My brother didn’t answer my questions about our ancestor but did forward this:
History of the Palatine Immigration to Pennsylvania
as written by Daniel Rupp, 1876
Ten sails of vessels were freighted with upwards of four thousand Germans for New York. They departed the 25th December, 1709 and after a six months’ tedious voyage reached New York in June, 1710. On the inward passage, and immediately on landing, seventeen hundred died. The survivors were encamped in tents, the had brought with them from England, on Nutting, now Governor’s Island. Here they remained til late in autumn, when about fourteen hundred were removed, one hundred miles up the Hudson river, to Livingston Manor. The widowed women, sickly men and orphaned children remained in New York. The orphans were apprenticed by Governor Hunter, to citizens of New York and of New Jersey.
Thee settled on Hudson river were under indenture to serve Queen Anne as grateful subjects, to manufacture tar and raise hemp, in order to repay the expenses of their transport and cost of subsistence, to the amount of ten thousand pounds sterling, which had been advanced by parliamentary grant. A supply of naval stores from this arrangement, had been confidently anticipated. The experiment proved a complete failure. There was mismanagement.
The Germans, being unjustly oppressed, became dissatisfied both with their treatment, and with their situation. Governor Hunter resorted to violent measures to secure obedience to his demands. In this, too, he failed. One hundred and fifty families, to escape the certainty of famishing, left, in the autumn of 1712, for Schoharie Valley, some sixty miles, northwest of Livingston Manor. They had no open road, no horses to carry or haul their luggage - this they loaded on roughly constructed sleds, and did tug those themselves, through a three feet deep snow, which greatly obstructed their progress - their way was through an unbroken forest, where and when the wind was howling its hibernal dirge through leaf-stripped trees, amid falling snow. It took them three full weeks. Having reached Schoharie, they made improvements upon the lands Queen Anne had granted them. Here they remained about ten years, when owing to some defect in their titles, they were deprived of both lands and improvements. In the spring of 1723, thirty-three families removed and settled in Pennsylvania, in Tulpehocken, some fifteen miles west of Reading. A few years afterward, others followed them.
The other dissatisfied Germans at Schoharie, who did to choose to follow their friends to Pennsylvania sought for and found a future home on the frontier in Mohawk Valley.
Yes my Palatine family were among the lot that had their homes stolen from them in Schorie County..(Ive been there to the Stone Fort)
The Albany Five later the Albany Seven were a group of crooks who were English speaking and writing and they cheated the hard working Germans out of the lovely Dutch houses and farms they had carved out of the wilderness..
The thieves wrote to Queen Anne and claimed that the Germans were squatters on “their” land and as Anne was busy once again with another war and didn’t want to be bothered by problems in the colonies, she gave the job to one of her ministers to deal with..he sent the conmen paper deeds to the land and the Germans were driven off their own farms..
Many went down into PA but my 7th gggf is suppose to have said he was going to move up the Mohawk River so far that no white man would ever want his land and cheat him again...he took his family so far from civilization that the Monrovian missionaries mentioned him in their journals as being the man to contact for parlays with the Indians..
However it was all good...his daughter met her indentured Irish now Leatherstocking type fur trapper husband at the trading post..