West Camp, New York

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Location: West Camp, Saugerties, Ulster County, New York, United States
Surnames/tags: palatine_migration new_york

West Camp, New York

West Camp was one of two work camps setup by the English, along the Hudson River, to temporarily house refugees (German Palatines) displaced by Louis XIV's invasion from France into the Holy Roman Empire. These German citizens who had initially escaped to England were then shipped to the Colonies, sympathy of Queen Anne of England, whom they came to serve in the reduction of the pine forest for naval stores for her Majesty's Fleet.

The site of West Camp is part of the modern town of Saugerties in Ulster County, New York.

The second camp was East Camp, which was across the Hudson River in what is now Columbia County.

Sources

• Palatine settlements named East Camp, West Camp, Poughkeepsie Journal, (online), Apr 12, 2016.
• East and West Camp Palatines - Transcription by Sylvia Hasenkopf of a commemorative plaque situated beside the Church in West Camp, Ulster County, New York. Includes a list of the family surnames associated with each camp.