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Note: REFERENCE: 100 Martin Stupp arrived in NY on Capt. Jno. Untank's ship in the 5th party
of Platines in Holland
(Rotterdam Lists).
He was naturalized 31 Jan 1715/16 (Albany Nats.).
The group of Germans who came from the Palatinate to New York originated
along the Rhine River, in
that area known as the Palatinate, after the title of its ruler. During
the rule of Louis XIV of Franceand
the Thirty Years War the region was devastated. In 1707, French troops
burned and killed in order to
drive the Spanish out of the area. Along with this, the ruler of the
area was forcing his subjects to join
the Catholic Church. The winter of 1708-1709, over 13,000 Palatines
traveled to Rotterdam, Holland, a
journey of six weeks. They were following the steps of another group who
had made the trip a year
earlier and were reportedly treated well, becoming citizens of Britain
under the Naturalization Act of
1708. Thesecond group however, did not receive such good treatment.
They were campedoutside
Rotterdam from May to October and then some were sent to London, while
the others remained in
Rotterdam.
The Royal Navy needed timber, pitch,and tar and it was decided to use
the Palatines in America to set
up camps.Almost 3000 were shipped to New York in December of 1709, at
least they boarded the
ships then. On April 10, 1710, they finally left England but did not
arrive in America until August.
Many of the passengers died, including 80children on just one ship.
The passengers, reported to
have typhoid, overwhelmed the city of New York, which at the time had
only about 5000 inhabitants.
They were camped on Nutten's (Now Governor's) Island until October of
1710 and then were sent to
land purchased from Robert Livingston almost a hundred miles up the
Hudson River. Livingston was
supposed to provide each person with bread and beer daily. The Palatines
cleared the land, and built
simple huts. Mortality in the area was high. The British believe they
hada contract for the Palatines
to serve 7 years making tar until their passagewas paid for. At this
time, they would each receive 4
acres. This was notthe Palatines' understanding of the contract.
In May 1711, four hundred Palatines, rebelled, meeting with the Governor
and demanding that he meet
the contract as stated to them by the Queen. The Governor, putting them
off, was reinforced by a
military detachment and ended the revolt.
In 1712, an end tothe tar-making business left the Palatines on their
own. Two groups went byland
to the Schoharie Valley and part of these later moved on to Pennsylvania.
One of those was Martin Stupp:
He came with Conrad Weiser, brought by QueenAnne of England, from
Wurtemburg to clear land and
cultivate hemp in return for his passage. He left Germany in 1709, and 2
months later reached London,
England. He arrived in New York on 13 June 1710 and became free in
1713.He then went to the
Jocharie (Schoharie) Valley, about 40 miles west of Albany. The Queen
died and he received no land
as promised. He and his family came down the Susquehanna in canoes in
after 1725 and settled the
Tulpehocken Settlement.
He and his family were charter members of the Christ Church Evangelical
Lutheran, located on the
Tulpehocken River in Marion Township. The church was organized in 1743.
At a later date, a church
was built inwhat is now Rehrersburg, in the "Manor of Andulhea". This
church was knownas the "
Atolhoe" [Atalaha] church.
He signed a petition at the Court of Quarter Sessions in Philadelphia in
September 1727 for a road from
Olney to Tulpehoecken, His will was proven 18 March 1755.
He was issued a warrant to have a parcel of land surveyed in Richard
Penn's Manor Andulhea on 12
May 1732, and the 118 acres of surveyed land, located ca. 1-1/4 miles
n.w. of Rehrersburg, were
patented to Martin on 20 June 1748
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