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I believe the illustration showing the house of Daniel Francis Pastorius actually shows the home of his grandson of the same name. My understanding is that the home of Pastorius Sr. was located adjacent to where the one shown here is now located. TwelveGreat (talk) 12:59, 11 August 2016 (UTC)[reply]
@Johnweaver13: In the edit summary for this edit, you commented, 'added my book "Franz Daniel Pastorius and Transatlantic Culture" again (http://www.pastorius.info) which had been removed for some reason unknown to me.' The book had been removed by Juvrudinthis edit.
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In 1683, a group of Mennonites, Pietists, and Quakers in Frankfurt, including Abraham op den Graeff a cousin of William Penn, approached Pastorius about acting as their agent to purchase
It seems unlikely that Abraham op den Graef of Krefeld Germany, was a member of the Frankfort Company who hired Pastorius as their agent. If there is evidence that this is so, then it needs to be presented.
It is often said by genealogists that op Den Graef was a cousin of William Penn. This usually comes up by claiming a connection between his mother Margaret Jasper and the Op den Graef family of Krefeld Germany. There are also genealogists who think both lines descend from from John William Duke of Julich Cleves Berg, and that the Op Den Graef's of Krefeld descend from him via a bastard son. I personally have not seen any satisfying evidence for either view.
In anycase, if this is left in as written, then there needs to be documentary support to show that this connection is true.
If Abraham Op Den Graef was in fact close kin to William Penn we would expected that point to have been picked upped by contemporary writers if not they themselves. We know that Pastorius and the Op Den Greafs worked together closely, and we know that Pastorius and William Penn had a collegial working relationship, as described in their letters. We do not, however, see any particular mention of the Op Den Graefs in their correspondence, beyond the fact that they were citizens of Germantown. While this is not conclusive evidence, we would have expected that if the two were indeed cousins, this point would have been made by either Pastorius or Penn.
