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Herman Isacks Op Den Graeff
Herman Isacks op den Graeff, also ''Herman op den Graeff, Opdengraef'', ''Opdengraff'' as well as ''Op den Gräff'' (1642 in Krefeld - 1704 / 1708 in Delaware County, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was one of the so-called Original 13, the first closed group of German emigrants to North America and an original founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania. He was an outspoken anti slavery man and abolitionist. Biography Krefeld Herman op den Graeff was born to Isaac Herman op den Graeff (1616–1669) and Margaret 'Grietgen' Peters Doors (around 1620–1683). Former Mennonite leader Herman op den Graeff was his grandfather. The Op den Graeff family were originally Mennonites. Quaker missionary work in the lower and middle Rhine River valley during the 1660s resulted in the conversion of a number of Mennonites in and around Krefeld. Among these converts were Derick op den Graeff and his family. The Quakers were not as readily tolerated by the people of Krefeld. Their organized activity ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Matthias Laurenz Gräff
Matthias Laurenz Gräff (also known as ''Matthias Laurenz Gräff Ilpenstein''; born 19 July 1984) is an Austrian-Greek academic painter, private historian, politician, political activist and co-founder and organizer of the non-partisan platform Dialog im Kamptal. Since 2013 Gräff has served as chairman of the worldwide Family Association Gräff-Graeff and since 2024 as the official Representative of the NEOS parliamentary party for Greece. Biography Family Matthias Laurenz Gräff was born into an Austrian family of several politicians and artists. He is the child of Helmuth Gräff, an academic painter, and Martina Maria Elisabeth Gräff (née Gach), [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
County Of Moers
The County of Moers (, ) was a historical princely territory on the left bank of the Lower Rhine that included the towns of Moers and Krefeld as well as the surrounding villages and regions. History The House of Moers went extinct in 1578, after which the county was claimed by the House of Orange-Nassau as well as the Duchy of Cleves. On the extinction of Orange-Nassau in 1702, the County of Moers was acquired by the Kingdom of Prussia, and elevated to a principality on 6 May 1705. Although the county was legally dissolved as far back as 1797/1801, the names of communal institutions and local firms often incorporate the word ''Grafschafter'' ("comital") which harks back to the County of Moers. Footnotes References Literature * Hermann Altgelt''Geschichte der Grafen und Herren von Moers.''Düsseldorf, 1845. * Karl Hirschberg: ''Historische Reise durch die Grafschaft Moers von der Römerzeit bis zur Jahrhundertwende'', Verlag Steiger, Moers, 1975 * Gerhard Köbler: ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Naturalization
Naturalization (or naturalisation) is the legal act or process by which a non-national of a country acquires the nationality of that country after birth. The definition of naturalization by the International Organization for Migration of the United Nations excludes citizenship that is automatically acquired (e.g. at birth) or is acquired by declaration. Naturalization usually involves an application or a motion and approval by legal authorities. The rules of naturalization vary from country to country but typically include a promise to obey and uphold that country's laws and taking and subscribing to an oath of allegiance, and may specify other requirements such as a minimum legal residency and adequate knowledge of the national dominant language or culture. To counter multiple citizenship, some countries require that applicants for naturalization renounce any other citizenship that they currently hold, but whether this renunciation actually causes loss of original citizen ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thomas Lloyd (lieutenant Governor)
Thomas Lloyd (6 April 1640 – 10 September 1694) was a lieutenant-governor of the Province of Pennsylvania and a Quaker preacher. Early life He was the third son of Charles I Lloyd (1613-1657) of Dolobran, Montgomeryshire, Dolobran, in the parish of Meifod, Montgomeryshire in Wales, by his wife Elizabeth Stanley, a member of a junior line of the Stanley family, Earl of Derby, Earls of Derby. Career He was educated at Ruthin School. He studied law and medicine at Jesus College, Oxford, from which he was graduated in 1661. He became a Religious Society of Friends, Quaker, and in 1664 was arrested and imprisoned in Welshpool until the Declaration of Indulgence (1672), Royal Declaration of Indulgence in 1672.LLOYD family, of Dolobran, Mont. ''Welsh Biography Online'', Honourable Society of Cymmrodorion, accessed 24 March 2013 [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Thones Kunders
Thones Dennis Kunders (c. 1654 – September 1729, Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was an early settler of colonial Pennsylvania. Biography Kunders was born in Mönchengladbach, Holy Roman Empire, and was a citizen of Krefeld. A dyer by trade, he was the head of one of the first 13 German families who sailed aboard the ship ''Concord'' to arrive in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on 6 October 1683, beginning the German immigration to America. Kunders later called himself Anthony Conrads and still later Cunard, and was also called Dennis Conrad. At Kunders's house in Germantown were held the first German religious services in America, attended by both Mennonites and Quakers, including Pennsylvania proprietor William Penn. On February 18, 1688, the first protest against slavery in the New World was drafted in Kunders's house. The protest, written by Francis Daniel Pastorius Francis Daniel Pastorius (September 26, 1651) was a German-born educator, lawyer, poet, and publ ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery
The 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery was the first protest against enslavement of Africans made by a religious body in the Thirteen Colonies. Francis Daniel Pastorius authored the petition; he and the three other Quakers living in Germantown, Pennsylvania (now part of Philadelphia), Garret Hendericks, Derick op den Graeff, and Abraham op den Graeff, signed it on behalf of the Germantown Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends. Clearly a highly controversial document, Friends forwarded it up the hierarchical chain of their administrative structure—monthly, quarterly, and yearly meetings—without either approving or rejecting it. The petition effectively disappeared for 150 years into Philadelphia Yearly Meeting's capacious archives; but upon rediscovery in 1844 by the Philadelphia antiquarian Nathan Kite, latter-day abolitionists published it in 1844 in ''The Friend,'' (Vol. XVII, No. 16.) in support of their anti-slavery agitation. Historical backgroun ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Germantown Map 1689
