Pastorius, << pas TOH rih uhs, >> Francis Daniel (1651-1719?), a German lawyer and scholar, founded Germantown, now a part of Philadelphia. He became interested in the Society of Friends, or Quakers, at about the time that William Penn founded the colony of Pennsylvania. Pastorius bought 15,000 acres (6,070 hectares) of land from Penn in 1683, and laid out the settlement of Germantown for German Quakers and Mennonites. Pastorius was born on Sept. 26, 1651, in Sommerhausen, Germany, near Wurzburg.
