"While Germans migrated to many areas of what are now the United States and Canada, this book focuses on the eighteenth-and early nineteenth-century Pennsylvania experience, most particularly those Pennsylvania German domestic furnishings, books, and manuscripts assembled by Henry Francis du Pont for several rooms in his home, Winterthur, in Delaware."--Introd.

"Gustav Samuel Peters was born at Langebruck newar Radeberg about five miles northeast of Dresden in Saxony, Germany, on January 15, 1793, to Ernst Gottlieb (1750-1821) and Anna Rosina Zscheile (1755-1816) Peters."--Page 3. "Before his death in 1847, Peters became one of the most significant German-American printers of his time. He printed at least 50 different book and pamphlet titles in no fewer than 127 editions, not including his numerous juvenile...

"These pioneers began arriving in Ontario from Pennsylvania in 1786. The majority arrived between 1800 and 1810 and settled in three communities: Vineland/Jordan area of the Niagara Peninsula; Waterloo County; Southern York County (Markham, Scarborough, Vaughan, Whitchurch)." web site.

"Fraktur are decorated manuscripts made by and for German Americans. Most are birth and baptism certificates (Taufscheins) made from about 1760 into the first quarter of [the 1900's]"--Intro. v. 3. . These special certificates were original creations or printed forms filled in by the local minister, schoolmaster, or traveling scrivener. Most fraktur appeared among the German population in Pennsylvania with some in the other mid-Atlantic states and...

A catalog of artists/printers and printing places for the birth and baptismal certificates used by the Pennsylvania Germans. Family names given on the certificates are indexed.