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Definition of Palatines
1. palatine [n] - See also: palatine
Lexicographical Neighbors of Palatines
Literary usage of Palatines
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A History of Herkimer County: Including the Upper Mohawk Valley, from the by Nathaniel Soley Benton (1856)
"The Immigration of the palatines — Joshua ... arrival — His Instructions — John
Conrad Weiser — Third Arrival of palatines, 1722 —Burnet to Board of Trade ..."
2. The Story of the Pennsylvania Germans: Embracing an Account of Their Origin by William Beidelman (1898)
"palatines settle in Ireland. New York received a large German immigration at an
... The influences which operated to send many palatines to Pennsylvania, ..."
3. Maryland as a Proprietary Province by Newton Dennison Mereness (1901)
"ments nor by the making of hemp on the eastern shore, but through the opening,
chiefly by the industrious palatines, of the resources of the rich wheat ..."
4. English Colonies in America by John Andrew Doyle (1907)
"If the palatines were to be purveyors for the English navy, ... All the documents
with reference to the palatines are to be found in the New York Historical ..."
5. Minutes of the Provincial Council of Pennsylvania: From the Organization to by Pennsylvania Provincial Council (1852)
"A Paper being drawn up to be signed by those palatines, who should come into this
Provinc with an Intention to settle therein, pursuant to the order of this ..."
6. German Achievements in America: A Tribute to the Memory of the Men and Women by Rudolf Cronau (1916)
"Furthermore, the government, instead of granting the palatines the same privileges
that ... So the palatines were settled along the shores of the Hudson, ..."
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