WASHINGTON, Feb. 26, 2017 /PRNewswire-USNewswire/ --
Following is the daily "Profile America" feature from the U.S.
Census Bureau:
SETTLING THE CZECH
Profile America — Sunday, February 26th. Immigration
as an item of government involvement appeared on Colonial America's
shores 351 years ago. Born in Bohemia, essentially today's
Czech Republic, Auguste Herman came to the New World initially
to work for the Dutch colony of New Amsterdam, now New York. A surveyor and cartographer of
considerable talent, Herman's work took him to the Chesapeake Bay,
on the shores of which he wished to settle. Because he wasn't born
a British subject, he had to apply for citizenship in the
Maryland colony. In early 1666,
the colonial assembly made him the first what might be called
naturalized citizen in America. In today's population of over 322
million, nearly 19 million citizens are foreign-born. Around 1.4
million Americans are of Czech ancestry. Profile America is
in its 20th year as a public service of the U.S. Census Bureau.
Sources: Robertson's Book of Firsts, pp. 33 & 34
Herman's Biography/accessed 11/25/2016:
https://books.google.com/books?id=e487MlEWyOUC&pg=PA362&lpg=PA362&dq=Augustine+Herman+1666&source=bl&ots=NLk8UsZ8rj&sig=TSpki2Fl3brto-FpAc-I4nrjQKU&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjgquqZ2-DJAhWGXB4KHfU2A-o4ChDoAQgfMAE#v=onepage&q=Augustine%20Herman%201666&f=false
Naturalization/accessed 11/25/2016:
https://books.google.com/books?id=yvUMAAAAYAAJ&pg=PA406&lpg=PA406&dq=Augustine+Herman+1666&source=bl&ots=55Q_L2cpMk&sig=libDYl0-TwolWKv_hJEMwrJM3m0&hl=en&sa=X&ved=0ahUKEwjj0qSM2uDJAhUB1h4KHWv5DRAQ6AEIKDAD#v=onepage&q=Augustine%20Herman%201666&f=false
On the Chesapeake/accessed 11/25/2016:
http://genealogytrails.com/del/newcastle/familiesofbohemiamanor.html
Foreign born:
http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/14_5YR/S0501
Czech pop:
http://factfinder.census.gov/bkmk/table/1.0/en/ACS/15_1YR/S0201//popgroup~525
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