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    Francis Daniel Pastorius (September 26, 1651—c. 1720: xii, 286 ) was a German-born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official. He was the founder of Germantown...
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    named by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the German Abwehr, for Francis Daniel Pastorius, the organizer of the first organized settlement of Germans in...
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    he was eight. Early American abolitionist Francis Daniel Pastorius is his ancestor. The origins of Pastorius' nickname, "Jaco", is disputed. There is an...
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  • Pastorius may refer to: Francis Daniel Pastorius (1651–c. 1720), leader of the first organized settlement of Germans in Pennsylvania Francis D. Pastorius...
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  • Francis Daniel Pastorius, V (October 4, 1920 – April 10, 1962) was a Philadelphia attorney and Republican politician. Pastorius was born in Scranton,...
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    them was Francis Daniel Pastorius, a young German born near Würzburg to a family of elite officeholders. After training as an attorney, Pastorius sought...
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    Confederacy. The town was named Germantown by the group's leader Franz Pastorius, a German preacher from Sommerhausen. In 1688, five years after its founding...
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    years after their arrive, Abraham along with his brother Derick, Francis Daniel Pastorius and Gerrit Hendricksz signed the first organized religious petition...
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    William Jackson Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs, Colorado Francis Daniel Pastorius, leader of the Germantown settlement James DeWolf Perry, Presiding...
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    slavery in America, led by Francis Daniel Pastorius and Abraham op den Graeff, founders of Germantown, Pennsylvania. Pastorius, Op den Graeff, his brother...
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    Marion F. (1908). The Life of Francis Daniel Pastorius. Philadelphia: W. J. Campbell. p. 1. Retrieved 2007-09-28. pastorius. and another account that appears...
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    Mennonites, but also Quakers. This group of Mennonites was organized by Francis Daniel Pastorius, an agent for a land purchasing company based in Frankfurt am Main...
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    members of that early group of Mennonites and Mennonite-Quaker, Francis Daniel Pastorius, Abraham op den Graeff, Derick op den Graeff (both cousins to William...
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    denounced it in 1688. In that year, four German settlers (the Lutheran Francis Daniel Pastorius and the three Quakers, the brothers Derick and Abraham op den Graeff...
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    village of Chestnut Hill was part of the German Township laid out by Francis Daniel Pastorius and came to include the settlements originally known as Sommerhausen...
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    Chestnut Hill, which was part of the German Township laid out by Francis Daniel Pastorius and came to include the settlements originally known as Sommerhausen...
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  • colony of Germantown, Pennsylvania, founded by Mennonite preacher Francis Daniel Pastorius, to serve as a teacher and a preacher. Šaroši apparently returned...
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    themselves from slavery. Four of them signed a document written by Francis Daniel Pastorius that stated, "To bring men hither, or to rob and sell them against...
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    Germantown, Pennsylvania. Other residents of importance where Francis Daniel Pastorius, Derick, Herman and Abraham op den Graeff. He was raised in a German-speaking...
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    year after their arrivel, Derick along with his brother Abraham, Francis Daniel Pastorius and Gerrit Hendricksz signed the first organized religious petition...
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  • 2014. "Francis Daniel Pastorius". Archived from the original on December 20, 2015. Retrieved November 8, 2015. "In 1683 Francis Daniel Pastorius was commissioned...
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  • World was drafted in Kunders's house. The protest, written by Francis Daniel Pastorius and signed also by Garrett Henrich, Abraham Up den Graef, and Derick...
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    Graeff brothers and also other important members of the settlement, Francis Daniel Pastorius and William Rittenhouse. Around 1691, the Quaker George Keith concluded...
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  • Grew, English plant anatomist and physiologist (d. 1712) 1651 – Francis Daniel Pastorius, founder of Germantown, Philadelphia (d. 1720) 1660 – George William...
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    1688 by the Religious Society of Friends. On 18 February 1688, Francis Daniel Pastorius, the brothers Derick and Abraham op den Graeff and Gerrit Hendricksz...
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    Madame de Beaumer, French editor and writer (d. 1766) January – Francis Daniel Pastorius, founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania (b. 1651) January 4 – Harry...
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    Martin Luther King Jr. ("The arc of the moral universe is long...") Francis Daniel Pastorius (German-American), signer of the first organized religious protest...
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    first openly denounced slavery in 1688, when four German Quakers, Francis Daniel Pastorius, Garret Hendericks, Derick op den Graeff and Abraham op den Graeff...
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    behind the Philadelphia Museum of Art, and the monument honoring Francis Daniel Pastorius and the first German settlers, in Vernon Park, Germantown. Birte...
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    Penn, in 1683 by Nederlanders and Germans under the leadership of Francis Daniel Pastorius fleeing religious persecution. Colonial Germantown was a leader...
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