This book begins with an account of the Palatinate communities along the Rhine River in Germany, describing their great exodus to the American colonies in the early 1700s, and their settlement in the Carolinas, Virginia, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, and New York. The emphasis is on N.Y. with briefer accounts of the settlements around Berks Co., Pa., and other colonies. (336pp. index. Heritage Books, 1988 reprint of 1897 ed.)