124 The Palatine Emigration. 



Graffenried and Michell covenanted with these commis- 

 sioners that they would transport to North Carolina, 650 



of the Palatines or about one hundred families They 



were to be supplied for twelve months with provisions. 

 The commissioners allowed £5 per head for transporting ; 

 and the people had received 20 shillings each from the chari- 

 table collections and lodged their money in the hands of 

 Graffenried and Michell. The Palatines arrived in Decem- 

 ber, 1709, at the confluence of the river Neuse and Trent 

 where they erected temporary shelters. The place was 

 called New Bern, which was the name of the city where 

 Graffenried was born. Gov. Tryon by orders from Eng- 

 land allowed 100 acres to each man, woman and child. 

 Graffenried returned to Europe without giving them a title 



to their settlements The Palatines in the meantime, 



being industrious and living in a country where land was 

 plenty and cheap, increased in number and acquired pro- 

 perty. 



These facts confirm the suspicion we have expressed 

 that the emigrants had been induced to come to England 

 by speculators on their future labor, in the expectation 

 that England would pay the expense of their transporta- 

 tion to their lands in the colonies. 



A third portion of the emigrants, making one-tenth of 

 the whole, is the class whose passage was paid to return 

 back to the place from whence they came, as appears from 

 LuttrelVs Diary. This portion returned mainly because 

 they were Catholics, and did not meet with favor. Such 

 as did not change their religion were sent back at the ex- 

 pense of the government, of whom there were at least one 

 thousand persons. 



The fourth and last division of these emigrants concern- 

 ing whom we can report, is the three thousand two hun- 

 dred who came to New York. On the 30th of November, 

 1709, the duty was devolved on Col, Hunter, the newly 



