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To: dfwgator

Funny, I am of German decent and a little Scotch throne in, my ancestors came over during the Revolutionary War , paid fighters that went to farming. Actually they were Hessians and General Washington supposedly gave them a cow and 13 acres of land if they didn’t fight. ( not sure of that but that’s what I’ve been told)
I have never been considered to be a Nazi, of course, I’m just a peon so it doesn’t matter I guess.


135 posted on 06/05/2016 5:03:50 PM PDT by depenzz ("The Patroits blood is the seed of Freedom's tree")
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To: depenzz

You are hardly a peon. It is one of the great stories of the American Revolution.


138 posted on 06/05/2016 5:14:58 PM PDT by Bogie (Just a coincidence?)
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To: depenzz

5,000 Hessians stayed on and became Americans after the Revolutionary War, Pennsylvania already being 1/3 German. Continental Congress considered offering them 50 acres if they would desert the Redcoat army but I don’t know if that went through.


146 posted on 06/05/2016 5:35:18 PM PDT by Pelham (Barack Obama. When being bad is not enough and only evil will do)
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