The German printing connection with Charles Cist is that there were already German language printing papers from previous individuals in the Pennsylvania and Philadelphia areas during the 1700's. This post is to be an addition to the future finding in this historical area.
Benjamin Franklin attempted numerous times to establish several German language newspapers through partnerships. A goal of Franklin's was to educate the German speaking individuals that were a population descendants of the William Penn colony in the Pennsylvania area from the late 1600's.
In the 1740's printers were gaining in popularity. They went from a social status of viewed as manual labor to information brokers.
Franklin knew that in Pennsylvania the German population was large enough to influence certain political outcomes in the Assembly of Pennsylvania. Germans from Europe were coming to the British Colonies in large numbers. Eighteen ships transported Germans to Philadelphia in 1732 and 1733, and from 1737 to 1754 ship arrivals from Germany averaged eleven annually.
Benjamin Franklin's pamphlet, Plain Truth, in 1747 wrote about how the way towards peace is to prepare for war. At this time King George was at war with France and Spain. He had some success with uniting disparate ethnic, political, and religious groups.
Christopher Sauer was the first successful German language printer in the Colonies during this time. Mr. Sauer opposed Franklin's ideas because he thought that alliance to Franklin's militia could be transformed from a voluntary to a mandatory militia. This printing rivalry between Sauer and Franklin went on until Sauer's death in 1758.
This information was obtained from Mr. Trombley from the internet with a footnote: "To Rescue the Germans Out of Sauer's Hands": Benjamin Franklin's German Language Printing Partnerships
The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography, Vol. CXXI, No.4 (October 1997).
I chose to include this in my blog because the time frame when Charles Cist escaped from Siberia, Russian and made his way through Europe might lead me to find the transportation from which Cist arrived in Philadelphia. Did he set sail from Germany? Did he set sail from England? Did he have a sponsor? Was in Benjamin Franklin?
I am using my Interdisciplinary Studies skills to connect people, dates, and events to find conclusive historical material on the life movements of Charles Cist.
Andrew C. Allen
pewabic34@gmail.com
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