the Journey
1750s
Migrated from the Rhinelands to Pennsylvania
1760s
Migrate to Stokes County, North Carolina
1800s
Migrate to Claiborne County, Tennessee
In-Laws
The following families married into the family along the way:
Walker Family
Scott Family
Stories about the family…
Michael and Peter Fulp | 1776 Cherokee Expedition
Both pension applications for Michael and Peter Fulp describe their participation in the 1776 Cherokee Expedition. The Cherokee Expedition was the combined efforts of militias from multiple colonies to exterminate the Cherokee and open up land for Euro-American settlers. At the end of the Seven Years’ War (commonly known as the French and Indian War…
Peter Fulp | “Scotch Tories”
Georg Volpp had emigrated from the Rhinelands in the 1750s to escape perpetual war as the dynastic powers around him continued to march across the countryside. A generation later, the British Crown and its colonists were about to engage in war again. The backcountry of North Carolina, where Volpp settled, was also home to the…
Georg Volpp | Immigrant
Georg Volpp arrived in Philadelphia in 1751 as part of a wave of German migration to the British Colonies. His ship, the Phoenix, sailed from Rotterdam via Portsmouth, to Philadelphia. Flight Religious wars had decimated the central Europe, with Catholic and Protestant forces battling for control. The aftereffects of the Thirty Years War was still…
Finding the Yellow Bricks 