Speaker. I rise today to join my friends and colleagues in Saugerties. New York. in commemorating the landing of the Palatine immigrants in Ulster County in October 1710. The Saugerties Historical Society will be dedicating a monument marking this event on Saturday. June 13th to celebrate the immigrant roots of our great nation and to admire the hard work and perseverance of these hardworking people who struggled to get to America. The Palatine settlers in the Hudson Valley created some of the very first settlements of European peoples in America and their first winter was characterized by harsh weatherbut they persevered. building a church and a schoolhouse. and settling into the Hudson Valley which reminded them so much of the Rhine river valley. The monument which will be dedicated on Saturday will be placed on the grounds of Saint Pauls Lutheran Church. where the remains of the Reverend Joshua Kocherthal are interred.
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