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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing) 16 0 Browse Search
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.) 14 0 Browse Search
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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Paschal, George Washington 1812-1878 (search)
Paschal, George Washington 1812-1878 Lawyer; born in Skull Shoals, Ga., Nov. 23, 1812; received an academic education; was admitted to the bar in 1832; removed to Texas in 1847. During the Civil War he earnestly supported the National cause; settled in Washington, D. C., in 1869. His publications include Annotated digest of the laws of Texas; Annotated Constitution of the United States; Decisions of the Supreme Court of Texas; Sketch of the last years of Samuel Houston, etc. He died in Washington, D. C., Feb. 16, 1878. Pastorius, Francis Daniel
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pastorius, Francis Daniel -1681 (search)
Pastorius, Francis Daniel -1681 Author of A Particular Geographical Description of the Lately Discovered Province of Pennsylvania situated on the Frontiers of tia. The company's agent in the New World was a rising young lawyer, Francis Daniel Pastorius, son of Judge Pastorius, of Windsheim, who studied law at Strasburg, BJudge Pastorius, of Windsheim, who studied law at Strasburg, Basle, and Jena, and at Ratisbon, and received the degree of Doctor of Law, at Nuremberg, in 1676. In 1679 he became deeply interested in the teachings of Dr. Spenertheir freedom as you have to keep them slaves? Under the wise direction of Pastorius, the Germantown settlement grew and prospered. The inhabitants planted orchacerning the German Society. The German society commissioned myself, Francis Daniel Pastorius, as their licensed agent, to go to Pennsylvania and to superintend thetly by Swedes. On the twenty-fourth day of Octobriis, anno 1685, I, Francis Daniel Pastorius, with the wish and concurrence of our governor, laid out and planned a
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Pennsylvania, (search)
ia, where changes are made in the frame of government ; and to settle disputes and prevent lawsuits, three peacemakers are appointed for each county......March 10, 1683 Weekly post established (letters carried from Philadelphia to Chester, 2d.; to New Castle, 4d.; to Maryland, 6d.)......July, 1683 First mill built at Chester......1683 Franfort Land Company, of Germany, purchase 25,000 acres of land around Germantown, and begin a settlement, consisting of twenty families under Francis D. Pastorius......Oct. 24, 1683 A woman tried as a witch; acquitted, but bound to keep the peace; Penn presides; first and only case of such trial in Pennsylvania......Feb. 27, 1684 Penn, establishing a provincial court of five judges, Nicholas Moore, chief-justice, and leaving the executive to the council, Thomas Lloyd, president, sails for England......Aug. 12, 1684 [Province has twenty settled townships and 7,000 inhabitants.] William Bradford establishes the first printing-press i
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Book III (continued) (search)
rtunity. The two later periods in many instances overlap. The name Francis Daniel Pastorius (1651-1719) begins the literary as well as the historical annals of the Germans in America. Pastorius, in 1683 founder of the first German settlement at Germantown, Pennsylvania, was a thorough scholar, a university man, trained in thvery on record in America, made by the German Quakers of Germantown in 1688. Pastorius's familiarity with ancient and modem languages is seen in his Hive or Beestocanuscript verse-collections, Voluptates Apiana; and Deliciae Hortenses reveal Pastorius as a cultivator of bees and flowers. He who never has a garden, and knows nahly paradise,β€”he is but a slave and serf of the plough, and is accursed, said Pastorius the teacher, caring not solely for the progress of his pupils in the three R'g the engrossing materialism of the pioneer's existence. Contemporary with Pastorius, most quaint and curious, are the odes and theosophical writings of John Kelp
Cambridge History of American Literature: volume 3 (ed. Trent, William Peterfield, 1862-1939., Erskine, John, 1879-1951., Sherman, Stuart Pratt, 1881-1926., Van Doren, Carl, 1885-1950.), Index (search)
589 Paradise lost, 487 Paragraphs on Banks, 432 Parisian romance, a, 278 Park, John, 445 Parker, Lottie Blair, 290 Parker, Louis N., 296 Parker, Samuel, 136, 137 Parker, Theodore, 119, 228 Parkman, F., 89, 135, 171, 178, 180, 188, 189-91, 192, 196, 200, 472 Parks, Wm., 537 Parlement of Foules, 485 Parlor Match, a, 279 Parr, Samuel, 453, 454 Parry, Dr., 157 Parsons, Thomas William, 38, 52 Passe Rose, 86 Passionate Pilgrim, the, 103 Pastor, Tony, 272 Pastorius, F. D., 572-73 Past, the present, the future, the, 435 Pater, Walter, 107, 261, 377 Pathetic Symphony, the, 49 Path to Riches, the, 430 Pattee, F. L., 75 n. Patten, S. N., 442 Patterson, Medill, 294 Paul, 469 Paul Kauvar, 277 Paul Patoff, 88 Payne, J. H., 498 Peabody, Andrew Preston, 302, 472 Peabody, F. G., 423 Peabody, Josephine Preston, 290 Peabody, O. W. B., 481 Pearl Bryn, 512 Pearl of great price, the, 519 Pearl of Orr's Island, the, 72 Peary, Jo
The writings of John Greenleaf Whittier, Volume 1. (ed. John Greenleaf Whittier), Narrative and legendary poems (search)
ity of Philadelphia. The company's agent in the New World was a rising young lawyer, Francis Daniel Pastorius, son of Judge Pastorius, of Windsheim, who, at the age of seventeen, entered the UniverJudge Pastorius, of Windsheim, who, at the age of seventeen, entered the University of Altorf. He studied law at Strasburg, Basle, and Jena, and at Ratisbon, the seat of the Imperial Government, obtained a practical knowledge of international polity. Successful in all his exaght to fight for their freedom as you have to keep them slaves? Under the wise direction of Pastorius, the Germantown settlement grew and prospered. The inhabitants planted orchards and vineyardstow. Their trade suits well their habitation,β€” We find convenience for their occupation.” Pastorius seems to have been on intimate terms with William Penn, Thomas Lloyd, Chief Justice Logan, Thoe foregoing facts in regard to the German pilgrims of the New World, thus closes his notice of Pastorius:β€” No tombstone, not even a record of burial, indicates where his remains have found their l<