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"In our vast woods, what ever simples grow, 
Whose virtues none but the Indians know 
Within the confines of this garden brought, 
To rise with added lustre shall be taught, 
Then culled with judgment, each shall yield its juice 
Saliferous balsam to the sick man's use." 
Upon coming to German-Town, Pastorius located upon 
lot Number 16, the site ot his house now being covered by 
the imposing building of the First Methodist Episcopal 
Church. South of Pastorius, upon Lot No. 15, was his 
former servant, Isaac Dilbeck, a man for whom it may be 
judged the Founder had the highest regard. He appears* 
to have been a man constitutionally weak, for while crossing 
the ocean, Pastorius wrote: "Isaac Dilbeck, who according to 
external appearances seemed the strongest, remained sick the 
longest." Also upon the same authority March 7, 1684, we 
learn that while others were "in a healthy condition" with 
good appetites, "Isaac Dilbeck for the past eight days was 
somewhat indisposed, also Jacob Schumacher, who on the 
first of October, cut his foot with an axe, and could not work 
for a week." We learn further these men had common 
faults, for this same Jacob Schumacher had John Silans 
before the court, and compelled him to promise to finish his 
barn "within 4 weeks next coming." 
Upon lot No. 14 south adjoining, lived Cornelius Bom, 
who within a year after the settlement wrote: "I have here 
a shop of many kinds of goods and edibles. Sometimes 1 
ride out with merchandise, and sometimes bring back mostly 
from the Indians, and deal with them in many ways. I 
have no rent, or tax, or excise to pay. I have a cow which 
gives plenty of milk, a horse to ride around. My pigs increase 
rapidly, so that in the summer I had 17, where at first I had 
only 2. I have many chickens and geese, and a garden, and 
shall next year have an orchard, if I remain well, so that 
my wife and I are in good spirits." 
Upon lot No. 17 immediately north of that occupied by 
Pastorius, Jan Doeden built a house, and planted an orchard, 
which extended across the stream now coursing under present 
