Francis daniel pastorius biography of abraham

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Repository

The Historical Society of Pennsylvania

Creator - Author

Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719.

Title

Francis Daniel Pastorius papers

ID

0475

Date [inclusive]

1683-1719

Extent

0.4 Linear feet ; 10 volumes, 1 folder

Author

Finding aid prepared by Sarah Newhouse

Sponsor

This collection was processed during the Digital Center for Americana planerat arbete Phase II, which was funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Richard Lounsbery Foundation.

Language

English

Language of Materials note

Items in this collection are mostly in English, but also include German, Latin, French, and Greek.

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Eastward Ho! The English Bible of Germantown’s Founder Returns to Philadelphia

Last April, a woman called the Penn Libraries from California saying she had in her possession an English Bible that had belonged to Francis Daniel Pastorius (1651-1720). Pastorius is credited with being the founder, in 1683, of Germantown (now part of Philadelphia), which became the new home for thirteen Quaker and Mennonite families who emigrated from Krefeld, Germany in search of religious freedom and economic opportunity. Pastorius also drafted and signed, with three other Quakers, on behalf of the Germantown Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends, the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery, the first protest against African-American slavery made by a religious body in the English colonies. The original 1688 Petition is now held by Haverford College and can be viewed on their website.

Pastorius was one of the few intellectuals in the Philadelphia region at this time, with a subs

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Francis Daniel Pastorius

German-born American educator, lawyer, poet, and public official

For American politician that is his descendant, see Francis D. Pastorius.

Francis Daniel Pastorius
Bas-relief impression of Francis Daniel Pastorius, c. 1897
Born	Franz Daniel Pastorius (1651-09-26)September 26, 1651 Sommerhausen, Franconian Circle, Holy Roman Empire
Died	c.1720 (aged 68–69) Germantown, Province of Pennsylvania, British America
Occupation(s)	lawyer, poet, scholar, schoolteacher, abolitionist, founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania
Spouse	Ennecke Klostermanns (1658–1723) ​ ​ (m. 1688)​

Francis Daniel Pastorius (September 26, 1651—c. 1720^{[1]: xii, 286}) was a German-born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official. He was the founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, now part of Philadelphia, the first permanent German-American settlement and the gatewa