Most of the English Colonies in America were founded by people of pure Anglo-Saxon stock, and each colony had usually a religion of its own, with comparatively little intermixture of other faiths. Virginia and the New England colonies were particularly pure in their people and religion, and the history of each of them is the simple story of a people of one language, nation, and religion, thoroughly homogenous, and always acting as a unit. But Pennsylvania was altogether different, and no other colony had such a mixture of languages and nationalities, and religions. Dutch, Swedes, English, Germans, Scotch-Irish, Welsh; Quakers, Presbyterians, Episcopalians, Lutherans, Reformed, Mennonites, Tunkers, and Moravians all had a share in creating it. . . . Many of these divisions led a more or less distinct life of their own in colonial times, some of them wishing to found a colony for themselves within the province; and they all acted and reacted on each other, changed sides in politics, and produced movements and counter-currents which make the history of the State extremely varied and interesting, and at the same time rather difficult to trace. The present volume deals with each of these divisions in detail, describes their motives and characteristics, and shows, with more or less completeness, the part each played in making the State. Keywords: The Making of Pennsylvania, Sydney George Fisher, Mixture of Languages, Connecticut Invades Pennsylvania, Pennamite War, Anglo-Saxon, Quaker,

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