The Palatinate / Rhineland-Pfaltz

Metz is a German Name

Although we do not know exactly where our grandfather Lodwick was born, we do have a document indicating the family was German speaking, and that he spent part of his life in German speaking areas of Alsace/Lorraine (“near Metz”) and Switzerland

Sources re: Germans in the 1600s and early 1700s

German
Huber, K. (2013). Schweizer Kraichgau nach dem Dreissigjährigen Krieg : Projektbeschreibung - Quellen - erste Ergebnisse. Familienforschung  SchweizL Jahrbuch. https://doi.org/10.5169/SEALS-697357
Macco, H. (1954). Swiss emigrants to the Palatinate in Germany and to America, 1650-1800 and Huguenots the Palatinate and Germany: Vol. I, II, III, IV, V. The Genealogical Society of the Church of Jesus Christ ofLatter Day Saints. https://www.familysearch.org/library/books/
Simmendinger, U. (1962). True and Authentic Register of Persons Still Living, By God’s Grace, Who in the Year 1709, Under the Wonderful Providences of the Lord Journeyed from Germany to America or New World... Genealogical Publishing Company. https://ia803100.us.archive.org/12/items/trueauthenticreg00simm/trueauthenticreg00simm.pdf
Wust, K. G., & Moos, H. (Eds.). (1983). Three hundred years of German immigrants in North America, 1683-1983: their contributions to the evolution of the New World: a pictorial history with 510 illustrations. “300 Jahre Deutsche in Amerika” Verlags-GMbH ; Distribution Heinz Moos Pub. Co.
Rupp, I. D. (1876). A collection of upwards of thirty thousand names of German, Swiss, Dutch, French and other immigrant. CAXTON PRESS OF SHERMAN & CO. https://ia600908.us.archive.org/17/items/collectionofupwa00ruppuoft/collectionofupwa00ruppuoft.pdf
Brumbaugh, M. G. (1899). A history of the German Baptist Brethren in Europe and America. Mount Morris, Ill. : Brethren Publishing House. http://archive.org/details/historyofgerman00brum
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Hocker, E. W. (2003). Genealogical Data Relating to the German Settlers of Pennsylvania and Adjacent Territory; From Advertisements in German Newspapers published in Philadelphia and Germantown, 1743-1800. Clearfield Company by Genealogical Publishing.
Moltmann, Gunter. (1982). Germans to America: 300 Years of Immigration 1683-1983 (First Edition). Institute for Foreign Cultural Relations;
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Guth, H., Guth, G., Mast, J. L., & Mast, L. A. (1987). Palatine Mennonite Census Lists, 1664-1793. Mennonite Family History. https://www.masthof.com/products/palatine-mennonite-census-lists-1664-1793
Dubbs, Joseph H. (1893). THE FOUNDING OF THE GERMAN CHURCHES OF Pennsylvania. PENNSYLVANIA OF  MAGAZINE  HISTORY AND BIOGRAPH, XVII(3).
Eyster Jacobs, H. (1898). The German Emigration to America, 1709-1740: Vol. III. of a Narrative and Critical History. The Pennsylvania German Society; Hathi Trust, Internet Archive. https://ia801605.us.archive.org/4/items/germanemigration08jaco/germanemigration08jaco.pdf
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Krebs, F., & Rubincam, Milton. (1953). Emigrants from the Palatinate to the American Colonies in the 18th century. https://hdl.handle.net/2027/uc1.b2823673?urlappend=%3Bseq=7
Alsace Lorraine
Emig, C. C. (2021). The Protestant genealogy in Alsace ... remarks and advices. http://paleopolis.rediris.es/NeCs/NeCs_01-2015/index-EN.html
Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online. (n.d.). [Encyclopedia]. Alsace. Retrieved October 22, 2024, from https://gameo.org/index.php?title=Alsace_(France)
Compiled by the Geographical Section of the Naval Intelligence Division, Naval Staff, Admiralty (Ed.). (1920). France: A Manual of Alsace Lorraine.pdf. Cornell University Library. http://forgottenbooks.com
Recherches en Alsace. (2014). [Genealogy]. GeneaFrance. https://www.geneafrance.org/rubrique.php?page=alsace
Putnam, R. (1915). Alsace and Lorraine: From Caesar to Kaiser: 58 BC -1871 AD. G.P. Putnam’s Sons. https://catalog.hathitrust.org/Record/000368318
Miskimin, Patricia B. (2002). One King, One Law, Three Faiths. Religion and the Rise of Absoutism in Seventeenth-Century Metz. Greenwood Press.
The Amish in Alsace in the 18th century | Musée protestant. (n.d.). Retrieved August 2, 2023, from https://museeprotestant.org/en/notice/the-amish-in-alsace-in-the-18th-century/
Puhak, S. (2022). The dark queens: the bloody rivalry that forged the medieval world. Bloomsbury Publishing.
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