Christoph von Graffenried (15 November 1661 – 1743) led a group of Swiss and Palatine Germans to North Carolina in British North America in 1705. He later authored Relation of My American Project, an account of the establishment of this colony.
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“Voluntary dependence is the wonderful form of existence, and how could that be possible without love?”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)