Progressive Pennsylvania; a record of the remarkable industrial development of the Keystone state, with some account of its early and its later transportation systems, its early settlers, and its prominent men . sylvania Dutchdialect spoken in many Pennsylvania counties. There areto-day hundreds of communities in Pennsylvania in whichthis dialect is habitually spoken to the exclusion of Eng-lish. It is really a corruption of the original Piatt-Deutsch,as it contains many English words and some words ofFrench and other origin. Very little Pennsylvania Dutchliterature is now published, although
Progressive Pennsylvania; a record of the remarkable industrial development of the Keystone state, with some account of its early and its later transportation systems, its early settlers, and its prominent men . sylvania Dutchdialect spoken in many Pennsylvania counties. There areto-day hundreds of communities in Pennsylvania in whichthis dialect is habitually spoken to the exclusion of Eng-lish. It is really a corruption of the original Piatt-Deutsch,as it contains many English words and some words ofFrench and other origin. Very little Pennsylvania Dutchliterature is now published, although a generation ortwo ago some notable publications in Pennsylvania wereprinted in this dialect, and a few columns in countrynewspapers are still so printed. The pamphlet laws ofPennsylvania were once printed in German for the useof justices of the peace and other officials whose mothertongue was Pennsylvania Dutch. The people called Penn-sylvania Dutch and the dialect they speak are not, how-ever, confined to Pennsylvania. This State has sent manythousands of its Mennonites and Dunkards to Maryland,Virginia, Ohio, Indiana, and Iowa, and they have takentheir South German dialect with them and held on to REDEMPTIONERS AND OTHER BONDED SERVANTS. 43 CHAPTER IV. REDEMPTIONERS AND OTHER BONDED SERVANTS. There were two classes of white bonded servantswho came to Pennsylvania and other colonies, and toPennsylvania down to the first decades of the nineteenthcentury,—redemptioners and indentured servants. Thefirst class, by far the most numerous, was chiefly com-posed of Protestant emigrants from Germany and otherEuropean countries who were glad to escape from religi-ous persecution or unfavorable social conditions but whowere too poor to pay their passage across the ocean, andhence agreed with the masters of the vessels in which theysailed or with speculators, sometimes called Newlanders,that their personal services were to be sold at the end ofthe voyage for such periods as would
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