"We still speak the mother tongue!" The Pennsylvania Dutch are a group of ethnic Germans that settled in the USA in the 17th and 18th centuries. The Pennsylvania Dutch are composed of many smaller groups of different religious affiliations. They include: Lutheran, Reformed, Evangelical, Moravian, Church of the Brethren, Mennonite, Amish, Schwenkfelder, River Brethren, Yorker Brethren, and Urglaawe. The start of the Pennsylvania Dutch can be traced back to the 1683 founding of the Borough of Germantown in northwest Philadelphia County, Pennsylvania. At one point the Pennsylvania Dutch constituted over half of the population of Pennsylvania, and Pennsylvania Dutch was a dominate language there all the way until the second world war. The Pennsylvania Dutch were also big supporters of the American Revolution.
-Erik
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