My ancestors were Palatine Germans to Albany, NY, 1710...
Queen Anne sent 3,000 of them on to America from London where 10,00 of they were camped out in the parks etc...
Some went to Ireland, Canada etc...
The ones who came here were to cut down trees and produce tar and pitch to seal the wooden warships of the English Navy...
However NY was to cold to grow the trees needed...they were down in the Carolinas...
Having little to do and being from farming communities back in Germany...
Several families moved west across the Hudson to Middleburg to farm...(mine did that)
and others went south to Pennsylvania...
Many of the original “Pennsylvania Dutch” were from the Palatines...
I am actually part of the Palatine diaspora. An ancestor of mine was born in or near Reichshofen, France, which is about 160 miles east of Paris, in 1726. At the age of 14, he made his way to Rotterdam, probably by sailing down the Rhine, where he boarded a ship for America. Most of the passengers on the ship were fellow Palatines, some, like himself, from Lorraine, and others most likely from Rheinpfalz, to the north.
After arriving in Baltimore, he settled in Frederick, Md., and the family moved steadily westward as the nation grew.