Tolerance for German in early America

[rkephart at unf.edu]

Quoting haroldfs at ccat.sas.upenn.edu:

> 
> The other day I mentioned that Benjamin Franklin published a German edition
> of his English newspaper...


Where I grew up in Washington County, Maryland, there are old tombstones from 
that period that are inscribed in German: "Hier lagt..." And there are 
zillions of German names in the phonebook, including mine. My own ancestors 
were Swiss Germans who came over in the 18th century; they're listed in the 
1790 census.

Ron
(Writing from Carriacou, Grenada)