LANCASTER COUXTT. 93 



Translation. — Whereas Maria, Danit'l Fuehre's (Fe- 

 ries') widow, and her son Daniel Ferie with his wife and 

 other six single children, in view of improving their 

 condition and in fnrthcrance of tlieir prosperity, pnrpose 

 to emigrate from Steinweiler hi the mayoralty of Bittig- 

 heim, High Bailiwick Germersheim, via Holland and 

 England, to the island of Pennsylvania, to reside there, 

 they have requested an accredited certificate that they 

 left the town of Steinweiler with the knowledge of the 

 proper authorities, and have deported themselves peacea- 

 bly and without cause for censure, and are indebted to no 

 one, and not subject to vassalage, being duly solicited, it 

 has been thought proper to grant their petition, declaring 

 that the above named persons are not moving away 

 clandestinely— that during the time their father, the 

 widow and children resided in this place they behaved 

 themselves piously and honestly — that it would liave 

 been highly gratifying to us to see them remain among 

 us — that they are not subject to bodily bondage, the 

 mayoralty not being subject to vassalage — they have 

 also paid for their permission to emigrate ; Mr^ Fischer, 

 the mayor of Steinweiler being expressly interrogated, 

 it has been ascertained that they are not liable for any 

 debts. In witness whereof, I have, in the absence of 

 tlie counsellor of the Palatinate, &c., signed these 

 presents, gave the same to the persons who intended to 

 emigrate. Dated Bittigheim, INIarch 10th, 1708. 



[L. S.] J. P. DIETRICH, Court Clerk, 



Next, as christians, they obtained a certificate of their 

 religious standing from the proper church officers, even 

 to a statement of the time and place of the christian 

 baptism of their young children. No doubt they es- 

 teemed the following, which was thus obtained, as the 