Germantown or German Town may refer to: Places Australia * Germantown, Queensland, a locality in the Cassowary Coast Region United States * Germantown, California, the former name of Artois, a census-designated place in Glenn County * Germantown, Connecticut, a neighborhood of Danbury, Connecticut * Germantown, Illinois, a village in Clinton County * Germantown, Decatur County, Indiana, an unincorporated town * Germantown, Iowa, an unincorporated community in O'Brien County * Germantown, Kentucky, a city in Bracken and Mason counties * Germantown, Louisville, a neighborhood in Louisville, Kentucky * Germantown, Anne Arundel County, Maryland, an unincorporated community * Germantown, Baltimore County, Maryland, an unincorporated community of Perry Hall, Maryland * Germantown, Maryland, a census-designated place in Montgomery County and the only "Germantown, Maryland" recognized by the United States Postal Service * Germantown, Worcester County, Maryland, an unincorpo ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Inscription Pastorius Monument
Epigraphy () is the study of inscriptions, or epigraphs, as writing; it is the science of identifying graphemes, clarifying their meanings, classifying their uses according to dates and cultural contexts, and drawing conclusions about the writing and the writers. Specifically excluded from epigraphy are the historical significance of an epigraph as a document and the artistic value of a literary composition. A person using the methods of epigraphy is called an ''epigrapher'' or ''epigraphist''. For example, the Behistun inscription is an official document of the Achaemenid Empire engraved on native rock at a location in Iran. Epigraphists are responsible for reconstructing, translating, and dating the trilingual inscription and finding any relevant circumstances. It is the work of historians, however, to determine and interpret the events recorded by the inscription as document. Often, epigraphy and history are competences practised by the same person. Epigraphy is a primary t ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pastorius Monument
Pastorius may refer to: People *Francis Daniel Pastorius (1651–c. 1720), leader of the first organized settlement of Germans in Pennsylvania * Francis D. Pastorius (1920–1962), American lawyer and politician *Jaco Pastorius (1951–1987), American jazz bassist and composer ** ''Jaco Pastorius'' (album), a 1976 album *Jim Pastorius (1881–1941), American professional baseball player Other *Operation Pastorius, a failed sabotage attack by Nazi Germany on the United States in 1942 *Pastorius Park, a park in the Chestnut Hill neighborhood of Northwest Philadelphia, United States, named after Francis Daniel Pastorius See also *Pistorius Pistorius or Pistor (from Latin ''pistor'' meaning miller or baker) are Latinized surnames, corresponding to the Dutch Bakker or the German Becker and German Müller. Notable people with the surname include: Pistorius * Boris Pistorius (bo ..., a surname {{disambiguation, surname Surnames of German origin ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Koblenz
Koblenz ( , , ; Moselle Franconian language, Moselle Franconian: ''Kowelenz'') is a German city on the banks of the Rhine (Middle Rhine) and the Moselle, a multinational tributary. Koblenz was established as a Roman Empire, Roman military post by Nero Claudius Drusus, Drusus . Its name originates from the Latin ', meaning "(at the) confluence". The actual confluence is today known as the "Deutsches Eck, German Corner", a symbol of the unification of Germany that features an Emperor William monuments, equestrian statue of Emperor William I. The city celebrated its 2,000th anniversary in 1992. The city ranks as the third-largest city by population in Rhineland-Palatinate, behind Mainz and Ludwigshafen am Rhein. Its usual-residents' population is 112,000 (). Koblenz lies in a narrow flood plain between high hill ranges, some reaching mountainous height, and is served by an express rail and autobahn network. It is part of the populous Rhineland. Name Historic spellings include ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Pennsylvania Province
The Province of Pennsylvania, also known as the Pennsylvania Colony, was a British North American colony founded by William Penn, who received the land through a grant from Charles II of England in 1681. The name Pennsylvania was derived from Latin, meaning "Penn's Woods", a reference to William Penn's father Admiral Sir William Penn. History European settlement The Province of Pennsylvania was one of two major Restoration colonies in colonial-era British America. A plan for government of the colony of Pennsylvania was heavily influenced by the ideas and utopian aspirations of English political scientist James Harrington. The proprietary colony's charter remained in the Penn family until the Penns were ousted in 1776 during the American Revolutionary War, and the Commonwealth of Pennsylvania was established as one of the original thirteen states. In June 1776, the Lower counties on the Delaware, a separate colony within the Province of Pennsylvania, broke away from th ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Abraham Op Den Graeff
Abraham Isaacs op den Graeff, also ''Op den Graff'', ''Opdengraef'' as well as ''Op den Gräff'' (c. 1649 – c. 1731) was one of the so-called Original 13, the first closed group of German emigrants to North America, and an original founder of Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Germantown, Pennsylvania, as well as a civic leader, member of the Pennsylvania Provincial Council, Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly, award-winning weaver, and as an early Abolitionism, abolitionist signer of the 1688 Germantown Quaker Petition Against Slavery, first organized religious protest against slavery in colonial America. He, or his brother Derick op den Graeff, are briefly mentioned in John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "The Pennsylvania Pilgrim" simply as "Op Den Graaf". Biography Family Abraham op den Graeff was born around 1649 in Krefeld, Germany to Isaac Hermans op den Graeff (1616–1679), a Krefeld Mennonites, Mennonite who turned to Quakers, Quakerism during the 1670s, and Margaret ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
