Francis Daniel Pastorius papers 0475 Finding aid prepared by Sarah Newhouse.
Last updated on November 09, 2018.
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
August 2011 Francis Daniel Pastorius papers
Table of Contents
Summary Information...... 3 Administrative Information...... 5 Related Materials...... 5 Controlled Access Headings...... 7 Bibliography...... 8 Collection Inventory...... 9
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Summary Information
Repository Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Creator Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719.
Title Francis Daniel Pastorius papers
Call number 0475
Date [inclusive] 1693-1719
Extent 0.4 linear feet (; 10 volumes, 1 folder)
Language English
Language of Materials note Items in this collection are mostly in English, but also include German, Latin, French, and Greek.
Mixed materials [Folder] 1
Mixed materials (00007846)1 [Volume]
Mixed materials (00007847)2 [Volume]
Mixed materials (00007848)3 [Volume]
Mixed materials (00007849)4 [Volume]
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Mixed materials (00007852)6 [Volume]
Mixed materials (00007853)7 [Volume]
Mixed materials (00007854)8 [Volume]
Mixed materials (00007855)9 [Volume]
Mixed materials (00007856)10 [Volume]
Abstract This collection contains the personal papers of Francis Daniel Pastorius, a German immigrant who founded the settlement of Germantown, which would later be incorporated into Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Pastorius was trained as a lawyer, and in 1683 purchased land in Pennsylvania on behalf of members of the German Frankfort Company. He is also known for his anti-slavery stance, joining the Pennsylvania Quakers in signing a protest against slavery in 1688 (the first anti-slavery document written in the United States). This collection dates from 1683-1719 and contains ten bound volumes and one folder of loose manuscripts of Pastorius’ personal papers. This includes his writings on farming and beekeeping, poetry, the beginnings of a German dictionary, a commonplace book, letters, and a book of medical ailments and remedies.
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Administrative Information
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
August 2011 Finding aid prepared by Sarah Newhouse.
Sponsor This collection was processed during the Digital Center for Americana Project Phase II, which was funded by grants from the National Endowment for the Humanities and the Richard Lounsbery Foundation.
Immediate Source of Acquisition note Purchased, Library Fund; some items presented by Harry C. Kessler, Charles M. Wayne, and others.
Related Materials
Related Archival Materials note At The Historical Society of Pennsylvania: Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) general court records (Am .371) Francis Daniel Pastorius records (Am .3714) Abraham H. Cassel collection (1610) Johannes Kelpius collection of hymns (Am .088) Germantown printer daybooks (Am .19904) Upper Germantown Burying Ground record book (Am .3707) Christian Lehman collection on Philadelphia colonial settlement (0362) John Fanning Watson collection on the cultural, social, and economic development of Pennsylvania (0697) Copy of Mathias Zimmerman plan of lots in Germantown and Cresheim townships (Am .3721 folio)
- Page 5 - Francis Daniel Pastorius papers William Penn Germantown Charter (Am .3038) Deliciae hortenses, or, Garden=recreations; and Voluptates apianae. By Francis Daniel Pastorius. (Vd .05 Sch413) Franz Daniel Pastorius Beschreibung von Pennsylvanien: Nachbildung der in Frankfurt a./M. im Jahre 1700 erschienenen Original-Ausgabe. By Francis Daniel Pastorius. (Vd .05) Manuscripts, 1683-1721. By Francis Daniel Pastorius. ((PHi)475) A new primmer, or, Methodical directions to attain the true spelling, reading & writing of English: whereunto are added, some things necessary & useful both for the youth of this province, and likewise for those, who from foreign countries and nations come settle amongst us. By Francis Daniel Pastorius. (Ra.13) Pastorius's description of Pennsylvania. 1700: a particular geographical description of the lately discovered province of Pennsylvania, situated on the frontiers of this western world, America. By Francis Daniel Pastorius. (Ta.107)
