>From the Library of Congress website 1790 - By this date as many as 100,000 Germans may have immigrated to America; they and their descendants made up an estimated 8.6 percent of the population of the United States; in Pennsylvania they accounted for 33 percent of the population; in Maryland for 12 percent. Many of them were religious objectors, ie Mennonites, Amish offered refuge by William Penn. Devon
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