HISTORICAL DATA-1709 (Old Style):

•  JANUARY:    On January 8 (New Style) of this year the Rhone, one of the most rapid rivers of Europe, is covered with ice in the continuing severe winter in Europe.  (SOURCE:  Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration Walter Allen Knittle Dorance Company, Philadelphia ((1923)), pg. 4).     

•  FEBRUARY:    On February 5 of this year, in response to growing public pressure, leave is given in the House of Commons to bing in a bill for naturalizing foreign Protestants.  (SOURCE:  Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration Walter Allen Knittle Dorance Company, Philadelphia ((1923)), pg. 27). 

•  MARCH:    In the House of Commons in England the bill for naturalizing foreign Protestants living in England is passed on March 7 (Old Style)  of this year by a vote of 203 to 77, over the protests and opposition of the City of London, whose authorities had wanted a clause inserted in the bill to protect their own rights to the duties paid by aliens.  (SOURCE:  Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration Walter Allen Knittle Dorance Company, Philadelphia ((1923)), pg. 27).

•  APRIL:    On April 28 (Old Style) of this year the English diarist Lutrell reports foreign news of Palatine Germans coming to England; however, they do not intend to stay there. Their ultimate destination is the English colony of Pennsylvania in America.  (SOURCE:  Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration Walter Allen Knittle Dorance Company, Philadelphia ((1923)), pg. 22).

•  MAY:    On May 12 (Old Style) of this year the diarist Luttrell again reports foreign news of Palatine Germans coming to England bound for the English colony of Pennsylvania in America.  (SOURCE:  Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration Walter Allen Knittle Dorance Company, Philadelphia ((1923)), pg. 22). 

•  JUNE:    On June 12 (Old Style) of this year in England a Protestant French citizen petitions Queen Anne of England on behalf of "a million persecuted protestants" for her aid. She replies that "she had already given her ministers abroad instructions concerning the same and will doe for them what else lies in her power."  (SOURCE:  Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration Walter  Allen Knittle Dorrance Company, Philadelphia ((1923)), pg. 24).

• JUNE:    On June 27 (Old Style) of this year the Protestant Consistory in the Palatine area of Germany issues a declaration made  by direction from the Catholic Elector Palatine denying religious oppression as the reason why large numbers of German people have fled the Palatine for England and Pennsylvania in America.  (Source:  Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration Walter Allen Knittle Dorrance Company, Philadelphia  ((1923)), pg. 10).     

• JUNE (NO SPECIFIC DATE-OLD STYLE):    At some time during this month a dispatch from Holland reports that the German Palatines, both Protestants and Catholics, "seem to agree all very well, being several of them mixed together, husbands and wives of different religion or united by parentage." Further, they are leaving the Palatinate "not so much for religion" as for other reasons.  (SOURCE:  Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration Walter Allen Knittle Dorrance Company, Philadelphia  ((1923)), pg. 11).  

• JULY (OLD STYLE):    On July 7 (Old Style) of this year the Council of Ireland, with Joseph Addison among them, proposes to their English Queen that a number of Protestant German Palatines now living in England be sent to Ireland to strengthen the Protestant cause there.  (Source:  Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration Walter Allen Knittle Dorrance Company, Philadelphia  ((1923)), pg. 82).    

•  AUGUST(Old Style);    On August 2 (Old Style) of this year in England, an English gentleman, Roger Kenyon, writes to his sister-in-law that he has visited the German Palatines on Blackheath, a commons seven miles southeast of London. He adds that they "came over not on account of religious persecution, for most of them were uder Protestant princes..." (Source:  Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration Walter Allen Knittle Dorrance Company, Philadelphia  ((1923)), pg. 8).   

•  SEPTEMBER:   

•  OCTOBER

•  NOVEMBER:    In the period from May until this month, this year, shiploads of German people, variously estimated at from two thousand to thirty-two thousand, arrive in London, England from Germany.  (SOURCE:  Early Eighteenth Century Palatine Emigration Walter Allen Knittle Dorrance Company, Philadelphia  ((1923)), pg. 1).      

•  DECEMBER

•  (NO SPECIFIC DATE):    At some time during this year the County Hall in Jamaica, Queens County in the British colony of New York in North America is finished being rebuilt. The County Hall stands upon or near the site of the late female academy in Jamaica, which is later occupied by Herriman's brick buildigs.  (Source:  History of Long Island, Vol. II  by Benjamin F. Thompson, pg. 31).

• (FULL YEAR):    During this year, Queen Anne's WAR continues in North America. This is a series of skirmishes between the French and their Indian allies on one side, and the English colonists and their Indian allies on the other.  (SOURCE:  The American Nation...to 1877-Volume I, Second Edition, John A. Garraty, page 106).