The discouraged Palatine's migrate in huge numbers to the Tulpehocken region of Pennsylvania

The Paletine emigrants were restricted in New York Province to a maximum of 10 acres of land for each family and that was not enough to sustain a family. The Paletines were told by William Penn that there would be no such restrictions on purchasing farm land in Pennsylvania.

In 1723, thirty-three Palatine families, fed up with their restrictions in New York,, left for the Pennsylvania region of Tulpehocken at the invitation of Pennsylvania Governor William Keith. They settled along the Tulpehocken Creek in eastern Berks county.

Guided by Indians, the Palatine families cut their way through about 50 miles of forest, sleeping in the woods, until they reached the Susquehana river. There they built and launched heavy rafts to carry their domestic goods, and light and speedy canoes for themselves, accompanied slowly by their cattle, which were driven along the river's bank.

They slowly floated along until they reached the Tulpehocken region of Pennsylvania, nestled at the foot of the Blue mountains. The land they settled on was virtually "vacant". But they were surrounded by Indian villages, a harbinger of trouble to come.

Shortly after their arrival the Paletine emigrants informed Pennsylvania Governor Keith in a petition that 50 more families were prepared to join them in Tulpehocken. Soon there was a steady stream of Palatine families coming to settle in the region. In 1734 and by then a part of Lancaster county, the Paletine emigrant families were so many that another township had to be established and it was named "Heidelberg" after the part of Germany that most of the settlers had originally called home. By 1752 the township of Tulpehocken was a recognized Division.