Fortv thousand dollars had been expended in the experiment by the British government, and a hundred and thirty thousand more from Governor Hunter's private pocket; but at length the whole scheme of colonisation was acknowledred to be a failure, and the colonists were

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permitted to mcn'e where they pleased or to buy the lands upon which they were settled. The settlement was made in 1 7 1 o-i i . In the French and Indian War which soon followed, the Enghsh found no more ready volunteers than the Palatines, who had old scores to wipe out. This same warlike spirit was again shown, when in sui:)port of the Continental cause,

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this time in o])])Osition to the English, their descendants filled not only the ranks of the Ulster regiments, but ];)rovided not a few of the military officers. General Herkimer was the most distinguished soldier of Palatine descent. Under such leaders as Captain John Conrad Weiser and Captain Hartman Winedecker, the yeomen of Saugerties and \'icinity made a good record. Oiie of the early ministers of the German exiles was Josiah Kocherthal, a man of scholarly attainments and a poetic temperament. His epitaph in the cemetery at

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West Camp (Newton) is given in translation by Benjamin Myer Brink, in his History of Saugerties, as follows :

Know traveller, under this stone rests, beside his Sibylla Charlotte, a real traveller, of the High Dutch in North America their Joshua, and a pure Lutheran preacher of the same on the east and west side of the Hudson River. His first arrival was with Lord Lovelace in 1709, the first of January. His second with Col. Hunter, 17 10, the fourteenth of June. The journey of his soul to Heaven on St.