Pages from a journal stamped with “Frederick Krueger, County Treasurer, Washington County, West Bend, Wis.” Includes a drawing of a sailing ship and twelve handwritten pages of an immigration story. The family left Dorf Polchow bei Cammin (Kreis Cammin) hinter Pommern in 1839; the writer notes he lived in Milwaukee, and that in 1842 he married Friederica Wilhelmine Augusta (geboren Schallock).
Transliteration, by Laura Engelskircher (as part of a paleography class offered by the state archives of Rheinland Pfalz in Speyer)
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