The German Palatines were 13,000 refugees from French invasions who came to England in 1709. The British government sent 3,000 of them to the Thirteen Colonies,

Becoming German tells the intriguing story of the largest and earliest mass movement of German-speaking immigrants to America. The so-called Palatine migration

When originally published in 1933, this classic work listed for the first time the names of the early Palatines of New York State, the original settlers of the