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TABLE OF CONTENTS

A photo of Rex George Mattice................................................................................. iii
A photo of George Willard Mattice............................................................................. v
Coat of Arms............................................................................................................ vii
Foreword .................................................................................................................. ix
The Springs of the Mattiaci....................................................................................... xi
Mattice (Mattiac) family.......................................................................................... xiii
introductory preface to Dr. Walter Allen Knittle's contributions............................ xxiii
Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration by Dr. Walter Allen Knittle................. 1
The Small Palatine Emigration of 1708..................................................................... 16
The 1709 Emigration in England.............................................................................. 27
A Government Redemptioner System....................................................................... 52
The Government Tar industry in operation .............................................................. 71
The Palatine Settlements on the Frontier of Old West............................................... 92
Conclusion.............................................................................................................. 119
Imigration of the Palatinates................................................................................... 122
Land Trouble and Basic Cause for some of the German Settlers to leave the
Schoharie Valley..................................................................................................... 130
Purchase of Vrooman'e Land................................................................................. 139
The Palatine:Emigration from Schoharie to the Tulpehocken, by Paul B. Mattice . 140
Personal Strength of the Early Schoharie Settlers.................................................... 152
The Journey to Pennsylvania ................................................................................. 153
Reception in Pennsylvania ..................................................................................... 162
Conrad Weiser, by Paul A. W. Wallace................................................................... 166
The Lawyer Family of Schoharie and Cobleskill, by Ceorge S. Van Schaick........... 194
Military Records of Schoharie County
Veterans of Four Wars by George H. Warner......................................................... 218


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