For those who are interested in the circumstances of the emmigration
of German settlers one can find an article in the old Berlinische
Monatschrift from 1786.
"Deutsche Gesellschaft in Nordamerika"
Either you try a search over
with the keyword "Baltimore" or you go without the text menue
directly to this article:
http://www.ub.uni-bielefeld.de/cgi-bin/bmbutton.cgi?pfad=/diglib/berlmon/012862/&seite=00000419.gif&jump=1&jump=5&jump=10
It is written in GERMAN, of course! And: it is not a text, but some
graphics.
The anonymous author describes in big words, as it was custom at
this time, why the German Society was founded in Baltimore, about
their tasks, the characteristics of German settlers and so on.
Thomas Salein