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The Palatine immigrants came from area of the Palatinate on the Rhine River - a fertile land of beautiful fields of corn, orchards and vineyards. From the wandering tribes who had settled in Germany had developed civilized people of valor and integrity.
The term palatine or palatinus was first used in the Roman Empire for chamberlains of the emperor (e.g. Chamberlain of the Holy Roman Church) due to their association with the Palatine Hill, the home where Roman emperors lived since Augustus Caesar (and whence "palace").
Jan 18, 2022 · By January 17th, 1722, and after repeated petitions to Her Majesty’s government, the Palatines could finally see their hopes and dreams of their own land to call home coming to fruition with tracts of land on both sides of the Mohawk River with the easternmost boundaries at the Little Falls.
In spite of the restrictive emigration laws of the United States thousands of German Jews could save their lives by emigrating to the United States after 1933. About 1.500 persecuted Jewish women, men and children from the Palatinate found a refuge in Northern America.
palatinates were border regions where the demands of security dictated that the local rulers should have special powers, particularly to raise troops and to administer justice to all levels. The earldom of Chester, created in 1071, gradually acquired palatinate privileges, its tenants-in-chief holding directly of the earl and paying all taxes ...
In summarizing the role played by the Palatine immigration in the history of the "Old West," it may be pointed out that the Palatines pushed westward the New York frontier into the Mohawk Valley, and the Pennsylvania frontier into the Great Appalachian Valley.
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Nicholas Gibbs, who emigrated from Baden, was a so-called Palatine. So were many of the other early settlers of Tennessee and North Carolina, including some of the sons-in-law of Nicholas Gibbs. The Snodderlys, the Albrights, and the Sharps all were Palatines.
