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each family two hundred and fifty acres of land, to be held five
years without cost, and from that period at the annual rent of
two-pence currency per acre. The Palatines were to be supplied
twelve months with necessary provisions, to be paid for at the
end of the following year ; and they were to be furnished, gratis,
with tools sufiicient for building houses. It was also stipulated
that, within four months from their arrival, they should be provided
with a certain number of cows, hogs and sheep, which
were to be paid for at the end of seven years ; and half the remaining
issue was to be returned in lieu of interest.
The commissioners allowed five pounds sterling per head, for
transporting the Palatines ; and those people, who had each of
them, young and old, received twenty shillings of the charitable
collections, made throughout the kingdom, lodged that money
in the hands of Graffenried and Michell, to be returned to
them in Carolina.* The Palatines arrived in December, 1709,
at the confluence of the rivers Neuse and Trent, where they
erected temporary shelters until they could be put in possession
of their lands. The place on which they encamped was called
New Bern, from Bern in Switzerland, where Graffenried was
born. The Palatines had too much reason to complain of their
trustees; for Graff'enried, in whose name the lands were taken
up, returned to Switzerland without giving them a title to their
settlements. He mortgaged the lands to Thomas Pollock for
eight hundred pounds sterling ; and they passed to the heirs of
that gentleman.
Note.—Pollock, by a letter to Graffenried, Feb. 16, 1716, offered to
return to him the land, fifteen thousand acres, if he would re-pay the
money.
The Palatines in the meantime, being industrious and living
in a country where land was plenty and cheap, increased in
* The commissioners were John Philips, Alexander Cairnes, Theodore
Janson, White Kennet, John Camberlin, Frederick Store, Micaiah
Perry.
The article of agreement was dated Oct. 10, 1709, in the eighth year
of Queen Anne.
There were six hundred poor Palatines;—ninety-two families.
This article was signed by the seven commissioners ; Christopher
De Graffenried and Lewis Michell, in the presence of William Taylor
and James De Pratt, Oct. 21, 1709.