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Rh the aid of Queen Anne; to appoint a Committee of Arrangements, consisting of nine members, and to invite all Germans and descendants of Germans to participate." (About 3000 Germans, natives of the Palatinate and of Suabia, distributed in ten vessels, left England for New York in April, 1710, under the lead of Col. Robert Hunter. The mortality at sea was very great.)

1812—1815. Nearly all the meetings remained without a quorum, probably in consequence of the war with England.

1817. . The Treasurer reports, as further property of the Society: ten shares of the Mechanics' Bank; four shares of the Eagle Fire Insurance Company.

1818. During this year Philip Hone, William F. Havemeyer, Frederick Havemeyer, and William B. Astor were admitted to membership.

1819—1822. Owing to the prevalence of yellow fever, the meetings mostly remained without a quorum.

1823. . First meeting since January 29th, 1821.

1825. . The State Legislature passes a law, renewing the previous Charter of the Society, and permanently incorporating the latter.

1826. No meeting reported.

1827. . Adoption of the new by-laws, and resolution passed to have 250 copies printed.

1830. . A committee of ten members appointed to collect money, as the means of the Society are exhausted.

1831—1832. No meetings.

1833. . Meeting held at the City Hotel. A committee of five members appointed to find some means of increasing the funds of the Society, as they are inadequate to meet the extraordinary demands made upon the latter. The Directors of the Society publish the first printed guide for emigrants.

1834. . It is recommended to establish a German Library and a Scientific Society in connection with the German Society, in order to attract new members to the latter.