Murfreesborough, Huntington, Brownsville, and for some time at Franklin, Williamson co., where he conducted the "Western Weekly Review," and afterward taught a classical school near Nashville. During the civil war he was the leading writer for the "Press" at Nashville, and in 186o-'6 for the Nashville "Gazette." He published "Old Times, or Tennessee History" (1869).
PASCO, Samuel, senator, b. in London, England,
28 June, 1834. He was taken by his parents to
Prince Edward island when he was ten years old,
and thence to Charlestown, Mass., and was graduated at Harvard in 1858. He removed to Florida, and became principal of theacademyat Waukeenah,
at the same time studying law. Early in the civil war he enlisted in the 3d Florida infantry. He was wounded and taken prisoner at Missionary Ridge,
and was detained in Camp Morton at Indianapolis, Ind., till the close of the war. Returning to Florida, he was soon elected county clerk, and, resuming his law studies, was admitted to the bar, and practised at Monticello. In 1876 he was made chairman of the Democratic state executive committee. In
1880 he was a presidential elector, and in that year and 1884 he was proposed as the Democratic candidate for governor, but withdrew his name for the
sake of party harmony. He was president of the State constitutional convention of 1885, and in 1886 was elected to the legislature, and chosen
speaker. On 19 May, 1887, he was elected U. S. senator, and was re-elected for another term.
PASSACONAWAY, Indian chief, b. in southern
New Hampshire about 1580; d. near Litchfield, N. H., between 1665 and 1669. He was a Merrimack sachem, and the sagamore of Pamunkog, or
Pennacook, holding control over the tribes of
southern New Hampshire and part of Massachusetts.
When the whites first settled the country
he was at the head of a powerful confederacy, and
is said by some authorities to have conveyed to
John Wheelwright and his associates at Squamscut
(now Exeter), 17 May, 1629, a tract of land that
extended from Piscataqua to Merrimack rivers
westward, and from the line of Massachusetts,
thirty miles north; but this deed was subsequently
pronounced a forgery. In 1662, in answer to a petition
from Passaconaway, the general court of
Massachusetts granted him a tract of several hundred
acres near Litchfield, N. H. He invited the Indian
apostle John Eliot to take up his abode near his
tribe, so that they might be taught Christianity,
and avowed his own belief in God. He was
sagacious, and had a great reputation as a sorcerer.
He made a feast for his people about 1660, delivered
a farewell speech, and exhorted them to live
in peace with the English, since he had used his
arts as a “pow-wow” against them in vain.
PASSAVANT, William Alfred, clergyman, b. in Zelienople, Pa., 9 Oct., 1821 ; d. in Pittsburg, 3 June. 1894. He was graduated at Jefferson college,
and at the Lutheran theological seminary, Gettysburg, in 1842. In the latter year he was ordained to the ministrv. and he held pastorates in Baltimore, Md., in 1842-4. and Pittsburg, Pa., in 1844-'55. Afterward his time was occupied with editorial duties, but chiefly with works of philanthropy.
He was largely instrumental in the establishment of hospitals at Pittsburg, Pa., Milwaukee, Wis., Chicago and Jacksonville, 111., and orphanages at Rochester, Pa., Zelienople. Pa., and Mt. Vernon, N. Y. The hospitals were under his special supervision. He was the first to introduce the order of deaconesses in any hospital in this country in 1849, but, owing to a_ lack of support, his project failed. He was the leader of the movement that resulted in the establishment of Thiel college, Greenville, Pa., in 1870, and had since then been one of its trustees. Dr. Passavant published a large number of sermons, addresses, and reports. He was the founder of the "Missionary" in Pittsburg, Pa., in 1848, and its editor until it was merged, in 1861, into the "Lutheran and Missionary" in Philadelphia, and then for a number of years he was one of the editors of the combined periodical. In 1880 he founded the "Workman," a bi-weekly, in Pittsburg, Pa., of which he was editor until 1887.
PASSMOKE, Joseph Clarkson, clergyman, b. in Lancaster, Pa., 4 June, 1818; d. in Racine, Wis., 12 Aug., 1866. His education was obtained at
Flushing institute, N. Y., under Dr. William A. Muhlenberg. He was graduated at St. Paul's college, Long Island, in 1837, and during 1837-'8 he
was an instructor in Flushing institute. Then he studied law and was admitted to the bar in Lancaster, Pa., in 1842. He practised law for several years, part of the time in Vicksburg, Miss., but in 1844 accepted the chair of professor of English literature, philosophy, and political economy
in the College of St. James, Md. After due preparation for the ministry he was ordained deacon in the college chapel 18 June, 1848, by Bishop Whittingham, and priest, in Grace church,. Elk Ridge Landing, Md., 3 June. 1849, by the same bishop. He held his professorship till 1862
when he accepted a chair, with the same duties, in Racine college. Wis. From 1849 till 1862 he was rector of St. Mark's church, Washington
county, Md. He received the degree of S. T. D. from "Columbia in 1861. In connection with his professorship in Racine college he was rector of
St. John"s church, Elkhorn, Wis., in 1862-'6. Dr. Passmore published "Footprints, or Fugitive Poems" (Philadelphia, 1843): edited Bishop Butler's "Ethical Discourses," with an essay on the author's life and writings (1855) ; translated the "Prælectiones Aeademicæ" of the poet Kable for
the "True Catholic" (see Evans, Hugh Davey); and also contributed freely, in verse as well as prose, to church periodicals.
PASTORIUS, Francis Daniel, colonist, b. in Sommerhausen, Franconia, Germany, 26 Sept., 1651; d. in Germantown, Pa., 27 Sept., 1719. He was the son of a judge of Windsheim, educated in the classical and modern languages, and all the science of his age, and had entered upon the practice of law, when, having joined the sect of Pietists, he concerted with some of his co-religionists a plan for emigrating to Pennsylvania. They purchased
25,000 acres, but abandoned the intention of colonizing the land themselves. Pastorius, their agent, had formed the acquaintance of William Penn in
England, and became a convert to the Quaker doctrines. He was engaged by his associates, who in 1686 organized as the Frankfort land-company, and by some merchants of Crefeld, who had secured 15,000 acres, to conduct a colony of German and Dutch Mennonites and Quakers to Pennsylvania. He arrived on 20 June, 1683, and on 24 Oct. began to lay out Germantown. He was until his death a man of influence among the colonists, was its first bailiff, and devised the town-seal, which consisted of a clover on one of whose leaves was a vine, another a stalk of flax, and the third a weaver's spool with the motto “Vinum, Linum, et Textrium.” In 1687 he was elected a member of the assembly. In 1688 he was one of the signers of a protest to
the Friends' yearly meeting at Burlington against buying and selling slaves, or holding men in slavery, which was declared to be “an act irreconcilable with the precepts of the Christian religion.”
