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For a long time in the American Union, "Palatine" meant German American. [67] Palatine immigrants came to live in big industrial cities such as Germantown, Philadelphia and Pittsburgh in Pennsylvania. Land-searching Palatines moved to the Midwestern States and founded new homes in the fertile regions of Illinois, Indiana, and Ohio. [68]
The most famous of the early German Palatine immigrants was editor John Peter Zenger, who led the fight in colonial New York City for freedom of the press in America. A later immigrant, John Jacob Astor , who came from Walldorf , Electoral Palatinate , since 1803 Baden , after the Revolutionary War, became the richest man in America from his ...
The Pennsylvania Dutch, primarily German-speaking immigrants from Germany (particularly the Palatinate region), Switzerland, and Alsace, moved to the USA seeking better opportunities and a safer, more tolerant environment. Many, including Amish and Mennonites, faced religious persecution in Europe.
Among them were German Palatines who had fled the Rhineland-Palatinate region of southwestern Germany due to religious and political persecution during repeated invasions by French troops. From the colonial period to the early 1900s, people of Germanic heritage formed the social and economic backbone of the Shenandoah Valley.
Herkimer was a descendant of a German Palatine immigrant from Sandhausen named Georg Herchheimer. [64] Henning: Illinois: Hermann: Missouri: Named after Arminius (German: Hermann), a Cherusci chieftain who defeated the Romans in the Battle of the Teutoburg Forest. [65] Herscher: Illinois: Hettinger: North Dakota: Hochheim: Texas: Hochheim ...
The German Palatines and Scotch-Irish immigrants arrived in huge numbers because of bloody religious conflicts and persecution of Protestants by monarchies in Great Britain and Europe. The mostly Protestant German Palatines (also known as Pennsylvania Dutch ) tended to find rich farmland and work it zealously to become stable and prosperous.
Johann Hartman Windecker (1676–1754) was a German Palatine settler and soldier who came to America in the early eighteenth century. He was the founder of the Palatine settlement Hartman's Dorf (Hartmannsdorf). He was the son of Nicolaus Windecker and Anna Elisabeth Stroh.
German Palatine settlement in the United States (6 C, 1 P) Pages in category "German Palatines" The following 11 pages are in this category, out of 11 total.