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Signature of Abraham op den Graeff (at the 1688 Germantown Quaker petition against slavery) Abraham Isaacs op den Graeff, also Op den Graff, Opdengraef as well as Op den Gräff [1] (c. 1649 – c. 1731) was one of the so-called Original 13, the first closed group of German emigrants to North America, and an original founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, as well as a civic leader, member of the ...
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 ...
In Germantown, two of the Op den Graeff brothers, Derick and Abraham, signed along Francis Daniel Pastorius and Gerrit Hendricksz the first organized religious petition against slavery in the colonies, the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery. Abraham op den Graeff was the only one of the three brothers who had descendants.
Signature of Derick op den Graeff (at the 1688 Germantown Quaker petition against slavery) Derick Isaacs op den Graeff, also Dirk, Dirck, Derrick Isaacs op den Graeff, Opdengraef, Opdengraff as well as Op den Gräff [1] (1646 in Krefeld - May 24, 1697 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was one of the so-called Original 13, the first closed group of German emigrants to North America, an ...
He was also a direct descendant of Herman op den Graeff, mennonite leader of Krefeld, and his grandson Abraham op den Graeff, one of the founders of Germantown and in 1688 signer of the first protest against slavery in colonial America. Jonathan attended private schools and Franklin College. He studied medicine.
Abraham op den Graeff (German-American), signer of the first organized religious protest against slavery in colonial America; Derick op den Graeff (German-American), signer of the first organized religious protest against slavery in colonial America; Samuel Oughton (American), advocate of black labour rights in Jamaica) John Parker (former ...
Pastorius was the first bailiff. Jacob Telner, Derick Isacks op den Graeff and his brother Abraham Isacks op den Graeff, Reynier Tyson, and Tennis Coender (Thones Kunders) were burgesses, besides six committeemen. They had authority to hold "the general court of the corporation of Germantowne", to make laws for the government of the settlement ...
Trinken op den Graeff (1612– around 1658) Hallerkin op den Graeff (1614–1691) Isaac op den Graeff (1616–1679) o.k. Hermann Isacks op den Graeff (1642–1708) o.k Margaret op den Graeff (1667–1748) Sydge op den Graeff (1670-1642) Derrick Isacks op den Graeff (1646–1697) Abraham Isacks op den Graeff (1649–1731) See note [1] below