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Francis Daniel Pastorius papers

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Held at: Historical Society of Pennsylvania [Contact Us]1300 Locust Street, Philadelphia, PA, 19107

This is a finding aid. It is a description of archival material held at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania. Unless otherwise noted, the materials described below are physically available in their reading room, and not digitally available through the web.

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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.

Purchased, Library Fund; some items presented by Harry C. Kessler, Charles M. Wayne, and others.

Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Finding Aid Author
Finding aid prepared by Sarah Newhouse
Finding Aid Date
August 2011
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.

Collection Inventory

Res propriae, 1683-1716. 1 item.
Volume 1
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1.0 item

Manuscripts, 1683-1714, 1721. 17 items.
Volume 2
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17.0 items

Artzney und Kunst: ist all umsunst ohne Gottes Gunst, 1695. 1 item.
Volume 3
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1.0 item

Liber intimissimus omnium semper mecum (Most intimate book of all [which is] always with me), by Melchior Adam Pastorius, 1697-1701. 1 item.
Volume 4
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1.0 item

Letter book, 1700-1719. 1 item.
Volume 5
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1.0 item

Letter book: Photostat copy, 1700-1719. 1 item.
Volume 6
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1.0 item

"A monthly monitor briefly showing when our works ought to be done in gardens, orchards, vineyards, fields, meadows, and woods", 1701. 1 item.
Volume 7
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1.0 item

"Ship-mate-ship", 1716-1719. 1 item.
Volume 8
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1.0 item

"Alvearialia", undated. 1 item.
Volume 9
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1.0 item

Commonplace book, undated. 1 item.
Volume 10
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1.0 item

" Lex Pennsylvaniensis in compendium redacta: h.e. The Great Law of Pennsylvania abridged for the particular use of Francis Daniel Pastorius", undated. 1 item.
Volume 11
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1.0 item

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