then already current Germanic-origins myth in respect of the settlers of Lancaster County. Gibbons remarked that these so-called Germans were not Germans, but Swiss, even though in old patents they are desig- nated as "Palatines" or "Palatinates." Penn's officials were either careless or woefully

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