Families that Arrived in Craven County North Carolina
This will be an ongoing reference of our families who left Europe during the Palatine movement for the colonies. Effective 9.23.2010 I know that the Maggard, Kornegay and Isler families left for the New World. The Maggard family in 1716 and arrived in PA. The Kornegay and Isler family left on separate journeys, best I can determine, but both in 1710 and eventually married and became the Kornegay family. Save for one ten year old boy the Kornegay family was savagely killed in an 3 day Massacre known as The Tuscarora War. Harriet Kornegay married James Wesley Butler and their first born child was Monroe Butler. December 4, 1909 he married Jessie Maggard in Vimville, Mississippi.
Who Were the Palatines?
One oft quoted writer of New York Palatine history has referred to "... the great migration of the Palatine Dutch ...." But the Palatines were not of Dutch descent.
The word "Palatine" has several meanings, including a Latin definition that is relevant to medieval history only. But at the time our various family branches migrated, the Palatinate (or Pfalz in German) was that part of Germany east of France and Luxemburg and west of the Rhine. Sometimes, the political jurisdiction of the Pfalz also extended to adjacent lands on the east side of the Rhine in the vicinity of Frankfurt, Heidelberg, and Mannheim.
This region had been devastated repeatedly during the 1600's, first as the result of long religious and political wars (including the 1618-1648 Thirty Years War) and later when Louis XIV of France repeatedly attempted to expand his kingdom's border through this area eastward to the Rhine River.
Palatines and the Dutch
When the Palatines began to leave in large numbers in the early 1700s, they traveled down the Rhine and through Holland on their way to America. Some stayed in Holland for a year or two awaiting passage to England or to America. When they eventually settled in New York state, they again came in contact with Dutch people who had been the original colonizers of New York (known as New Amsterdam until 1664).
Many of the Palatines shared a religious association with the Dutch via the "Reformed" or Calvinist churches of the 18th century. Reformed churches were especially strong in Holland, along the lower Rhine, in the Pfalz, and in Switzerland. The Dutch Reformed Church was the first Reformed church to come from continental Europe to America. It was well established in New York before the English seized that colony in 1664. After England took control, they allowed the Dutch church to maintain its ecclesiastical ties to its governing body in Amsterdam. In the absence of any other Reformed churches in the New York area, the German Palatine settlers often turned to the Dutch Reformed Church to provide ministers for their new congregations.
Despite these frequent associations with the Dutch, the Palatines were not Dutch. They came from Germany, not from Holland. That fact is now well established via Jones' genealogical research. We also should remember that in American usage, the word "Dutch" is often a corruption of the German word Deutsch. For example, today's Pennsylvania Dutch are actually descendants of 17th and 18th century settlers from the German Rhineland and southern Germany.
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Kornegay from England May 1710 arrived 1710. September 22.1711 all but George Henry Kornegay were killed in a 3 day Indian Massacre. He arrived with at least two parents, one brother and one or two sisters.
John George Kornegay His original name was Georg HORNIGH (also spelled GNAEGI". "Georg" was later anglicized to "George" and the original spelling of his German last name evolved in English through several phonetic variations to its present form, KORNEGAY.
Birth o 1680 in Upper, Rhine, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Death o 22 Sept 1711 in Craven, North Carolina, United States
Wife: (new information)
Susannah Stevens
Birth o 1679 in Upper, Rhine, Rheinland-Pfalz, Germany
Death o 22 Sep 1711 in New Berne, Craven, North Carolina, United States
George Kornegay
Birth o 1701 in Upper Palatinate,Rhein River, Germany
Death o 29 Nov 1773 in Craven, North Carolina, United States
From John Martin Oates Book George Kornegay - Born Abt 1701 in Germany, Died Nov 1773 in Craven County, NC George KORNEGAY was the founder of the KORNEGAY family in America. His original name was Georg HORNIGH (also spelled GNAEGI". "Georg" was later anglicized to "George" and the original spelling of his German last name evolved in English through several phonetic variations to its present form, KORNEGAY.
The Craven County Court Minutes of 1712 indicate that Georg was an orphan apprenticed to a Jacob MUELLER of Craven County. According to his own statement, he was one of a company of German Palatines who came to America with Baron Christophe von GRAFFENRIEDT in 1709-1710.
An excerpt from a North Carolina history book reads "The first straggling settlements in North Carolina after the Clarendon Grant of 1663 were gradually broken up. While North Carolina was not a separate province until 1729, the country had been settled about the year 1710 by a colony of Swiss and Palatines from Germany who had fled from the north after a disastrous war with the Indians, and seeking a retreat they settled in the Carolina, wilderness." They founded the town of New Berne in Craven County. From all accounts the Palatines were strong and sturdy people. The lands occupied by them on the Neuse and Trent rivers were, after several years, claimed and taken over by Colonel Thomas POLLACK, causing them considerable inconvenience and distress. They petitioned King George of England for relief and lands were granted to them by the Colonial Council.
George KORNEGAY received several grants for land in Craven and Duplin Counties between the years 1736 and 1756. At a council meeting in 1742 he was permitted to prove his right for land and listed ten persons in family and six slaves. His land in Duplin County, described by metes and bounds, included the old Kornegay burying ground near Alum Springs and Kornegay's Bridge and for a time he lived there. He was a member of the Duplin Foot Militia in 1754 and 1755. He died in Craven County in NOV 1773 at about 72 years of age. Extrapolating from his Will, George owned some 2190 acres of land.
Isler
NICHOLAS ISLER
Birth o 1661 in Came, Switzerland
Death o 1730 in Craven, North Carolina, United States
Name: Nicholas Isler
Year: 1709
Age: 48
Estimated birth year: abt 1661
Place: England but source states birth "Came, Switzerland"
Family Members: Wife; Daughter 1; Daughter 5; Son 15; Son 6; Son 8
was a mason and stone cutter and of the Reformed religion
Source Publication Code: 4772
Primary Immigrant: Isler, Nicholas
Annotation: Four Board of Trade lists of the first 6,520 Palatines to arrive in 1709, compiled in England by John Tribekko and George Ruperti, German clergymen (see no. 9214). Many came to America soon after arrival in London. There is much information on the immigration.
Source Bibliography: "LISTS OF GERMANS FROM THE PALATINATE Who Came to England in 1709." In The New York Genealogical and Biographical Record. Vol. 40:1 (Jan. 1909), pp. 49-54; vol. 40:2 (Apr. 1909), pp. 93-100; vol. 40:3 (July 1909), pp. 160-167; vol. 40:4 (Oct. 1909), pp. 241-248.
Page: 244
The Palatines left Germany, migrated to Switzerland, then to England and then then to the colonies, particularly Craven County, North Carolina.
Bibliography
JONES, VICTOR T., JR. "Swiss-Palatines to New Bern: A List of Known Persons Who Left Switzerland and Germany to Settle New Bern, N. C., in 1710." In North Carolina Genealogical Society Journal, vol. 23:1 (February 1997), pp. 3-10.
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