Excerpt from The Brethren's Family Almanac, 1886 August 20, 1759, appeared in Saur' s publish ing house the first German paper ever printed In America. It contained four pages, in size 9x13 the title of the publication (in English) being. The High German, Pennsylvanian Historian, Or a collection of important, events in nature and church. In his editorial he mentions that he did not propose to publish a newspaper in the common acceptation of the term, but, rather a collection of facts that might tend to better hu manity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.