The standard reference work on the subject, though old, is
Walter A. Knittle, Early Eighteenth-Century Palatine Emigration: A British
Government Redemptioner Project to Manufacture Naval Stores (1936)


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On Fri, 4 May 2001, Harold H. Miller wrote:

>About 1711 the British established seven "camps" at Livingston Manor for Palatine Germans who had been brought over to settle the British colonies in its colonies in America. There they were set to work making tar for the British Navy. How many years was it before this enterprise failed, and what was the reason for the failure?
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>(I live in Mexico, so I must be able to find the answer on the internet.)
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