His words in English were superb too.
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Lots of Germans from the colonial period, mostly in the mountainous regions from PA through VA. What is known as the KY rifle is actually the PA rifle, as it was PA German (not Amish) gunsmiths who developed this firearm.
I didn’t know they were so stubborn. Later USA immigrants didn’t seem to be so, thus do I think we never hear about our huge German roots in our American culture.
I can’t think of a single German-speaking Loyalist down here in NC. There were several notable Patriots with the majority remaining studiously neutral, rendering medical aid and providing spritual assistance to all who needed it.
Survived the indian wars that way, the Cherokee knew them as the kind Dutch fort people with much bread. Surrounding English settlements weren’t so inclined to peaceable coexistence and were thus perceived as enemies. The fort was there to protect settlers until the raid subsided, mostly English settlers.
My direct paternal line fifth great grandfather was of those English but he married a German (German speaking but of Alsatian origin by way of Pennsylvania). His neighbor Joseph Winston had a “blockhouse” that served the same purpose as the fort, protection from raids, but it couldn’t accomodate everybody when the Cherokee came a-calling again.
So, those who couldn’t be accomodated in the blockhouse fled to Bethabara, to the paling fort, to the German speaking Moravians who regarded them with a little disdain, thought they were spritually dead actually, but helped them anyway as they were commanded by God to do it. Tbey regarded their relationship to governments similarly. Render unto Caesar.