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 | | Johannes GROAT, the founder of the GROAT family line under study, was probably born in the vicinity of Neuwied, Germany around 1680 and married his wife, Walburgis or Walpurga (last name unknown), around 1699. |
 | | It is probable that Johannes was among the Palatine refugees who fled Germany to Holland and, via Rotterdam, went first to England, in 1709, and then to the Palatine Settlement in and around Livingston Manor along the Hudson River, New York, arriving there during the summer of 1710. |
 | | Gabriel GROAT of Kathoway, the son of Johannes Groat (1) and his wife Walpurga, was probably born in Germany around 1703, came to America with his parents in 1710 and lived in Annsbury, part of the Palatine settlement along the Hudson River. |
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