Kankakee Valley Post, Volume 2, Number 27, DeMotte, Jasper County, 26 January 1933 — First Germans to Settle in America [ARTICLE]

First Germans to Settle in America

The first permanent German settlement in America was that fostered by William Penn at Germantown, founded in 1683. Francis Daniel Pastorius, a leader of the movement of German Protestants to America, took ship in advance of those he had induced to migrate, and landed at Philadelphia August 20, 1683. On October 6, 1683, the

ship Concord, the Mayflower of the German immigrants to America, arrived in Philadelphia, and this date has customarily been observed by Germans in America as the beginning of their history in the United States.