1792 J. Wadsworth Let. to Robert Morris 12 Oct. (Robert Morris papers, Huntington Libr.) Those who have come, are highly pleased with our lands in general; but with our white oak & walnut Lands they are charmed; constantly comparing them with the lands in Lancaster, which appears to be the Domain of a Pensylvania Dutchman.

a1824 J. Guild in Proc. Vermont Hist. Soc. (1937) 5 293 I came across a Pennsylvania Dutch man, and I made a bargain with him.

1882 P. H. Gibbons Pennsylvania Dutch (ed. 3) 401 A ‘Pennsylvania Dutch’ remedy for whooping-cough.

1910 Encycl. Brit. I. 840/1 Popular success..was won by Charles Godfrey Leland..in..humorous poems in the Pennsylvania Dutch dialect.

1923 Ladies' Home Jrnl. Mar. 133/1 A demure little Mennonite maid..will invite you cordially to ‘sit up’ to a table arrayed with the wealth of cup cheese and pot cheese and sugar cakes and sauerbraten and noodles and all the rest of the savory dainties..on the menu of a Pennsylvania Dutch family.

1948 W. Stevens Let. 1 Dec. (1967) 624 A true Pennsylvania Dutchman.

1976 New Yorker 16 Feb. 58/2 The sort of packaging that makes pancake-mix pancakes served in a Pennsylvania hotel ‘Pennsylvania Dutch pancakes’ instead of just pancakes.

2002 Mother Earth News (Nexis) 1 Apr. 101 Then an old Pennsylvania-Dutchman, who probably bought it [sc. a 1946 Ford tractor] new when Truman was president, traded it in on a new Kubota.

1831 Canad. Freeman (Toronto) 19 May 2/3 Let Mackenzie stick to the Central Committee, the Saddlebags, & the Pennsylvania Dutch of the Home District.

1868 H. W. Beecher Norwood 468 Them Pennsylvania Dutch think more of their horses than they do of themselves.

1889 J. S. Farmer Americanisms at Bug-juice The Schlechter whiskey of the Pennsylvania Dutch—a very inferior spirit.

1910 Harper's Mag. Aug. 473/1 Those strange people, the Pennsylvania Dutch,..have kept themselves alien amidst the other Americans.

1976 R. Condon Whisper of Axe i. xvii. 103 He was served schnitz un knepp: apples, dumplings, and ham from the Pennsylvania Dutch.

1994 S. Romaine Lang. in Society ii. 48 The Pennsylvania Dutch use electricity for pasteurization of milk, as required by law, but they are not allowed to have it in their homes for refrigeration or for use with farm machinery.

1848 J. J. Oswandel Notes Mexican War 22 July (1885) 610 I noticed the farmers paid close attention to what our officers said, and their whole conversation and remarks (in Pennsylvania Dutch) were ‘may God forever bless these gallant soldiers.’

1872 S. S. Haldeman (title) Pennsylvania Dutch: a dialect of South German with an infusion of English.

1955 F. G. Ashbrook Butchering Pref. p. v Making sausage, headcheese, scrapple (ponhaws in Pennsylvania Dutch), and other meat concoctions.

1974 ‘E. McGirr’ Murderous Journey 98 He lapsed into Pennsylvania Dutch. The quaint idioms and all.

2002 N.Y. Times 26 May ii. 18/1 The Anabaptist faith practised by the Amish includes the belief that only adults who have made a conscious choice to join the church should be baptized... The result is rumspringa—‘running around’ in Pennsylvania Dutch.