Germantown, New York

In 1710, Robert Livingston sold 6,000 acres of his property to Anne, Queen of Great Britain, for use as work camps and resettlement of Palatine German refugees. Some 1,200 persons were settled at work camps to manufacture naval stores and pay off their passage as indentured labor.

Johann “Joseph” Finkle, an ancestor on my father’s side, was born there.