Umständige geographische beschreibung der zu allerletzt erfundenen provintz Pensylvania: in denen end-gräntzen America in der west-welt gelegen…. By Francis Daniel Pastorius. (Ra.13) At other institutions: Ein Send=Brieff offenhertziger liebsbezeugung an die so genannte Pietisten in Hoch=Teutschland: Amsterdam, Gedruckt vor Jacob Claus, 1697. By Francis Daniel Pastorius. At the Library Company in Philadelphia, Pa. (LCP Ac.9344) Henry Bernhard Koster, William Davis: Thomas Rutter & Thomas Bowyer, four boasting disputers of this world briefly rebuked, and answered according to their folly, which they themselves have manifested in a late pamphlet, entituled, Advice for all professors and writers. By Francis Daniel Pastorius. At the Library Company in Philadelphia, Pa. (LCP Ap.697 P 29) Kurtze geographische beschreibung der letztmahls erfundenen Americanischen landschafft Pensylvania, mit angehenckten einigen notablen begebenheiten und bericht-schreiben an dessen hrn. vattern, patrioten und gute freunde. By Francis Daniel Pastorius. At the Library Company in Philadelphia, Pa. (LCP Ap.692 P 293) Francis Daniel Pastorius, His Hive, Melliotrophium Alvear or, Rusca Apium, Begun Anno Do[mi]ni or, in the year of Christian Account 1696. At the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Ms. Codex 726). The young country clerk's collection of the best presidents of bills, bonds, conditions, aquittances, releases, indentures, deeds of sale, letters of attorney, last wills [and] testaments, [and etc]. With many other necessary and useful forms of such writings as are vulgarly in use between man and man: manuscript, [1692-1719] / by Francis Daniel Pastorius. At the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Ms. Codex 89). http://dla.library.upenn.edu/dla/medren/record.html? id=MEDREN_2706995&detail=brief Umständige geographische Beschreibung der zu allerletzt erfundenen Provintz Pensylvaniae, in denen end-gräntzen Americae in der West-Welt gelegen / durch Franciscum Danielem Pastorium ... Worbey
- Page 6 - Francis Daniel Pastorius papers angehencket sind einige notable Begebenheiten, und Bericht-Schreiben an dessen herzn Vattern Melchiorem Adamum Pastorium, und andere gute Freunde. At the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library (F152 .P27 2000). Literary and historical miscellany [manuscript]. At the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Ms. Codex 1151). Itinerarium et vitae curriculus, das ist seine völlige Reis-Beschreibunge und gantzer Lebenslauff, sampt einigen merckwürdigen Begebenheitten und Anzaigungen derer iedes orthsbefindlichen Raritäten [manuscript]. At the University of Pennsylvania Rare Book & Manuscript Library (Ms. Codex 1150). The German American Collection at the German Society of Philadelphia. http://www.germansociety.org/ OstoyichGuide.pdf
Controlled Access Headings
Corporate Name(s)
• Frankfort Land Company.
Form/Genre(s)
• Letters. • Poetry.
Geographic Name(s)
• Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.).
Personal Name(s)
• Carpenter, Samuel, 1649-1714. • Hill, Richard, 1673-1729. • Jennings, Samuel, d. 1708. • Kelpius, Johannes, 1673-1708. • Lloyd, Thomas, 1640-1694.
- Page 7 - Francis Daniel Pastorius papers • Logan, James, 1674-1751. • Norris, Isaac, 1671-1735. • Penn, William, 1644-1718. • Zachary, Lloyd, 1701-1756.
Subject(s)
• Agriculture--United States--Early works to 1800. • Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775. • Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.)--History--Sources. • Medicine--Early works to 1800.
Bibliography
Adam, Thomas, ed. Germany and the Americas: Culture, Politics, and History. Santa Barbara: ABC- CLIO, 2005. Lambert, Margo M. “Francis Daniel Pastorius: An American in Early Pennsylvania, 1683-1719.” Dissertation, Georgetown University. 2007. Learned, Marion Dexter. The Life of Francis Daniel Pastorius, the Founder of Germantown. Philadelphia: William J. Campbell, 1908. Roach, Hannah Benner. Colonial Philadelphians. Philadelphia: Genealogical Society of Pennsylvania, 1999. Weigley, Russell F., ed. Philadelphia: A 300-Year History. New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 1982.
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Collection Inventory
Volume
Res propriae, 1683-1716. 1 item. 1
Manuscripts, 1683-1714, 1721. 17 items. 2
Artzney und Kunst: ist all umsunst ohne Gottes Gunst, 1695. 1 item. 3
Liber intimissimus omnium semper mecum (Most intimate book of all [which is] always 4 with me), by Melchior Adam Pastorius, 1697-1701. 1 item.
Letter book, 1700-1719. 1 item. 5
Letter book: Photostat copy, 1700-1719. 1 item. 6
"A monthly monitor briefly showing when our works ought to be done in gardens, 7 orchards, vineyards, fields, meadows, and woods", 1701. 1 item.
"Ship-mate-ship", 1716-1719. 1 item. 8
"Alvearialia", undated. 1 item. 9
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Commonplace book, undated. 1 item. 10
" Lex Pennsylvaniensis in compendium redacta: h.e. The Great Law of Pennsylvania 11 abridged for the particular use of Francis Daniel Pastorius", undated. 1 item.
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