In the seventeenth century, people living in the low countries were called Nederduits or Nederduitsche (low German). English sailors being the excellent linguists they are got the pronunciation wrong...
It depends on whether your father has Dutch citizenship at the time of your birth, and whether or not he acknowledged you as his child while you were still in utero. For more info you can visit...
They were German immigrants the term is really Deutsch for German. I understand that the German immigrants that left Germany in the 17th century seeking religious freedom, settled in Pennsylvania and...