Archive for the ‘Palatine’ Category

Thursday June 17 through Saturday June 19, 2010.

Holiday Inn Conference Center at Fishkill, New York

This is the 300th year anniversary 1710 – 2010 of the arrival of the group of some 3,000 people that have been collectively called Palatines that had left the war torn and poor crops area of what is now Germany dubbed the Palatinate.

This band of families had first been accepted in to England by the young Queen Anne and then sent to America with the prospect of paying their passage by service the Royal Navy in collecting pitch and spars.  The Palatines were abandoned by England and they were not paid their subsistence money so had to fend for themselves.