3 combs, and he shall have said weaving stool for two years . . and for this Jan Lensen shall teach my son Leonard in one year the art of weaving, and Leonard shall be bound to weave faithfully during said year.” On the 18th of June the little colony were in Rotterdam, whither they were accompanied by Jacob Telner, Dirck Sipman, and Jan Streypers, and there many of their business arrangements were completed. Telner conveyed 2000 acres of land to the brothers Op den Graeff, and Sipman made Hermann Op den Graeff his attorney. Jan Streypers conveyed 100 acres to his brother Willem, and to Seimens and Keurlis each 200 acres. Bleikers and Lucken each bought 200 acres from Benjamin Furly, agent for the purchasers at Frankfort. At this time James Claypoole, a Quaker merchant in London, who had previously had business relations of some kind with Telner, was about to remove with his family to Pennsylvania, intending to sail in the Concord, Wm. Jeffries, master, a vessel of 500 tons burthen. Through him a passage from London was engaged for them in the same vessel, which was expected to leave Gravesend on the 6th of July, and the money was paid in advance.[1] It is now ascertained definitely that eleven of these thirteen emigrants were from Crefeld, and the presumption that their two companions, Jan Lucken and Abraham Tunes, came from the same city is consequently strong. This presumption is increased by the indications of relationship, and the fact that the wife of Jan Seimens was Mercken Williamsen Lucken. Fortunately, however, we are not wanting in evidence of a general character. Pastorius,[2] after having an interview with Telner at Rot-
- ↑ Letter-book of James Claypoole in the Historical Society.
- ↑ Christian Pastorius, a citizen of Warburg, was the father of
Martin Pastorius, assessor of the court at Erfurt, who married
Brigitta, daughter of Christian Flinsberger of Muhlhausen. Their
son, Melchior Adam, was born at Erfurt, Sept. 21st, 1624, and
educated at the University of Wuertzburg. He studied both law and
theology, and having married Magdalena, daughter of Stephen Dietz
and of Margaretha Fischer, and having been converted to the
protestant faith, he settled at Windsheim, where he held several offices,
and finally became elder burgomaster and judge. Francis Daniel
Pastorius, the son of Melchior and Magdalena, was born at
Somerhausen, Sept. 26th, 1651. When he was seven years old his father
removed to Windsheim, and there he was sent to school. Later he
spent two years at the University of Strasburg, in 1672 went to
the high school at Basle, and afterwards studied law at Jena. He
was thoroughly familiar with the Greek, Latin, German, French,
Dutch, English, and Italian tongues, and at the age of twenty-two
publicly disputed in different languages upon law and philosophy.
On the 24th of April, 1679, he went to Frankfort, and there began
the practice of law; but in June, 1680, he started with Johan
Bonaventura Von Rodeck, “a noble young spark,” on a tour through
Holland, England, France, Switzerland, and Germany, which
occupied over two years. On his return to Frankfort in November,
1682, he heard from his friends the Pietists of the contemplated
emigration to Pennsylvania, and with a sudden enthusiasm he
determined to join them, or in his own words, “a strong desire came
upon me to cross the seas with them, and there, after having seen
and experienced too much of European idleness, to lead with them
a quiet and Christian life.” He immediately began his preparations
by writing to his father to ask his consent and obtain some
funds, and by sending his books to his brother. He sailed from
London June 10th, 1683, and arrived in Philadelphia August 20th.
His great learning and social position at home made him the most
conspicuous person at Germantown. He married Nov. 26th, 1688,
Ennecke Klosterman, and had two sons, John Samuel and Henry.
He describes himself as “of a Melancholy Cholerick Complexion,
and, therefore (juxta Culpepper, p. 194), gentle, given to Sobriety,
Solitary, Studious, doubtful, Shamefaced, timorous, pensive,
constant and true in actions, of a slow wit, with, obliviousness, &c.,
If any does him wrong.
He can't remember't long.”From his father and other relations he received altogether 1263 Reichsthaler, of which he says, “Tot pereunt cum tempore Nummi.” He wrote punning poems in various languages, and a host of books, of which a few were printed, and many have been lost. The following letter is characteristic: —
“Dear Children John Samuel and Henry Pastorius: Though you are (Gernano sanguine nati) of high Dutch Parents, yet remember that your father was Naturalized, and ye born in an English Colony, Consequently each of you Anglus Natus an Englishman by Birth. Therefore, it would be a shame for you if you should be ignorant of the English Tongue, the Tongue of your Countrymen; but that you may learn the better I have left a Book for you both, and commend the same to your reiterated perusal. If you should not get much of ye Latin, nevertheless read ye the English part oftentimes OVER AND OVER AND OVER. And I assure you that Semper aliquid hœrebit. For the Dripping of the house-eaves in Time maketh a hole in an hard stone. Non vi sed sæpe cadendo, and it is very bad Cloath that by often dipping will take no Colour.
Lectio lecta placet, decies repetita placebit
Quod Natura negat vobis Industria præstet. — F. D. P.”Israel Pemberton, a pupil fourteen years old, on whom he had used the rod, wrote concerning him 13th of 6th mo. 1698: “The first time I saw him I told my father that I thought he would prove an angry master. He asked me why so: I told him I thought so by his nose, for which he called me a prating boy.”
He died Sept. 27th, 1719.
