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