These include Amish ; Old Order, Conservative, Conservative Mennonites, and Old Colony Mennonites ; Old German Baptist Brethren ; the Hutterites ; and Old Order River Brethren ; and at one time Quakers, the Brethren in Christ ( BIC ), and Shakers, Dunkards.

In the United States they became popularly known as Dunkers, Dunkards or Tunkers, corruptions of the German verb tunken, to dip.

He had German, Scots-Irish, and English ancestry, and was the seventh of nine children born to Cynthia Ann ( née Stanton ) and Benjamin Ward Baum, only five of whom survived into adulthood.

Distilling probably arrived in what would later become known as Kentucky when Scottish, Scots-Irish, and other settlers ( including, English, Irish, Welsh, German and French ) began to farm the area in earnest in the late 18th century.

The traders and British government agents dealing with the Southern tribes in general and the Cherokee in particular were nearly all of Scottish extraction, especially from the Highlands, though a few were Scots-Irish, English, French, even German ( see Scottish Indian trade ).

As it filled with Lutheran German immigrants, Houston decided to move his family with other Scots-Irish who were migrating to lands in the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia.

She is of Scots-Irish, English, and German descent.

English ( 16. 3 %), Irish ( 13. 3 %), " American " ( mostly English and Scots-Irish ) ( 11. 5 %), German ( 11. 0 %), Italian ( 4. 2 %), Scots-Irish ( 4. 2 %) and Scottish ( 3. 9 %).

English Anglicans, Scots-Irish Presbyterians, freed African slaves, German Lutherans, and descendants of French Huguenots came to outnumber the first Quaker settlers within a generation.

This combination of events directly precipitated an inrush of settlers from Pennsylvania and New York, made up of a blend of Quakers and various German and Scots-Irish homesteaders, many of them new immigrants.

The first German settler appears to have been Jost Hite in 1732, who brought ten other families, including some Scots-Irish.

The largest ancestry groups in Lee County include: English ( 14 %), Irish ( 11 %), German ( 9 %), and Scots-Irish ( 3 %).

The largest ancestry groups in Williamson County are English American ( 19. 5 %), German American ( 16. 6 %), Irish American ( 15. 2 %), African American ( 5 %), Scottish American ( 4 %) and Scots-Irish American ( 4 %).

According to the 2000 Census the largest ancestry groups in Anderson County were English ( 37 %), Irish ( 14. 7 %), German ( 13. 5 %), Scots-Irish ( 4. 5 %) and Scottish ( 3. 1 %).

16. 3 % were of American, 8. 0 % Irish, 7. 6 % Scots-Irish, 6. 9 % German and 6. 6 % English ancestry according to Census 2000.

European-American settlement, by immigrants of Scots, Scots-Irish, English, French Huguenot, and German ancestry, did not take place until the mid-17th through 19th centuries.

18. 5 % were of American, 13. 7 % English, 11. 3 % Irish, 10. 5 % German and 9. 2 % Scots-Irish ancestry according to Census 2000.

30. 8 % were of American, 12. 9 % English, 12. 0 % German, 10. 4 % Irish and 8. 3 % Scots-Irish ancestry according to Census 2000.

27. 6 % were of American, 15. 1 % Irish, 12. 7 % English, 10. 6 % German and 5. 1 % Scots-Irish ancestry according to Census 2000.

Most residents of Cabarrus County are Caucasian of Scots-Irish, German, or English-Welsh extraction.

The western Piedmont was settled by many Scots-Irish and German immigrants in the mid-to-late 18th century.

The largest ancestry groups in Webster County include African ( 21 %), English ( 19 %), Irish ( 15 %), German ( 4 %) and Scots-Irish ( 2 %)

The largest European ancestry groups in Dougherty County are English ( 6. 6 %), Irish ( 6. 5 %), " American " ( mostly English and Scots-Irish )( 5. 6 %), German ( 4. 5 %) and Scots-Irish ( 1. 6 %).

According to the 2000 Census, the largest ancestry groups in Brantley County, were English ( 48. 3 %), Scots-Irish ( 12. 1 %) and German ( 5. 5 %).

Siloam Springs ' first settlers were of German and Scots-Irish origin.

Settlers to these colonies included Anglicans, Dutch Calvinists, English Puritans, English Catholics, Scottish Presbyterians, French Huguenots, German and Swedish Lutherans, as well as Quakers, Mennonites, Amish, Moravians and Jews of various nationalities.

