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Settlement in the Germantown area began, at the invitation of William Penn, in 1683 by Nederlanders and Germans under the leadership of Francis Daniel Pastorius fleeing religious persecution. [2] [4] [5] Colonial Germantown was a leader in religious thought, printing, and education. Important dates in Germantown's early history include: [6]
The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against enslavement of Africans made by a religious body in the Thirteen Colonies. Francis Daniel Pastorius authored the petition; he and the three other Quakers living in Germantown, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia), Garret Hendericks, Derick op den Graeff, and Abraham op den Graeff, signed it on behalf of the ...
Jacob Gottschalk in Global Anabaptist Mennonite Encyclopedia Online Jacob's Account of Mennonites in America p. 185 in William Penn and the Dutch Quaker Migration to Pennsylvania by William I. Hull Letter to Amsterdam p. 265 in History of Old Germantown by Dr. Naaman H. Keyser, C. Henry Kain, John Palmer Garber, Horace F. McCann, Germantown ...
Former Mennonite leader Herman op den Graeff was his grandfather. The Op den Graeff family were originally Mennonites. [3] William Penn talks to the (later) founders of Germantown, Pennsylvania. Quaker missionary work in the lower and middle Rhine River valley during the 1660s resulted in the conversion of a number of Mennonites in and around ...
The Germantown Mennonite Church in Germantown, Pennsylvania is one example of such a progressive Mennonite church. ... During Colonial America, Mennonites were ...
The plan of Germantown in 1689. Location of Thones Kunders' house is marked with red dot. Lot owners shown for 1689 and 1714. Thones Kunders's house at 5109 Germantown Avenue, where the 1688 Petition Against Slavery was written. From Jenkins (1915). The table on which the 1688 Petition Against Slavery was written and signed.
The Op den Graeff family were originally Mennonites. [3] William Penn talks to the (later) founders of Germantown, Pennsylvania, Francis Daniel Pastorius, Derick and Abraham op den Graeff. Quaker missionary work in the lower and middle Rhine River valley during the 1660s resulted in the conversion of a number of Mennonites in and around Krefeld ...
Seal of Germantown, 1691 Pictures from Old Germantown: the Pastorius family residences are shown on the upper left (c. 1683) and upper right (c. 1715), the center structure is the house and printing business of the Caurs family (ca. 1735), and the bottom structure is the market place (c. 1820).