To: jay1949
Correct. The term "Dutch" in this context does not refer to persons from the Netherlands, but to western German folk.Which is why The Lost Dutchman's Mine in Arizona is really the "Lost German's Mine."
My ancestors too, settled in North Carolina in 1750 after leaving Pennsylvania with the Boone family and stayed there till they were run out by the Cherokee in 1763.
17 posted on
03/27/2010 7:33:40 AM PDT by
Inyo-Mono
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To: Inyo-Mono
I'll bet they intermarried with or at least lived in the proximity of some Scotch Irish or Scots while they were in NC. ". . . stayed there till they were run out . . . " The use of "till" in this manner is a characteristic of Scottish English which was imported into Appalachian English.
19 posted on
03/27/2010 7:37:24 AM PDT by
jay1949
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