Francis Daniel Pastorius, Manuscript Plan of Germantown, Pennsylvania (ca. 1686–1687) Views_NYC from Spieghel der Zeevaerdt

from Spieghel der Zeevaerdt

Election Map of Indiana

The paintings were sent to France where the engravings for the first series of sixteen were executed in Paris

in the aftermath

Francis Daniel Pastorius, Manuscript Plan of Germantown, Pennsylvania (ca. 1686–1687) Views_NYC from Spieghel der ZeevaerdtThis 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