ONE More? Mr. Ben Franklin became alarmed since so MANY Germany,s were arriving in the state of Penna. that he had said that he was afraid the state would become German. I do believe it was his idea to have Those males either sign on the 'dotted line THREE times or ( or an X) else entered as the German name "sounded" to the English clerk. Hence off time,s, one will find the immigrant,s name not only spelled incorrectly once, but by all Three Clerk,s as it happened to my Nicholas Weinhold, and thus entered into THE record as such, back in 1738, in the Port of Phila., PA. Ernest