The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . William 1644; d. 1718. Crefeld Colony 155 Laurentz and Abraham Hasevoet. This companysecured 15,000 acres of land in the new colony,and sent out Francis Daniel Pastorius as theiragent and attorney. The other company known as the Crefeld colony, was organized upon a differ-ent basis, the members pur-chasins; their land in anindividual, and
The Fatherland: (1450-1700) : showing the part it bore in the discovery, exploration and development of the western continent with special reference to the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania ; ptIof a narrative and critical history, prepared at the reque . William 1644; d. 1718. Crefeld Colony 155 Laurentz and Abraham Hasevoet. This companysecured 15,000 acres of land in the new colony,and sent out Francis Daniel Pastorius as theiragent and attorney. The other company known as the Crefeld colony, was organized upon a differ-ent basis, the members pur-chasins; their land in anindividual, and not in acorporate capacity/^^ The members composingthis company were mostlyfrom Krisheim and Crefeld,and had secured the landfor the purpose of settlingin the new Province. It was this latter contin-. Seal of PENN. gent that crossed the ocean in the Concord a fewmonths later, and landed at Philadelphia on the sixthof October, 1683. An event which William Pennmade the subject of a special letter to England, datedNovember 10, 1683, wherein he rejoices at the con-tinued good fortune of the Province, and the arrivalof so many people from Crefeld and the neighboringplaces in the land of Meurs.^^^ To properly place the advantages of Pennsylvaniabefore the various races of German people, and thusinduce a large emigration, a number of tracts or 158 Pqj. ^j^g amount of land held by these first purchasers, see Penny-packer, Settlement of Germantown, Phila., 1883, p. 31. 156 The Pennsylvania-Gf nrian Society. pamphlets, descriptive and othenvise, were issued byPenii, Furly and others, inboth high and low Ger-man, for the purpose ofgiving the requisite infor-mation to prospective set-tlers. Some of thesebrochures were translationsof the prospectus issuedby Penn in England;others again
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