and was located
along the Rhine River, roughly where the modern state of Rhineland-Pfalz is located. In
the 18th and 19th century, the term "Palatine" was used in America to describe
the immigrants from the "Palatinate" and other adjoining German-speaking areas.

Palatinate, or German Pfalz, was, in German History, the lands of the Count
Palatine, a title held by a leading secular prince of the Holy Roman Empire.
Geographically, the Palatinate was divided between two small territorial clusters: the
Rhenish, or Lower Palatinate, and the Upper Palatinate. The Rhenish Palatinate included
lands on both sides of the Middle Rhine River between its Main and Neckar tributaries. The
Rhenish capital until the 18th century was Heidelberg. The Upper Palatinate was located in
northern Bavaria, on both sides of the Naab River as it flows south toward the Danube, and
extendedeastward to the Bohemian Forest. The boundaries of the Palatinate varied with the
political and dynastic fortunes of the counts palatine.

During the war of the Grand Alliance, (1689-97) the troops of the French monarch
Louis XIV ravaged the Rhenish Palatinate. During the French Revolutionary and Napoleonic
Wars, the Palatinate's lands on the west bank of the Rhine were incorporated into France,
while its eastern lands were divided largely between neighboring Baden and Hesse. After
the defeat of Napoleon (1814-15) the Congress of Vienna gave the east-bank lands to
Bavaria. These lands, together with some surrounding territories, again took the name of
Palatinate in 1838."

In the record of their son, Johannes', marriage, it states that Jacob and Margarethe
Köhler were married in Busenberg. Baptismal records prior to 1745 are missing or
destroyed. There are no existing records of