Product Review

This three volume set is a companion piece to Henry Z Jones, Jr.'s seminal The Palatine Families of New York - 1710 and More Palatine Families. A partial list of documented data in this new set includes: New discoveries on German origins of many families emigrating in 1709; The full 1709 Rotterdam embarkation lists and the 1710-12 NY Hunter Subsistence Rolls showing the all-important juxtaposition of names of all the emigrants; 650+ pages on Swiss and German families who settled in North Carolina 1710-11; Lists of Palatines returning from England to Holland in 1710 and 1717; 800+ pages of later Palatine arrivals in colonial New York 1717-76; Emigration data from German archives on Pennsylvania settlers 1727-1760; Data on immigrants to America from Canton Zurich in the 1730s; Lists of Salzburgers going to America and passing through Schwabisch Hall, 1750s; and Nova Scotia Palatine passenger lists 1750-52.