Whittier'S "Pennsylvania Pilgrim."

Francis Daniel Pastorius, the "Pennsylvania Pilgrim," was the founder and first settler of Germantown, Philadelphia.

He, in company with a small number of German Friends, bought of William Penn a large tract of land between the Delaware and Schuylkill Rivers. They divided it into four hamlets, and Pastorius became the head and law-giver of the Germantown settlement. In the year 1688 he drew up a memorial from the Quaker meeting of Germantown against slaveholding. It is noteworthy as the first protest made by a religious body against negro slavery.

Pastorius left many published and unpublished works, and was honored and beloved in his Germantown home.

He is buried in the Friends' Burying-Ground at Germantown, but no tombstone records the date of birth and death of one so important in the early history of the place.