Francis Daniel Pastorius
German lawyer and poet
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Francis Daniel Pastorius was a German-born educator, lawyer, poet, and public official. He was the founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, now part of Philadelphia, the first permanent German-American settlement and the gateway for subsequent... Wikipedia
Born: September 26, 1651, Sommerhausen, Germany
Died: January 1, 1720 (age 68 years), Germantown, Philadelphia, PA
Nationality: American and German
Books: Pastorius's description of Pennsylvania. 1700, Deliciae hortenses, or, Garden=recreations ; and Voluptates apianae, and Letters Relating to the Settlement of Germantown in Pennsylvania, 1683-4, from the Könneken Manuscript in the Ministerial-archiv of Lübeck, Reproduced in Fac-simile Under the Direction of Julius Friedrich Sachse ...