LANTZ GFNEALOGY the Hudson. They had,been transported at the Queen's expense and "in this wilderness home, it Was allotted them, that they should manufacture tar and raise hemp to repay freightage, from Holland to England, and thence to New York. In this business, they were successful. However, they were released of all freightage upon them in 1713." (Rupp's History of Lancaster County.) While they were in Camp in England, five Indian chiefs who were in London to solicit aid against the French in Canada, saw the miserable condition of the Germans and commiserating them, one of them presented the Queen a tract of his land in Schoharie, New York for the use and benefit of the Germans. "About 150 of the families willing to avail themselves of the advantages of their present from the Indians to Queen Anne, moved through a dense forest to Schoharie, west of Albany, and seated themselves among their Mohawk friends. Here, their sufferings for a while, were great; they were deprived of nearly all the necessaries of life. Their neighbors, like Indians, are wont not to do, laid up no stores from which they could supply the wants of their white brethren-depending entirely upon Nature's storehouse." (Rupp's History.) In Schoharie, they commenced building homes and im- proving the land. They labored for ten years. when they were dispersed; and in 1723, a portion of them traveled over 300 miles and seated themselves at Swatara and Tulpe- hocken in what is now Lebanon and Berks County, Pa. After Braddock's defeat (1755), the enemy Indians roamed unmolested and fearlessly along the Western lines of Virginia, Maryland and Pennsylvania, committing the most appalling outrages. The settlement at Tulpehocken was destroyed and many inhabitants slaughtered or made captives. A few of these escaped to the settlement of the "Sieben Taegar" at Ephrata where they were nursed and cared for. Johannes Lans was among the ones who settled at Tulpehocken. The Landing of the Lantzs After 1710, the German Palatines kept coming to America, and settled in the vicinity of Philadelphia, espe- cially Berks, Lebanon, and Lancaster Counties; both banks of the Delaware River; and the vicinity of Hagerstown, 16
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