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j)orio(3, tho congregation wa.s visitod by tlio JIovMh Dr. Wcury 

 Molch(jir Muhlenberg, K. Shiiltz, N. Kurt/ and others, for a 

 shoillirne ; when the Rev. J. (J. Jielrniitfi, UjI'; from ICuropo, 

 was called and eontinued tilllTTO; in 17S0, Rev. II. Muhlen- 

 berg, son of Dr. 11. M. Muhlenberg, tof^k charge ol' the con- 

 gregation, and was their pastor till JHlo, v/hen Rev. Dr. C. En- 

 dress succeeded him and coritinuf;d till 1H27. 'i'he present 

 pastor, the Rev. Dr. J. (J. Baker, took charge of the corjgrega- 

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

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

 W. Jieates. 



There are at present seven Lutheran ministers residing in 

 the county: Dr. John C.Baker, Rev'ds W. B^ate;-!, J. J. Strein, 

 S. Trunjbauer, C. G. Frederick, C. Barnitz ai,d L. C';r/)art. — 

 They have 27 places of public worship, llf^re wa would add 

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

 Ernst, fScriba, Jiiernenschneider, 'JiothrauH', Ijernheirn, Sahm 

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

 ferent times. 



The German Reformi:d. — In the beginning of 1700, a 

 number of Reformed came to the province of Pennsylvania. 

 The Ferrecs, 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 Pvcv. P. Boehrn of Witpen, one 

 of the oldest German Reformed preachers, had charge of a 

 German Pi,eforrncd church. Rev. Boehrn, the Rev. G. M. 

 Weiss, who 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 I72f>. 



In 1727, a large number of Germans, among v.horn were 

 many Cjf^rrnan Reformed, came into this county: these were 

 the Dieffenderfer's and others, who.so number was augmented 

 in 17^31 by the arrival of the Bushongs,f Nehs, Schwartz, 



»8ce pa,'es .3U8 and 20. 

 tSee page 271. 



