Julie,
Many people are unaware that Pennsylvania Dutch are not from Holland. My
mother had told me she was of Dutch, German and Irish descent. I have yet
to find any Dutchman in our ancestry. I copied the following from this Web
Site:
www.kerchner.com/padutch.htm
and there is much more explaining how the "Deutsch" became "Dutch" to
English speaking people. Many of these people migrated to other states and
regions.
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'PA DUTCH GERMAN PENNSYLVANIA DEUTSCH HERITAGE ROOTS NAMES
From the Oxford English Dictionary, second edition, the phrase Pennsylvania
Dutch is defined as follows: "The descendants of the original German
settlers in Pennsylvania."
The people known as the Pennsylvania Dutch, often falsely depicted in travel
advertisements by the tourist industry with images of a little Holland Dutch
girl with wooden shoes, are not Dutch, but are of German and German speaking
heritage, They are the descendants of the early German speaking settlers of
the inland counties of Pennsylvania who arrived in Pennsylvania prior to the
Revolutionary War and the War of 1812. Large scale immigration to
Pennsylvania and the other rebelling colonies was for the most part stopped
by the British just prior to the start of the Revolutionary War and was much
restricted after that war ended by continuing British interference in the
new country's trade and affairs until after the War of 1812. By far, most
were German. But if not specifically German, they were more likely to be
German speaking Swiss or German speaking refugee French Huguenots, rather
than Holland Dutch. These early German speaking settlers of Pennsylvania
formed a culturally unique people and are more correctly described as the
Pennsylvania Germans.'
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Joy
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----- Original Message -----
From: "Julie Goldsworth" <julie(a)taubenpost.com>
To: <CANNON-L(a)rootsweb.com>
Sent: Tuesday, January 24, 2006 11:17 AM
Subject: [CANNON] Mary Cannon
So...Was Mary Cannon in your database?
This is what I sent to Dick Cannon. I haven't heard back, so I guess
she wasn't in his tree. Does she match anyone else's data?
Thanks!
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Mary Cannon was born 1791 in Kentucky, but somehow she was Pennsylvania
Dutch. This was from a Smyser Family History published in 1939.
According to her death certificate, her father was W. Cannon and her
mother was Sarah Cannon.
She married Mr. _____ Goldsworth and gave birth to James Goldsworth in
1811 in Hamilton County, Ohio. Mr. Goldsworth died in a boat accident.
On October 8, 1815 she married Phillip Smyser in Clermont County, Ohio.
(She is listed in the marriage records as Polly Goldsworth)
After her husband died in 1837, she lived with son James and his wife,
also a Mary, in Clermont County, Ohio until her death August 15, 1868.
If she was Pennsylvania Dutch, I'm not so sure the born in Kentucky fact
is correct.
Does this Mary match any of yours?
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