Francis Daniel Pastorius, Manuscript Plan of Germantown, Pennsylvania (ca. 1686–1687) Views_NYC in the aftermath

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where it has multiplied so much that it can be regarded as native

The geography includes the tracks of the great navigators of the age

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Francis Daniel Pastorius, Manuscript Plan of Germantown, Pennsylvania (ca. 1686–1687) Views_NYC in the aftermathThis manuscript map is the original plan of Germantown, drawn by Francis Daniel Pastorius, founder of the settlement and an early advocate for human rights in colonial North America. Created soon after Germantowns establishment, it records boundaries, natural features, and early lot divisions, providing a rare, close view of community formation in the late seventeenth century. The work is closely associated with Germantowns early tradition of ethical