Call Number:

SC.151

Repository:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College

Extent:

.1 linear ft. (.1 linear feet (15 folders.))

Language:

English

Preferred Citation:

Friends Historical Library of Swarthmore College, Francis Daniel Pastorius Frankfort Land Company Papers, 1683-1721, SC/151.

Date:

1683-1721 (inclusive)

Creator:

Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719

Abstract:

This collection includes photocopies of papers relating to Francis Daniel Pastorius in his role as agent for the Frankfort Land Company. In particular they refer to the legal dispute over the ownership of the land in 1708.

Francis Daniel Pastorius (1651-1719) was a German settler of Colonial Pennsylvania. As the agent for the Frankfort Land Company, he came to Philadelphia in 1683 to purchase land tracts for German settlers. This land was later known as Germantown. In 1708, John Henry Sprogel attempted to dispossess many of the German settlers. Pastorious settled the legal dispute in favor of the settlers.