Francis Daniel Pastorius
Francis Daniel Pastorius | |
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Bas-relief impression of Francis Daniel Pastorius, c. 1897 | |
| Born | Franz Daniel Pastorius September 26, 1651 |
| Died | c.1720 (aged 68–69) Germantown, Province of Pennsylvania, British America |
| Occupation(s) | lawyer, poet, scholar, schoolteacher, abolitionist, founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania |
| Spouse |
Ennecke Klostermanns (1658–1723)
(m. 1688) |
Francis Daniel Pastorius (September 26, 1651—c. 1720: xii, 286 ) 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 emigrants from Germany.