... in hope to end British taxes, and second to help a neighboring colony, in need of relief. A significant contributor to identifying America's identity was John Dickinson and his Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania.(DOC H) He states, "What then is the American, this new man? He is either an European, or ... out to you a family whose grandfather was an Englishman, whose wife was Dutch, whose son married a French woman. He is an American." In Dickinson's eyes all colonists are American, no matter what ethnicity, nationality or religion they are, for they"re all a mixture of everything and ...

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