COLLECTION NAME:
JCB Books Internet Archive
Author:
Pastorius, Francis Daniel, 1651-1719.
Author (contributor):
German Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Author (contributor):
Indigenous Languages Digitization Project (John Carter Brown Library)
Author (contributor):
Paskell, Thomas.
Author (contributor):
Penn, William, 1644-1718.
Author (contributor):
Pastorius, Melchior Adam, 1624-1702.
Title:
Umständige geographische Beschreibung der zu allerletzt erfundenen Provintz Pensylvaniae, : in denen End-Gräntzen Americae in der West-Welt gelegen, /
Publisher:
Zufinden bey Andreas Otto
Begin Publication Date:
1700
MMS Id (Alma identifier):
991031762049706966
Permanent Call Number:
J700 .P293u
Statistics Note 1 (Accession Number):
STAT_NOTE_1_ACCESSION #: 01592
Uniform Resource Identifier:
Subjects:
Germans--Pennsylvania.
Subjects:
Pennsylvania Dutch.
Subjects:
Pennsylvania--Description and travel.
Subjects:
Pennsylvania--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775.
Subjects:
Indian linguistics--North American languages.
Subjects:
Imprint 1700.
General Note:
"Zum Beschluss Folget des Eigen-Herrns und Ober-Haupts dieser Provintz selbst concepirte, und an seine-Freunde übersandte Beschreibung, deren Umstände notabel zu lesen sind", p. [121]-140, has divisional title page and is a slightly condensed reprint of: Beschreibung der in America neu-erfundenen Provinz Pensylvanien / by William Penn, first printed in Hamburg, 1684, the original texts of which were first printed under titles: A letter from William Penn poprietary [sic] and governour of Pennsylvania in America, to the Committee of the Free Society of Traders, London, 1683, and An abstract of a letter from Thomas Paskell, London, 1683.; Pages 80-81 contain various specimens of an unidentified Indian language or languages. The Indian tribes who were living in Pennsylvania were the Lenape, Iroquois, Shawnee, Erie, Munsee, Susquehannock, and the Nanticoke.; Signatures: )(⁶ A-H⁸ (A1, H5 versos blank) I⁶; Woodcut head and tail pieces; initials.