Not to take away from the Dutch settlers [I am descended from some of them], but they had a small colony in New Amsterdam. The vast majority of the colonies were English. Nancy ------- I was never lost, but I was bewildered once for three days. --Daniel Boone On Jan 26, 2008, at 9:30 PM, mvicareo@aol.com wrote: > > I was not surprised that the Declaration of Independence was > printed in German. If the established language of this country was > established at the time it should have been I ren=member hearing > that iy would have been "German." People forget that The Dutch were > early settlers to this country. > Maria > > > > > > > >