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Pennsylvania Dutch†

DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

Entry from the DCHP-1 (pre-1967)

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one of the substantial number of settlers of German origin coming into British North America from Pennsylvania during and after 1776.

Quotations

1831

Let Mackenzie stick to the Central Committee, the Saddlebags, & the Pennsylvania Dutch of the Home District--the moment he separates from them he's a gone duck.

1887

They were commonly called "Pennsylvania-Dutch"; most of them were members of the Society of Friends, or Quakers, and all were an excellent class of settlers.

1958

[They were] more commonly known as Pennsylvania Dutch because of the mistranslation of the German Deutsch as "Dutch" rather than "German," came originally from Palatinate Germany.