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Preface, H. Dwight Page

Swiss American Historical Society Review

The present issue is a reprint of the lengthy Introduction to another Picton Press

publication, Volume 2 of Even More Palatine Families. In that volume the author

Lewis Bunker Rohrbach , CG, illuminates in great depth the 1710 von Graffenried

settlement of New Bern , North Carolina. Although the writing of that volume was part

of a general collaborative effort between Mr. Rohrbach and his colleague Hank Jones,

Mr. Rohrbach wishes to stress that he alone has responsibility for the contents of the

New Bern volume.

For The Want Of Ten Dollars: The Development Of The Terra Cotta Industry In New Jersey, Thorvald Hansen

The Bridge

When the Mathiasens, Karl and his father, left Thisted, on Denmark's northeast Jutland peninsula, for America in 1872, the intention of the elder Mathiasen was to go to Michigan where he had a sister living. When they arrived in New York the father totaled up the funds he had and discovered that the trip thus far had cost more than he expected. He lacked ten dollars of having enough to travel farther west. On the advice of a kindly Dane they walked the few miles to Perth Amboy, New Jersey where they were told they could probably find work. It …