The life of Francis Daniel Pastorius, the founder of Germantown, illustrated with ninety photographic reproductions . um Academiae [at Kiel]natalem scripta. [See Torquatus A. Frangipani Auspice D. M. . Academiae, &c.] 1665. The other work, Romischcr Adlcr, which Schnorr von Car-olsfeld erroneously attributed to (Johannes) Augustin by Melchior Adam Pastorius. his brother, as will be seen later. The eldest daughter of Martin Pastorius, Margaretha, kepthouse for her older brother, Casparus, until his death and then Cf. AUgemeine Deutsche Biographie, sub nomine. Cf. F. D


The life of Francis Daniel Pastorius, the founder of Germantown, illustrated with ninety photographic reproductions . um Academiae [at Kiel]natalem scripta. [See Torquatus A. Frangipani Auspice D. M. . Academiae, &c.] 1665. The other work, Romischcr Adlcr, which Schnorr von Car-olsfeld erroneously attributed to (Johannes) Augustin by Melchior Adam Pastorius. his brother, as will be seen later. The eldest daughter of Martin Pastorius, Margaretha, kepthouse for her older brother, Casparus, until his death and then Cf. AUgemeine Deutsche Biographie, sub nomine. Cf. F. D. Beschreibung. Titles from the Catalogue of Printed Books in the British Museum. .\\.viUZ\ !,4i!;l^ . ..?^ .. o vo;-i ri;:. (rnjH^ j;v ^n 5^v;v .J )7::: I •_. i I , f -,i,r- ????•ri ?-.,,-,,•, -^ , , ..., • 1 H ?...::;?:;. ,:-;;)or-^ :..;--k-0J - -: r -V ;ti.::.. ; :-? -???: ^m/fr: •SrT) A ,•,?.,., -^: .3:.->.oA r-:.!.- (!;;^ .•>v»ili-S et Chtfr-iicsjjr^mui mac/runif\mt.^ ?*. )\. Melchior Adam Pastorius Romischer Adler .(Frontispiece.) ^^• t J\. I \: i #«- The Founder of Germantown H married a chirurgiis of Ellfeldt near Bingen, but died at thebirth of her first child, a daughter. Melchior Adam, her youngerbrother, has left us some very touching German verses in mem-ory of her. The first four of these verses describe the perilsof wedded life: Vermahlet sein, ist so ein Sach}),- <• Die nach sich zeiicht uiel Weh und Ach .^ .^-i ?p-1 *..?.,-., Gebahren bringt der Schmertzen uiel,,. la manchmal gar des Todes Ziel.^^ * The third son. Henricus Pastorius, served as a soldier underthe Dukes of Liineburg, but died at the early age of twenty-fiveyears. The only information we have found concerning himis that given by Melchior Adam,^^ his brother. The modest Rebecca, who entered the cloister at Erfurtand became a harmless nun, is mentioned by her brother,Melchior Adam, who dedicated an anagram to her, together witha few lines of Latin. The anagram run


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