[alexander_busek]

I take it that the familiar expression "Pennsylvania Dutch" is actually a corruption of "Deutsch," and thus that many people who are proud of their Dutch ancestry are, in actual fact, of German extraction.

Regards,

[FoxPro]

ping

[fieldmarshaldj]

*ping*

[Tennessee Nana]

My ancestors were Palatine Germans to Albany, NY, 1710...

Queen Anne sent 3,000 of them on to America from London where 10,00 of they were camped out in the parks etc...

Some went to Ireland, Canada etc...

The ones who came here were to cut down trees and produce tar and pitch to seal the wooden warships of the English Navy...

However NY was to cold to grow the trees needed...they were down in the Carolinas...

Having little to do and being from farming communities back in Germany...

Several families moved west across the Hudson to Middleburg to farm...(mine did that)

and others went south to Pennsylvania...

Many of the original “Pennsylvania Dutch” were from the Palatines...

[Ditter]

Very nice. I wish I knew when my ancestors arrived on American shores. They were all in Texas by the early 1800’s after making the wagon trek across the US. People like that don't leave many tracks except wagon track in the mud.

[mountainlion]

I liked the “loophole”= Gun port

[VeniVidiVici]

Jay, in researching early settlements in VA I come across references to a “Manor House”. I understand it’s not a reference to a single particular structure as I’ve seen references to a “Manor House” in several communities.

So how does a structure come to be known as a “Manor House”?