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The Palatine Emigration. 



melsdorf, Penna., 1 which he had first settled, a place near 

 his countrymen. 



The second portion of those who separated from the 

 Schoharie settlers went to the banks of the Mohawk, 

 mostly about the years 1722 and 1723. The memory of 

 their settlement is preserved in Montgomery county by 

 the names of the township of Palatine, and Palatine Bridge 

 and Palatine Church in the same town. Stonaraby was its 

 earliest name, patented in 1723. In Herkimer county the 

 township of German Flatts designates the place where 

 another portion of the same band settled. 



The history of the Palatines after their final settlement 

 in this country as far as known at the time, may be found 

 in Simms's History of Schoharie, Benton's History of Herkimer 

 County, and Ruttenber's History of Newburgh. The materials 

 for this American portion of their history found in* the 

 Documentary and the Colonial Histories ■ of the State of 

 New York will furnish abundant sources of information 

 regarding these identical Palatines, for future local his- 

 torians ; and justify the forethought of the legislature in 

 procuring their collection and publication. 



It has not been my object to give any details of their 

 history in this country, but to historically arrange such 

 facts as could be learned, hitherto uncollected, which might 

 serve to explain the circumstances of their emigration to 

 England and of their residence there, and to define the 

 regions where they finally found a home. 



It will have been observed that in my enumeration of 

 the numbers in the different parties as distributed, that 

 the place of settlement of several thousands of the* alleged 

 thirteen thousand persons arriving in England is still un- 

 accounted for. Possibly as this is the largest count of 

 their number I met with, it might be reduced by a thou- 



1 Bupp's Lancaster. 



