The life of Francis Daniel Pastorius, the founder of Germantown, illustrated with ninety photographic reproductions . lU^-^w-C^ \--. \_ ? _ i , A.,,..:...;- ^ ,KV. rt^ „,;V:^.^...-,.;./.. •VII , The Founder of Germantown i6i to be held every Six Weeks in the yeare by the Bailiffe, Bur-gesses and Comonahy of German Towne . . before theBaiHffe and the three oldest Burgesses of the said Corporacon,and the Recorder for the time The Record^ of the General Court is still in existence in a I fair state of preservation. It is now the property of the Histor- » ical Society of Pennsylvan
The life of Francis Daniel Pastorius, the founder of Germantown, illustrated with ninety photographic reproductions . lU^-^w-C^ \--. \_ ? _ i , A.,,..:...;- ^ ,KV. rt^ „,;V:^.^...-,.;./.. •VII , The Founder of Germantown i6i to be held every Six Weeks in the yeare by the Bailiffe, Bur-gesses and Comonahy of German Towne . . before theBaiHffe and the three oldest Burgesses of the said Corporacon,and the Recorder for the time The Record^ of the General Court is still in existence in a I fair state of preservation. It is now the property of the Histor- » ical Society of Pennsylvania. The minutes are kept partly in I German and partly in Dutch and cover the period from 1691 to I 1706-7. In the record we can trace the several activities in which Pastorius served his countrymen in Germantown. As has al-. ready been seen, Pastorius was named by the Charter as the first I Bailif of Germantown. The following references to him are i found in the minutes of the Court Book: I On the first day of the tenth month, 1691, a so-called new [ election was held at which Pastorius was chosen Bail
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