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Note: hat had come down from Virginia.Most of these Hugenots moved on to South Carolina. John Lawson, the English Surveyor General of NC, and Franz Louis Michel, a Swiss, had been living in NC and was back in England, wrote books telling of the great opportunities there. In 1710 he joined up with Christopher von DeGraffenreid, who acquired 17,500 acres of land and ships on behalf of a Swiss land Company, to take about 650 unwanted German Palatines to NC. DeGraffenreid sent them off to NC and he went to Bern, Switzerland and picked industrious people of various crafts to take and join the others in NC. A large Swiss group traveled down the Rhine River, but only 100 were allowed passage to England and then on to NC. When the Swiss arrived, they found matters in sad shape as about half of the Palatines had died and the others weak and sickly and pirates had plundered their best goods. They traveled overland from Hampton, VA. to their land between the Trent and Neuse Rivers in NC. The Swiss at once started building the town which they called New Bern. But Graffenreid and the Palatines had many more troubles with the English and the Indians and struggled to just survive the first 3 or 4 years. In 1711, the Tuscarora Indians killed about 130-140 settlers, about half of which were Swiss and Palatines.
John Hudler is believed to be one of the 100 Swiss immigrants from Bern, brought to NC in 1710. It is possible that he could have been one of the German Palatines or even French Hugenots. The borders of Germany, Switzerland and France all come together at a single point. Swiss people had migrated into France and the Palatine region of Germany. According to the book "German Family Name Origins", the name "Hudler" is an old Swiss name from Bern. Also, DNA testing has shown that there is a concentration of people with my DNA type, Haplogroup I1a, in the Switzerland Area.
Important Note:
These first 5 generations of Hudler families in America as set forth in this earlyhudler.ged database are my summation of the relationships based on my examination of the known records. Some are proven and some are speculation. If anyone has documentation to the contrary, please contact me.
Use only as a guideline for your own research and feel free to contact me if you think differently.
Known descendents past the 4th generation are divided into 6 databases:
1. The desc. of William Hudler, 1778 (mostly in Texas) wmhudler.ged
2. The desc. of Timothy Hudler, 1780 (mostly in Texas) timhudler.ged
3. The desc. of James Hudler, 1800 (in Ashe Co., NC) jameshudler.ged
4. The desc. of Joseph Hudler, 1807 (Forsyth Co., NC) joshudler.ged
5. The desc. of Lemuel Hudler, 1801 (went to IA) lemhudler.ged
6. The desc. of Claude Frederick Hudler, 1806 (Columbus Co., NC) fredhudler.ged
You must go to these databases to find what I have collected. There is a lot of incorrect information out there.
Note: Before 1710, in North Carolina, there were a few English settlers and a few French Hugenots t
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