You can read a transcribed story of the History of the Palatine
Immigration. It begins with the earliest Palatine immigration
and where they settled in the United States. It also tells about
the “Golden Book”, mentioned on Who Do You Think You Are?, which
encouraged the Palatine people to leave their homes in the Rhine
country for London to eventually settle in the Carolinas, or
other of Her Majesty's colonies. It also tells of the tremendous
hardships the Palatines found as they settled, and how they were
cheated in New York. I did find the story of Hans Josh Heydt, or
Yost Hite, as his name is sometimes written, in a digitized book
at Ancestry.com called Virginia Prominent Families, originally
published in 1907 by Louise Pecquet du Bellet. Chapter XIII
Hite, Madison, Fontaine and Maury Families. The Hite Family in
America begins: “In 1710, Hans Josh Heydt, or Yost Hite, as his
name is spelled in English documents dated at the time of his
emigration, a native of Alsace, Germany, came from Strasburg to
New Yo