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said he had a good conscience that he had done everything he 

 could to forward the undertaking.^ 



The Palatines were in great distress and considered them- 

 selves cast off by the governor.- According to their statement 

 of grievances presented to the Board of Trade in iy22,^ they 

 were put under the hard necessity of applying to the Indians to 

 settle on the tract of land called Schoharie. Permission was 

 readily granted, and in two weeks all hands fell to work and, 

 with great toil and almost no food, cleared a way fifteen miles 

 through the woods. Fifty families went to Schoharie and were 

 almost settled when they received orders from the governor 

 that whoever went on that land would be declared a rebel. But, 

 having made up their minds that to go elsewhere meant starva- 

 tion, they continued operations ; and in March the rest of the 

 people traveled through three feet of snow to join their friends 

 in the " promised land." Their troubles had not ended, how- 

 ever, for they had to live for some time on the charity of the 

 Indians. Then came claimants of the land from Albany, who, 

 not being able to dislodge the settlers, tried to sow enmity be- 

 tween them and the Indians. 



With the subsequent experiences of the Palatines we are not 

 concerned here. Some of them went to Pennsylvania, where 

 they were kindly received by the Quakers.* Those who re- 

 mained in the settlement on the Mohawk as independent labor- 

 ers became industrious and useful citizens.^ The naval store 

 project had ended in miserable failure, for reasons which the 

 narration of its history readily suggests. Tliere had been, prac- 

 tically, no return for the outlay of money, and Governor Hunter 

 was over £20,000 out of pocket — a debt which he mentions in 



iDoct. Hist, of New York, Vol. Ill, pp. 683-684. 



^Friedrich Kapp, "Die Deutsche im Staate New York," p, 44. 



^Doct. Hist, of New York, Vol. HI, pp. 707-714. 



*Peter Kahm's "Travels in America," quoted in Appendix X of 

 Rupp's "Collection of Thirty Thousand Names of German and other 

 Immigrants in Pennsylvania, from 1727-1776." Phila. 1876. Macpher- 

 son, "Annals of Commerce," Vol. Ill, p. 6. 



^Roberts, "New York," Vol. I, p. 237. 



