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<p>[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 283961, member: 59"]Absolutely not "Amish" decoration - as Terry mentioned, clothing is totally wrong. And the Pennsylvania "Dutch" weren't Dutch at all. They were Germans or German-speaking Swiss. And included the Mennonites, a not quite so strict religious group, focused on Lancaster, PA (the heart of Penn Dutch country.)</p><p><br /></p><p>There were 2 large "Welsh Tracts" granted by William Penn to Welsh Baptist migrants early on - SE of Philadelphia into what became northern Delaware (the Pencader Hundred) and west out what is now called The Main Line - think Bryn Mawr. I do not know that they did this kind of decoration, though.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>
[QUOTE="Bakersgma, post: 283961, member: 59"]Absolutely not "Amish" decoration - as Terry mentioned, clothing is totally wrong. And the Pennsylvania "Dutch" weren't Dutch at all. They were Germans or German-speaking Swiss. And included the Mennonites, a not quite so strict religious group, focused on Lancaster, PA (the heart of Penn Dutch country.) There were 2 large "Welsh Tracts" granted by William Penn to Welsh Baptist migrants early on - SE of Philadelphia into what became northern Delaware (the Pencader Hundred) and west out what is now called The Main Line - think Bryn Mawr. I do not know that they did this kind of decoration, though.[/QUOTE]
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