Maryland: A New Kind of Identity | Episode 112

About this episode

The episode tells the story of Anna Maria Niccum's journey from Germany to Maryland in 1749 as she sought a new life for her family.

Four months pregnant, two babies already buried in German soil, Anna Maria Niccum boarded a wooden ship in 1749 and crossed an ocean she'd never seen. Not for a revolution but for a foothold. My six-times great-grandmother made an extraordinary journey from the exhausted Rhineland Palatinate to the wild red-earthed frontier of Maryland's Toms Creek, where she would hold the line for nearly two decades so her children could inherit something no tyrant had ever offered her family: a new kind of...

People in this episode

Host: Crista Cowan

Topics covered

• immigration
• family history
• personal journey
• identity
• historical narrative

Keywords

• Maryland
• Anna Maria Niccum
• immigration
• family history
• Rhineland Palatinate
• Toms Creek
• 1749

Mentioned in this episode

Places: Maryland, Rhineland Palatinate, Toms Creek

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