—Historical and Biographical Sketches [The Settlement of Germantown and other early history of Pennsylvania] & Daniel Pastorius’ “Description of Pennsylvania”

 

Historical and Biographical Sketches [The Settlement of Germantown and other early history of Pennsylvania]

Pennypacker-Historical

(1883) Samuel W. Pennypacker (23rd Gov. of Penna.), pp., 416pp. (founders of Penna. / Op Den Graeff's were ancestors of mine, as were many others mentioned in the book: van Bebber, Gottschalk, Ziegler, Kolb, Kassel, Van Sintern, Schumacher, Pletjes [grandmother of William Penn, who was a cousin of mine], Linderman (relatives of Martin Luther), Kuster, Jansen, etc.). Founding of Germantown, Mennonite Migration and the Martyr's Mirror, and a dozen or so short biograpahies of various individuals, to which I have added Daniel Pastorius’ “Description of Pennsylvania” (1700) and a brief bio and photos of the author, 20pp., 450 total pages, pb., 24.00 + P&H.