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Francis Daniel Pastorius records

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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.

Overview and metadata sections

Call Number:
Am.3714
Repository:
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Extent:
1.6 linear feet (; 2 volumes)
Language:
German
Date:
1689-1910 (inclusive)
Creator:
Pastorius, Francis Daniel
Abstract:
This collection contains the Grund und Lager Buch begun by Francis Daniel Pastorius to document the founding of the Germantown area of Philadelphia and its settlement. This volume includes "Rules and regulations for settlers" (1689-1697) and a copy of the charter for Germantown granted to Pastorius. This collection also contains an English translation of the German and Latin entries in the Grund und Lager Buch made by Marion Dexter Learned for the Historical Society of Pennsylvania in 1910.

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.

At the Historical Society of Pennsylvania:

Germantown (Philadelphia, Pa.) general court records (Am .371) http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/g/GermantownCourtAm371.html

Francis Daniel Pastorius papers (0745) http://www2.hsp.org/collections/manuscripts/p/Pastorius0475.html

Germantown printer daybooks (Am .19904)

Upper Germantown Burying Ground record book (Am .3707)

Christian Lehman collection on Philadelphia colonial settlement (0362)

Copy of Mathias Zimmerman plan of lots in Germantown and Cresheim townships (Am .3721 folio)

William Penn Germantown Charter (Am .3038)

At other institutions:

The German American Collection at the German Society of Philadelphia. http://www.germansociety.org/OstoyichGuide.pdf

Collections at the Germantown Historical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. http://www.germantownhistory.org/library.htm

Subject

Publisher
Historical Society of Pennsylvania
Finding Aid Author
Finding aid prepared by Sarah Newhouse
Finding Aid Date
February 2012
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.
Access Restrictions

This collection is open for research.

Collection Inventory

Grund und Lager Buch, 1689-1707. 1 volume.
Volume 1
Physical Description

1.0 volume

Grund und Lager Buch: English translation by Marion Dexter Learned, 1910. 1 volume.
Volume 2
Physical Description

1.0 volume

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