Posted on 03/23/2015 9:28:55 AM PDT by Ben Mugged
Not NY, Chester Pennsylvania. When he served out his indenture he bought a 700 acre farm in Tennessee where he met, bought, and married an Irish slave woman.
No sir. I’m talking about MY German ancestor.
My guy never served out his indenture. He was cut loose along with the other Germans which some British Lord had dragged over here and was unable to feed. Went to upstate NY and pioneered.
We might be related......
Yeah , those dammed Irish lemmings, and Catholics to boot !
They're freaking everywhere !
And no Catholic birth control, ..just good Irish Whiskey
or they'd take over the world ! .. /s
The Lurkin ancestor was from a place in Southwestern Germany.
At least that’s the conclusion of my brother the amateur genealogist.
I’m glad your sarcasm detector was working this morning!
When was that ???
The 3,000 Palatine-Germans that Queen Anne sent here in 1710 were to cut down pine trees and make pitch and tar to seal the wooden English warships...but the pine trees grew further south in the Carolinas..they were in West Camp, NY
They were mostly farmers and ended up across the Hudson in Schorie and German Flatts..
Mine ended up in Herkimer County on the Mohawk..
Wait,,,,my parents are from Italy. I did not know a lot of facts about the Irish.
I could have worn Orange very easily!
I’m checking with my brother now, but IIRC it was later than 1710 but before the Revolutionary War.
Very few people today on this side of the pond know the history behind it.
I’d bet that most Americans, if they search their family tree closely enough, would find at least one, if not more, of their ancestors came to Virginia as indentured servants.
As you point out, that was a contract. A very, very strict one, but a contract nonetheless. It wasn’t chattel slavery. That came later, mainly with the importation of black Africans.
FWIW I’m just old enough to remember that in my world growing up,
The priests were Irish, the cops were Irish, and on Sunday the working class Irish showed up for Mass dressed to the nines.
“You don’t have to be Irish to be Irish” went the saying.
for the Prince of Orange..
Northern Ireland was called “Orange Ireland” by my mother’s family when I was a child...
My Palatines came from Idar-Oberstein and Rohrbach in SW Germany
And that is how CAPTAIN PETER BLOOD came to the Caribbean, as a slave.
I have an ancestor from Isle of Jura, Scotland, who came to American in the mid-1600’s (don’t recall the exact date off the top of my head). He was on a ship’s manifest with a ‘P’ next to his name. I have been told this stood for Prisoner of the Crown. I am wondering if this is similar to what was going on with the Irish at the time. Any idea? I have assumed that someone paid for his passage to avoid prison and he would have to work off the cost of the passage.
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