From: Adam 

Gary Wiltshire wrote:
> On Mon, 13 Mar 2006 08:19:30 -0500, Phil Payne
>  wrote:
>
>>> Far less than HALF of them were of English extraction EVEN AT THE TIME.
>>> Franklin was even concerned our national language would end up being
>>> German.
>>
>> Complete bollocks: http://www.serve.com/shea/germusa/dtinusa.htm
>>
>>
>
> As usual, your url doesn't contradict what I said about Franklin nor the
> fact that the colonists were already less than fifty percent of English
> extraction.
>
> --Gary Wiltshire

It's got F*ck all to do with the "colonists" & everything to
do with the small self-selected group who wrote & signed the documents
in question.

Adam

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