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Pastorius, Francis Daniel

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Pastorius, Francis Daniel (c. 1651–c. 1720)

German lawyer. In 1683, acting as agent for a group of German Quakers, he journeyed to Philadelphia, bought 15,000 acres from Penn, and laid out the settlement of Germantown. He was the first mayor of the new town and master of the Germantown school 1702–19. In 1688 he signed the first antislavery petition to circulate in the English colonies.

Pastorius was born in Sommerhausen, Germany. He studied at several European universities and practiced law in Frankfurt, Germany, where he met friends of the English Quaker William Penn.



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