Mr. President. today I take pleasure in cosponsoring a joint resolution by Senator BUCKLEY that designates September 20 as GermanAmerican Day. This legislation is noteworthy as this Nation approaches its Bicentennial year. We should all be cognizant of the invaluable contribution German immigrants made to the settling. founding and molding of our country. The first German immigrants sailed on the Concord and arrived October 6. 1683. in Philadelphia. The German leader Franz Daniel Pastorius bought from William Penn a tract of land bordering Philadelphia which today is known as Germantown. Pa. Germantown. the first permanent German settlement in America was founded only 2 years after the founding of Philadelphia in 1681.
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