Ah, another FReeper with ancestors from the Palatinate! My patrilineal descent traces to a Jacob Yetter (probably the spelling was Englished from Jetter, expecially considering we know a Jetter family who also traces their ancestry to the Palatinate) who came through the port of Philadelphia in 1763. I’m not sure whether I’d have ticked the German box or the American, probably German since my maternal grandmother is of East Prussian ancestry, and I also had some Alsastian ancestors. Of course, I also have Scots (both Highland and Lowland), Scots-Irish, and English ancestors, and physically take after my svartnorwegian far mor much more than any of my other recent ancestors.
I came from here. I was born here, my parents were born here. American is my ancestry
My Kast family had a prosperous farm in Schorie County and they were cheated out of it..I went to the Old Stone Fort this past summer..
most of the other families went south to northern PA “Pennsylvania Dutch” (really Deutche)...
Kast refused to have any English speaking and writing man cheat him again and went up the Mohawk River amongst the indians determined to live where no white man would covet his land again...
He built a trading post and traded with the indians and fur trappers and later his daughter my 6th great grandmother Sarah Kast and her Irish husband Timothy McGinnis ran it..
However the rebels burnt it down in 1777 and imprisoned that same 60 year old wida woman and her daughters and grandchildren in Fort Dayton...
They escaped when General St Leger came to the area and fled north to Canada...