1684, Telner Emigration Party

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From: Holland or England, about Aug/Sep 1684
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Arrival: New York, by 12 Dec 1684

On 10 Mar 1682 William Penn conveyed to Jacob Telner of Krefeld, Jan Streypers of Kaldenkirchen, and Dirck Sipman of Krefeld each 5,000 acres of land in Pennsylvania. Jacob Telner was a merchant in Amsterdam and had contacts with the Quakers in London and some people in New York. After being granted the land in Pennsylvania he began to advertise extensively. In 1683 he accompanied the 13 families that emigrated on the Concord to Rotterdam. He recruited many emigrants to join him to Pennsylvania the following year from Mülheim and was a key figure in the 1684 emigration. 

In Mülheim (Ruhr) Theodor Undereyck, who had studied in England among the Presbeterians, Baptists, Quakers, and others, was the pastor during the 1660s. His successor, the reformed pastor Arnold Siebel visited William Penn in Duisburg in 1677. Four years later (1681) Penn was granted Pennsylvania by King Charles II. The teacher Labadie from Holland also taught new doctrines in Mülheim. There was a group of dissidents in Mülheim as a result of exposure to these new ideas which included the schoolmaster Backhaus and the tailor Verfohren of Styrum. Among the people here Jacob Telner and offers from the Frankfurt Company were able to entice emigration of many to Germantown in 1684, 1687, and 1696, including at east 33 emigrants. [From "Die auswanderung der Mülheimer nach Pennsylvanien" (The Emigration of Mülheimers to Pennsylvania) in Zeitschrift des Geschictesvereins Mülheim a.d. Ruhr (Periodical of the Mülheim a.d. Ruhr History Organization), Vol. 32, Dec 1938 No. 3 by Karl Broermann. Translated by Rosalie N. Castleberry; FHL 974.811/G1 W2b]

In 1684 several Germans came from Mülheim, Mörs, Nenwied, and Köln (Cologne) to Germantown.

After arriving in New York12 Dec 1684 Jacob Telner wrote a letter to Jan Laurens of Rotterdam. The trip to New York took 12 weeks.