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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“We must cling to the belief that the incomprehensible is comprehensible; otherwise we would not continue to search.”
—Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe (1749–1832)
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