[SunkenCiv]

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Thanks Pharmboy. There were already lots of German speakers in Penn and NY, so it's not surprising that a good many stuck around. They could get land (unheard of in Europe) and not worry (after the Revolution) about feudal lords and whatnot. Just adding to the catalog, not sending a general distribution.. To all -- please ping me to other topics which are appropriate for the GGG list.

[Pharmboy]

Indeed there were...and many were pacifist farmers during colonial times. That could be why many German POWs were sent to PA.

In western PA during the early part of the French and Indian war, they could not get enough of the settlers to fight the Indians, so they brought in Scots and Irish to do the fighting...that's how Hugh Mercer (Gen. Mercer died a hero's death at Princeton in 1777) got to western PA before he settled in VA.