Palatines refer to the thousands of Germans that left their homeland between the period of 1700-1800. After their arrival in America, my family eventually settled in the colony of Pennsylvania later known as Penn’s Woods. Other Palatine families settled in the colonies of New York, North …

The largest concentration of descendants of Palatine immigrants lives around Rathkeale . The English transported nearly 3,000 German Palatines in ten ships to New York in 1710. Many of them were first assigned to work camps along the Hudson River to work off the cost of their …

Many of the early German settlers of America (e.g. the Pennsylvania Dutch) were refugees from the Palatinate. During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic Wars, the Palatinate's lands on the west bank of the Rhine were incorporated into France, while its eastern lands were divided …

This forced thousands of Germans to flee their homeland, and helped lead to the creation of the United States. In 1623, Spanish and Bavarian troops overran the area and put as much as 50 …

The Palatine Migration — 1723 From Schoharie to Tulpehocken By JOHN W. AND MARTHA B. HARPER One of the most adventurous and hazardous migrations in Pennsylvania history …

The Palatine to America book collection is housed at the Columbus Metropolitan Library (CML), 96 S Grant Ave, Columbus, OH 43215. Phone: (614) 645-2275. **New Links Page Click Here**. …

Palatine Immigration to America History of the Palatine Immigration to Pennsylvania as written by Daniel Rupp, 1876 At different periods, various causes and diverse motives induced …

The Palatinate or German Pfalz was subject to invasion by the armies of Britain, France, and Germany. As well as the devastating effects of war, the Palatines were subjected to the winter …

the emigration from the palatinate, initially directed to new york and later, as a result of their horrible experiences, to pennsylvania where they founded womelsdorf and heidelberg, became …

The Palatinate (German: Pfalz) was one of these states, and was located along the Rhine, roughly corresponding to the modern German state of ... The Palatine Project at ProGenealogists - …