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To: Tucker39
I was told that when Billy Penn parcelled out the land, he intentionally put a strip of Scotch-Irish Presbyterians along that section of the M-D Line as a buffer between the Germanic Lutherans farther north and the Catholics just across the line in Maryland.

He was quite a governor. I loved living in Pennsylvania for several decades, even though my roots are southern. My grandmom said we were distantly related to the Pitts and the Potts. (Pittsburgh and Pottstown.)

110 posted on 03/30/2021 6:17:41 AM PDT by Albion Wilde ("One steps out with actresses, one doesn't marry them."—Phillip, Duke of Edinburgh)
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To: Albion Wilde

Verrrrry interrrrrresting. Thanks.


111 posted on 03/30/2021 7:18:50 AM PDT by Tucker39 ("It is impossible so to rightly govern a nation without God and the Bible." George Washington )
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