George Kornegay was a German Palatine born in about 1701 who emigrated to the New Bern colony in 1709. Initially a resident of Craven County, Kornegay was among the longest-lived of the Palatine colonists. An owner of enslaved people, in 1749 Kornegay received compensation for an enslaved man named Will (owned by Kornegay), who had been convicted of theft. In the 1750s Kornegay moved to Duplin County, North Carolina, where he died in November 1773.