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    Final Resting Place: Ship Harbour, Nova Scotia
    • Sep 2, 2018

    Final Resting Place: Ship Harbour, Nova Scotia

    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...
    The American Revolution in South Carolina
    • Aug 23, 2018

    The American Revolution in South Carolina

    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...
    A Case of Crowd-Funding, 1764
    • Aug 15, 2018

    A Case of Crowd-Funding, 1764

    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...
    #TheLoyalist
    • Aug 9, 2018

    #TheLoyalist

    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...
    The Siege of Ninety Six
    • Feb 28, 2017

    The Siege of Ninety Six

    In the book The Loyalists at Kings Mountain, it is written that Michael Isham “evacuated Fort Ninety Six with Lt. Col. John H....
    A Civil Battle at King’s Mountain
    • Feb 27, 2017

    A Civil Battle at King’s Mountain

    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...
    Crowd-funding in 1764 London
    • Feb 20, 2017

    Crowd-funding in 1764 London

    In the years following the Seven Years’ War (1754-1763), tens of thousands of Germans left for the New World to improve their worldly...
    A Trip down the Rhine
    • Feb 15, 2017

    A Trip down the Rhine

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

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