GEORGE KORNEGAY
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WILL OF GEORGE KORNEGAY SON OF JOHN GEORGE KORNEGAY NOVEMBER 21ST 1773
Decendedants Of John George Kornegay
John George Kornegay was born before 1660 in Kingdom of Talsen or Talhausen Germany, and died September 22nd 1711 in New Bern North Carolina.Who he married is unknown, but the were married around 1698 .
Documents preserved in the British Museum Library, London England , Board of Trade Misc., Vol 2, Pg.57.
May 6th 1709 –A list of all the poor German lately come over from the Palatinate (Rine River Area) into this Kingdom Tolsen in St. Catharines. (1) Hornigh (Kornegay now) John George , age 38 years, his wife (no age) , sons (2) 2 8 and 2 years old , daughters (2) 12 and 10 years old. Member of the Reformed Church . Husbandman and Winedresser.
Sailed for America in Jan, 1710, with a group sponsored by Barron Christopher De Graffenreid and settled in Craven County , N.C. near the present city of New Bern.
N.C. State Archives – Craven County N.C. Court Minutes, 1712-1713.
August 1713 – Disposition of orphans. Jacob Muller (Miller) took into his care two orphans and promised to teach thenm to read and write and take care of them until 21 years of age , and to have them taught a carpenters trade. These orphans were George Kornegay and George Koonce. (George Koonce , Craven County Will, Prob. Abt 1772)
Notes Summarized By Sue Meinhart
John George Kornegay and his wife were the upper palatinate of the Rhine River (now Germany) . As Protestants they (John George Kornegay along with his wife and children (two sons and two daughters ) fled their homes during the Spanish Succession. They had gone first to England and from there on May 6th 1709 , were ready to leave with the Barron Von Graffenried Colony.
John George Kornegay came to America in one of the two Flotillas by recruited by Barron Christopher Von Graffenried in 1710 . John George was a Husbandman (farmer) and wine dresser. John George Kornegay along with other Palatines settled in New Bern , Craven County , North Carolina . The family tradition has it that the Kornegays Stooped First in the New Bern Colony and then settled up the Neuse River.
John was massacred on the 22nd of September 1711 by the Tuscaroras Indians along with all his family except for his young son , George , Because the people in the New Bern Colony had cheated the Indians in trade and taken game , ammunition , and arms away from them. The Indians had saved up their resentments until one September morning in 1711 when 500 Braves in small bands drifted into New Bern , pretending friendly errands. Within two hours of the signal for attack , they slaughtered 130 settlers . Ifants they smashed against trees. Stakes were driven through womens bodies. At New Berns first call on South Carolina for help, “Tuscarora Jack” Barnwell marched with a mixed force of whites and friendly Indians 300 miles north to the stricken Neuse. He defeated the Tuscaroras , but left an uneasy truce, many of his men having hurried away to sell Indian captives at the going rate of 10 dollars per head.In 1712 , at Fort Nohoroco on Contentia Creek, James Monroe broke the power and spirit of the Tuscaroras. His score “392 prisoners, 193 Scolps, and at least 200 killed & burnt. A remnant of the Tuscaroras slunk nort to become the Sixth Nation of the Iroquois Confederation in New York Province.