Thank you Lori, I printed this info out. My KORNEGAY/KNEGE/GNAGI file is growing by leaps and bounds. Interesting chat session. I hope Jerry will have another. I have several other KORNEGAY researchers at least 3 or 4 I have notified about Jerry's web site. It is wonderful the technology we have for doing this and for troubleshooting each other's work. It is so crucial and less time consuming. Have a great week. Gayle DITTOBYTE@aol.com wrote: > Hi all, > I had mentioned some information I got from my Futch line about the Baron. I > am not sure if it will help, but here goes: > > The Futch line after years of religious persecution by the rulers of their > native lands, thousands of Palatine Germans fled to England in1708. When Queen > Anne, whose husbnad was Geman, issued a proclamation promising them land > there. The living conditions were less tha satisfactory and the allotment of > land was slow in coming. At this Christophle De Graffenreid and Lewis Mitchell > of Bern, Switzerland, contracted with the Lord Proprietors of Carolina for > 10,000k acres of land, lying between Neuse and Cape Fear. De Graffenreid > forthwith contracted with the commissioners of England to transport and settle > 100 Palatine families on the land, allotting to each 200 acres of land. De > Graffenreid received the title of Baron. > > In 1709, ninety two families from Heidelberg Germany and it's environs arived > on the Carolina Shores. They named thier settlement New Bern, after Bern, > Switzerland, the home of De Graffenried. Although title to the land was > promised to the Plaatines, it was once more postponed. Lewis Mitchell was > killed by Indians, and Baron De Graffenreid, in great financial difficulty, > returned to Switzerland without bestowing these titles. Instead he mortgaged > the land to Thomas Pollock. > > Baron De Graffenreid, anxious to start another Colony, soon returned to > America. This time he entered the Chesapeake Bay and explored the Potomac > River to a point above the Great Falls. The Potomac River now formas the > border between Pennsylvania and Virginia. Despite his enthusiasom no Colony > was founded. His travels produced a journal and a map, drwn in 1711, that are > valubalbe early records of the history of the area. On a French version of his > map in 1716 De Graffenreid noted Sugar Loaf Mountain, which he possibly named, > located in what is now Montgomery Co., Maryland. It is transcribed there is > "Mont de Sugarloaf". > > In 1716 Baron De Graffenreid wrote, " I beleive that ther are scarley any > places in the world more beautiful and better situated than this of the > Potomac...there is a very pretty island (today's Theodore Roosevelt Island) of > very good ground, facing it, and angle between the great Potomac River and > another little river named Gold Creek (now Rock Creek)...sutied to recieve > everything that comes up the river, the greatest merchant vessels being able > to sail there as well as that which comes down from above the falls or from > the surrounding country. > > Meanwhile, the controversy over the lands of the Palatines at New Bern, North > Carolina continued. After several unsuccessful petitions to the court, opposed > by Pollock, finally in may of 1742 the Palatines successfully petitioned the > council at New Bern to take up title to 400 acres per family. To prove their > rights to the land they cited their agreemant with Baron De Graffenried, and > Mitchell, on one hand and appointees of Queen Anne, on the other, in raltion > to their bing transported to this province and settled there. > > It goes on to tell how the Member of my Futch line got his land. I thought > that the above may come in handy. I, by no means am good at geography. So, to > tell you the truth, I am not sure exactly what area they are talking about. I > know some people on the list are looking for poss. where they started from. > Anyway, Hope it help. > > Sincerely, > Lori