Christoph von Graffenried, 1st Baron of Bernberg

Christoph von Graffenried, 1st Baron of Bernberg, from a Swiss land speculator and leader who foundd New Bern, North Carolina in the early Swiss and German colonization of America. Much of what is known of Von Graffenried, who was from a Swiss patrician family, comes from his memoir, Relation of My American Project, which recounts his experience as the Baron of Bernberg and Landgrave of Carolina. ^{Christoph von Graffenried, Swiss-American settler and author (d. 1743)}

15 November 1661

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