Abraham op den Graeff Politician

Abraham Isacks op den Graeff (c. 1649 – 1731) was an original settler of Germantown, Pennsylvania, as well as a politician, award-winning merchant, and signer of the first organized religious protest against slavery in colonial America. He was a subject of John Greenleaf Whittier's poem "The Pennsylvania Pilgrim".

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Abraham op den Graeff
Birth place
Krefeld
Date of deathJanuary 01, 1731
Place of death
Philadelphia

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