David and I and Mr. Pumpkin In 2012, David and I went to Nova Scotia to visit Ship Harbour where my ancestor Michael Eisan lived his...

In 2012, my husband David and I went to South Carolina to see where Michael Greissen Frein and the Palatines ended up. They were sent...

As I mentioned in my blog last week, my ancestor Michael left his home in the Palatine in 1764 on his way to the New World. Along with...

The first thing we know for sure about Michael is that he joined an emigration scheme in 1763. A man with the improbable name of Count...

In the book The Loyalists at Kings Mountain, it is written that Michael Isham “evacuated Fort Ninety Six with Lt. Col. John H....

In many ways the American Revolution was as much a civil war as a revolution. Not every colonist took up arms against the British; many...

In the years following the Seven Years’ War (1754-1763), tens of thousands of Germans left for the New World to improve their worldly...

Michael Eisan was born Michael Greissen Frein in the Palatine region of Germany (Pfalz) sometime around 1730, exactly where or when we do...