Hi All, See that I forgot to paste my notes like I said I would here. Well, well, must be getting forgetful again. LOL Here they are: > John George Kornegay & his wife were of the upper Palatinate of the Rhine (now Germany). As Protestants, they (John George Kornegay along with his wife & children (2 sons, 8 & 2 and 2 daughters, 10 & 12) fled their homes during the War of Spanish Succession. They had gone first to England and from there on 6 May 1709, were ready to leave with the Baron von Graffenreid colony. John George Kornegay came to American in one of two flotillas recruited by Baron Christoph von Graffenreid in 1710. John George was a Husbandman (farmer) and Wine dresser. John George Kornegay along with other Palatines settled the New Bern, Craven Co., North Carolina. Family tradition has it that the Kornegays stopped first at the New Bern colony and then settled up the Neuse River. John was massacred on the 22 Sep 1711 by the Tuscaroras Indians along with all of his family except for his young son, George, because the people in the New Bern colony had cheated the Indians in trade and taken game,ammunition, and arms away from them. The Indians had saved up their resentments until one September morning in 1711 when 500 braves in small bands drifted into New Bern, pretending friendly errands. Within two hours of the signal for attach, they slaughtered 130 settlers. Infants they swing against trees. Stakes were driven through women's bodies. At new Bern's first call on South Carolina for help, "Tuscarora Jack" Barwell marched a mixed force of whites and friendly Indians 300 miles north to the stricken Neuse. He defeated the Tuscaroras but left an uneasy truce, many of his men having hurried away to sell Indian captives at the going rate of {10 per head. In 1712, at Fort Nohoroco on Contentia Creek, James Moore broke the power and spirit of the Tuscaroras. His score: "Prisoners 392 , Scalps 193 ... at least 200 Kill'd & Burnt in the fort." a remnant of the Tuscaroras slunk north to become the Sixth Nation of the Iroquois Confederation in New York Province. Ten-year old George was taken hostage and was with the Indians until they were overcome in the spring of 1712. He was then apprenticed to Jacob Mueller (Miller). The following quote from an early (not contemporary) account says, "Jacob saw to it that this orphaned Palatine boy got his fair share of the land promised earlier to the colonists in the Graffenreid expedition." If accurate, this would suggest that they were indeed Palatines which makes the search for their ancestors more complex because it increases the number of places where they may have originated. > > Hope this will help others out some. Sue in CA