The first wave of German immigrants came in the 1600's and 1700's.

In Germany there was a man called Martin Luther, and he formed a new br

anch of the Christian Church. His followers were known as Lutherans. This sect was persecuted highly in Germany. About 150 years later in the 1680's a man known as William Penn traveled throughout Germany spreading word of a new colony called Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. There he promised freedom of religious worship and good farmland. Many Quaker Germans (who were also persecuted) and Lutherans accepted his offer and settled in Pennsylvania, New York and other northeastern states. The Pennsylvanian-Deutch colonies were successful, but their name was "Americanized" to "Pennsylvanian-Dutch." By the 1720's about 200,000 Germans lived in Pennsylvania alone. They moved on to found Baltimore, Maryland in 1729. Other towns in Maryland that were founded by Germans were Frederick and Hagerst

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