foreigners, but on their engage- ment, under oath, to be true and obedient to the King, and to have the same rights as his natural-born subjects. " Then follows a highly drawn picture of the country and its resources. PentCa. Magazine of History ^ ii, 126. 48 ; COL ONTAL IMMIGRA TION LAWS [ 1 74 At a meeting of the Governor and Council, September 17th, 1 71 7, the Governor (Keith) informed the Board ''that great numbers of foreigners from Germany, strangers to our language and constitution were lately imported into the ^ / Province and daily dispersed themselves without producing V any certificates from whence they came or what they were.
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