 Official correspondence in British records shows a combined total of 13,146 refugees traveled down the Rhine and or from Amsterdam to England in the summer of 1709.More than 3500 of these were returned from England either because they were Roman Catholic or at their own request.Henry Jones quotes an entry in a churchbook by the Pastor of Dreieichenhain that states a total of 15,313 Germans left their villages in 1709 "for the so-called New America and, of course, Carolina."