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Francis Daniel Pastorius - PLAQUE

Francis Daniel Pastorius - PLAQUE is a Pennsylvania historical marker in Philadelphia, Philadelphia County, dedicated 1924.

502 S. Front St. (west side, near South St.), Philadelphia

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Francis Daniel Pastorius founder of Germantown, 1651-1719, built here in 1683 on a lot 102 feet front a dugout *his first American home* in which, October 25, 1683, the thirteenth original settlers of Germantown drew lots for their new homes. He placed over the door this inscription: "Parva domus sed amica bonis, procul este prophani" "A little house but a friend to the good; keep away, ye prophane" at which his guest William Penn laughed.

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Historical maps covering this location

1660 · Noui Belgii Nouaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1670 · Virginia and Maryland As it is planted and Inhabited this present Year 1670 ... (John Carter Brown Library, Brown University)
1675 · Pascaerte van Nieu Nederland : streckende vande Zuÿdt Revier tot de Noordt Revier en't… (Princeton University Library)
1689 · A mapp of ye improved part of Pensilvania in America, divided into countyes, townships… (Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library)
1856 · Philadelphia. (David Rumsey Map Collection, Stanford Libraries)

Noui Belgii Nouaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula, 1660, covering the location of Francis Daniel Pastorius - PLAQUE, with a pin at the marker's coordinates — Noui Belgii Nouaeque Angliae nec non partis Virginiae tabula, 1660, covering this location. Digital Commonwealth, Boston Public Library. The pin is ours, placed from the marker's coordinates.

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Marker data: Pennsylvania Historical and Museum Commission via data.pa.gov

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