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•period, the congregation was visited by the Rev'ds Dr. Heniy 

 Melchoir Muhlenberg, E. Shultz, N. Kurtz and others, for a 

 short time ; when the Rev. J. C. Helmuth, late from Europe, 

 was called and continued till 1779 ; in 1780, Rev. H. Muhlen- 

 berg, son of Dr. H. M. Muhlenberg, took charge of the con- 

 gregation, and was their pastor till 1815, when Rev. Dr. C. En- 

 dress succeeded him and continued till 1827. The present 

 pastor, the Rev. Dr. J. C. Baker, took charge of the congrega- 

 tion in 1828. Besides Dr. Baker's church, there is another in the 

 city, exclusively German, under the pastoral care of the Rev. 

 W. Beates. 



There are at present seven Lutheran ministers residing in 

 the county: Dr. John C.Baker, Rev'dsW. Beates, J. J. Strein, 

 S. Trumbauer, C. G. Frederick, C. Barnitz and L. G-erhart. — 

 They have 27 places of public worship. Here we v/ould add 

 the names of the Rev'ds A. C. Muhlenberg, Schroeter, Yung, 

 Ernst, Scriba, Riemenschneider, Rothraufi, Bevnheim, Sahm 

 and Mueller, all of whom had charge of congregations at dif- 

 ferent times. 



The German Reformed. — In the beginning of 1700, a 

 number of Reformed came to the province of Pennsylvania. 

 The Ferrees, members of the Reformed Walloon church of 

 Pelican, in the Lower Palatinate, left Europe for America, and 

 settled in this county about the year 1712.* With the Ferrees, 

 Isaac Le Lever came to this county and brought with him his 

 French Bible, which is still preserved by his descendants as a 

 precious relic. 



As early as 1717 or 1718, the Rev. P. Boehm of Witpen, one 

 of the oldest German Reformed preachers, had charge of a 

 German Reformed church. Rev. Boehm, the Rev. G. M. 

 Weiss, v/ho had charge of a congregation in Philadelphia,, 

 about the year 1724, and the Rev.H. Dorstius of Bucks county, 

 occasionally visited the pastorless German Reformed who had 

 settled in this coUnty prior to 1729. 



In 1727, a large number of Germans, among whom were 

 many German Reformed, came into this county: these were 

 the Dieffenderfer's and others, whose number was augmented 

 in 1731 by the arrival of the Bushongs,f Nehs, Schwartz^ 



*3ce pages 308 and 20. 

 f See page 271, 