These first settlers included German Reformed and Lutherans in the east, British Quakers in the south and west, and Scotch-Irish Presbyterians in the center of today's Guilford County.

The earliest settlers were mainly German Lutherans, German Reformed and Scotch or Scotch Irish Presbyterians who began settling in Cabarrus County in the 1750s.

In 1753, Scots-Irish Presbyterians and German Lutherans, who originally settled in Pennsylvania, began arriving in Statesville to plant crops in the fertile soil where game and water were also plentiful.

The first settlers were Scots-Irish Presbyterians and German Protestants came soon afterward.

Not long afterwards local Evangelical Lutheran and German Reformed congregations joined the Presbyterians in the erection of a church building, which the three congregations shared from 1829 until 1854.

Baptists, German Lutherans and Presbyterians, funded their own ministers, and favored disestablishment of the Anglican church.

Baptists, German Lutherans and Presbyterians, funded their own ministers, and favored disestablishment of the Anglican church.

`` Even when the islands were under German mandate before World War 1,, Europeans gave Eromonga a wide berth.

But both were high-spirited and vivacious, both had tempers to control, both loved languages, especially English and German, both were good teachers and wrote for publication.

He spoke no German but he could sing it and the words of the song were the only ones he knew in a foreign language.

This leader must be a man who lives above illusions that heretofore have shaped the foreign policy of the United States, namely that Russia will agree to a reunited Germany, that the East German government does not exist, that events in Japan in June 1960 were Communist-inspired, that the true government of China is in Formosa, that Mao was the evil influence behind Khrushchev at the Summit Conference in Paris in May 1960, and that either China or Russia wants or expects war.

In German, words starting with sch-( constituting the German phoneme ) would be intercalated between words with initial sca-and sci-( all incidentally loanwords ) instead of this graphic cluster appearing after the letter s, as though it were a single letter — a lexicographical policy which would be de rigueur in a dictionary of Albanian, i. e. dh -, ë -, gj -, ll -, rr -, th -, xh-and zh-( all representing phonemes and considered separate single letters ) would follow the letters d, e, g, l, n, r, t, x and z respectively.

German words with umlaut would further be alphabetized as if there were no umlaut at all — contrary to Turkish which allegedly adopted the German graphemes ö and ü, and where a word like tüfek, " gun ", would come after tuz, " salt ", in the dictionary.

Nearly 3, 700 Allied ships were sunk at a cost of 783 German U-boats.

Now prosperous, his parents were able to send Nobel to private tutors and the boy excelled in his studies, particularly in chemistry and languages, achieving fluency in English, French, German, and Russian.

Compositae were first described in 1792 by the German botanist Paul Dietrich Giseke.

The French were hopeless disciplinarians .. Germans good and methodical, but it was not German that I really wanted Rosalind to learn.

In contrast, in the Arian German kingdoms established on the wreckage of the Western Roman Empire in the 5th century, there were entirely separate Arian and Nicene Churches with parallel hierarchies, each serving different sets of believers.

Alcott also wrote a series patterned after the work of German writer Johann Wolfgang von Goethe which were eventually published in the Transcendentalists ' journal, The Dial.

They launched a major invasion of Gaul and northern Italy in 268, when the Romans were forced to denude much of their German frontier of troops in response to a massive invasion of the Goths from the east.

* 1944 – Nazi German troops end the week-long Wola massacre, during which time at least 40, 000 people were killed indiscriminately or in mass executions.

As the German princes were experiencing the tumult of the Reformation, the German Peasants ' War, and the wars against the Ottoman Turks, they did not enforce the ban on the duke, and agitation against him soon died away.

He added a pulpit " in German style " of bronze, gold and silver, surmounted by an arch with a rood cross in the same materials ; these were examples of the lavish decorations added to important churches in the years before the conquest.

These were differently sized in different countries, for instance, the historical French acre was 4, 221 square metres, whereas in Germany as many variants of " acre " existed as there were German states.

In 1994, Commodore filed for bankruptcy and its assets were purchased by Escom, a German PC manufacturer, who created the subsidiary company Amiga Technologies.

Auschwitz had for a long time been a German name for Oświęcim, the town by and around which the camps were located ; the name " Auschwitz " was made the official name again by the Germans after they invaded Poland in September 1939.

This Doric limestone building, from which many relics survive, is referred to as the hekatompedon ( Greek for " hundred – footed "), Ur-Parthenon ( German for " primitive Parthenon "), H – Architecture or Bluebeard temple, after the pedimental three-bodied man-serpent sculpture, whose beards were painted dark blue.