I suffered a good deal with my eyes at Zurich and underwent a grave operation, iridotomy. In 1914 the Austrian Government allowed me to move with my family to Switzerland (Zurich), where I remained till a little while ago. Commenting that 'the story of my books is very strange' recommending Who's Who as a source of information about himself, giving an outline of his life in the last fourteen years ('.I have lived here at Trieste from 1904 onwards. Beautiful letter to Carlo Linati, describing his difficulties in publishin Ulysses, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Dubliners and his play Exiles. "Sold at Edwards sale 1898 for $200 00/100 because Pennypacker owned the present item by 1800, this note must surely refer to Rosenbach copy rather than to the present one. A previous owner (surely Pennypacker) has written on p. The whereabouts of three examples of the agreement are recorded by Marion Dexter Learned in his 1908 Life of Francis Daniel Pastorius: the present item, noted by Learned to have been among Penn's papers (though perhaps it entered his family collection after his death), and then in the collection of Pennsylvania governor and historian Samuel Whitaker Pennypacker (1843-1916) a copy at the Historical Society of Pennsylvania and the only copy known to have Pastorius's signature (doubtless forwarded to him in Germantown by the Landgesellschaft), which had been among the Proud papers and is now in the Rosenbach. Pastorius's seal and signature do not appear, as he was already settled in America. The actual signatories are: Gerhard von Mastricht, Thomas von Wylich (printed: Wilich), Johann La Brun (Johannes le Brun), Johann Jacob Schütz, Daniel Behaghel (Behagel), Jacon Vande Wallen (Jacob von de Wallen), Iohan wilhelm Petersen (?Johann Wilhelm Peters Hausfrau, i.e., his wife), Johannes Kemler and Balthasar Jawert. Because this is a collective agreement, each signatory received a copy with the signatures of the others this is why the agreement was printed, rather than being written in full, thirteen times (per the agreement itself: p. Dated 12 November 1686, it is an attempt to refine the original terms of the land agreement, which in the intervening five years had shifted or passed generationally. It specifies the division of the land among the members, followed by a dozen rules governing the agreement: the resolution of disputes, responsibilities of the purchasers and their families, etc. The present item is the agreement of the purchase among the members of the Landgesellschaft for 25,000 acres collectively. Pastorius was the only Frankfurter Landgesellschaft member actually to emigrate other settlers from Frankfurt came, and joined forces with settlers from Cresheim, Crefeld (Krefeld) and Sommerhausen (Pastorius's own home-town) to establish Germantown. 1720), until Pastorius arrived in Philadelphia in August of 1683. Penn did not meet their agent, Franz Daniel Pastorius (1651-ca. In Penn's travels through Germany, he met with a group of Pietist entrepreneurs - originally the Teutsche Landcompagnie and eventually the Frankfurter Landgesellschaft (Frankfurt Land Company) - who sought to buy a portion of his land. Penn's "Holy Experiment," which ultimately foundered, nevertheless provided for the creation of a profoundly tolerant region in the New World. Penn named that land for his father: Pennsylvania, "Penn's Woods." Even before the grant, Penn traveled widely to engage various dissenting communities: Mennonites, Amish, Pietists, Brethren (Dunkers or Dunkards), etc. William Penn (1644-1718) was an English Quaker who in 1681 obtained from Charles I and the Duke of York the world's largest personal land-grant: some 45,000 square miles west of New Jersey and north of Maryland. With the red wax seals and ink signatures of nine of the sixteen signatories to )(2v. Splits to the folds with small losses at their intersections, most repaired verso (i.e., the inner forme). Two folds to the bifolium resulting in eight compartments. THE PENN FAMILY COPY OF A 1686 LAND-PURCHASE AGREEMENT.
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