Derick op den Graeff and Abraham op den Graeff with the petition of the first organized religious protest against slavery in colonial America; sketch by Matthias Laurenz Gräff (2023)
bailiff or chief executive (burgomaster) of Germantown
In office 1693–1694
Personal details
Born
1646 Krefeld, Germany
Died
1697 Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
Profession
Politician, weaver, merchant
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Signature of Derick op den Graeff (at the 1688 Germantown Quaker petition against slavery)
Derick Isaacs op den Graeff, also Dirk, Dirck, Derrick Isaacs op den Graeff, Opdengraef, Opdengraff as well as Op den Gräff[1] (1646 in Krefeld - May 24, 1697 in Germantown, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania) was one of the so-called Original 13, the first closed group of German emigrants to North America, an original founder of Germantown, Pennsylvania, as well as a civic leader. As an early abolitionist He was a signer of the first organized religious protest against slavery in colonial America. He, or his brother Abraham op den Graeff, are briefly mentioned in John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "The Pennsylvania Pilgrim" simply as "Op Den Graaf".
^Geschichte der Mennoniten von Menno Simons' Austritt aus der Kömisch-Katholischen Kirche in 1536 bis zu deren Auswanderung nach Amerika in 1683. Mehr speciell ihre Ansiedlung und Ausbreitung in Amerika. Enthaltend: Kurze Skizzen der einzelnen Gemeinden mit den Namen ihrer Prediger vom Jahre 1683 bis zur gegenwärtigen Zeit, p 302, by Daniel Kolb Cassel (1890)
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