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Excerpt from Pennsylvania: Colony and Commonwealth In the previous volume, "The Making of Pennsylvania," a full account was given of the numerous nationalities and religions which made up the population of the province. The Dutch, Swedes, English, Germans, Welsh, and Scotch-Irish, together with their different religions, Quaker, Lutheran, Reformed, Episcopalian, Tunker, Mennonite, Schwenkfelder, Moravian, and Presbyterian, were each considered in detail, and there was also a chapter on the Connecticut Invasion, which introduced a New England element into the population. This discussion was necessary to an intelligent understanding of the history of the State, not only because it showed of what sort of people we were composed, but because many of these divisions, especially the Germans, Scotch-Irish, and Connecticut people, lived an isolated life, forming almost distinct colonies of their own; and in any truthful history of the State it is necessary that this should clearly appear. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.