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Palatine roots

by Nancy Wagoner Dixon

Biography & Memoir

1994

Johann Peter Wagner was born in 1687. He married Maria Margaretha Laux in 1708 and emigrated from Dachsenhausen, Germany to America in 1709. "What Johann Peter went through, with but a few variations, was what happened to his compatriots in the other 846 families who arrived in New York in 1710"--Forword.

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