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    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...
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    named by Admiral Wilhelm Canaris, chief of the German Abwehr, for Francis Daniel Pastorius, the organizer of the first organized settlement of Germans in...
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    he was eight. Early American abolitionist Francis Daniel Pastorius is his ancestor. The origins of Pastorius' nickname, "Jaco", is disputed. There is an...
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  • Pastorius may refer to: Francis Daniel Pastorius (1651–c. 1720), leader of the first organized settlement of Germans in Pennsylvania Francis D. Pastorius...
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  • Francis Daniel Pastorius, V (October 4, 1920 – April 10, 1962) was a Philadelphia attorney and Republican politician. Pastorius was born in Scranton,...
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    them was Francis Daniel Pastorius, a young German born near Würzburg to a family of elite officeholders. After training as an attorney, Pastorius sought...
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    Confederacy. The town was named Germantown by the group's leader Franz Pastorius, a German preacher from Sommerhausen. In 1688, five years after its founding...
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    years after their arrive, Abraham along with his brother Derick, Francis Daniel Pastorius and Gerrit Hendricksz signed the first organized religious petition...
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    William Jackson Palmer, founder of Colorado Springs, Colorado Francis Daniel Pastorius, leader of the Germantown settlement James DeWolf Perry, Presiding...
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    slavery in America, led by Francis Daniel Pastorius and Abraham op den Graeff, founders of Germantown, Pennsylvania. Pastorius, Op den Graeff, his brother...
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