GERMAN IMMIGRANT PROBLEMS IN EIGHTEENTH CENTURY PENNSYLVANIA AS REFLECTED IN TROUBLE ADVERTISEMENTS.

The purpose of this study is to investigate problems which confronted the German settlers in 18th century Pennsylvania as far as they found reflection in the immigrant press. The period investigated covers about the third quarter of the 18th century. The study was begun in the expectation that trouble letters and news items would form the major source of information. However, this was not so. Trouble letters are not to be found in the German language press of that period, and the news items dealt mostly with foreign affairs and other questions of general political interest. Only the advertisements dealt with problems concerning the immigrant group to such an extent that an analysis seemed to promise satisfactory results. It is the plan of this study to present problems which beset the early German immigrant in the chronological order of their probable occurrence by means of an analysis of advertisements which arose out of the various situations consecutively confronting the newcomer. These situations are subsumed under these three headings indicating different phases in the immigrant's career: Upon Arrival, While Indentured, After Regaining Freedom.