Evangelical Lutheran Curch of the Holy Trinity--Zion Evangelical Lutheran Church--St. John Evangelical Lutheran Church--Christ Evangelical Lutheran Church--Grace Evangelical Lutheran Church--St. Stephen's Evangelical Lutheran Church--Advent Evangelical Lutheran Church--St. Mark's Evangelical Lutheran Church--Mount Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church--Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Redeemer--Evangelical Lutheran Church of the Ascension--Word of Life Deaf Evangelical Lutheran Church--St. Matthew Church--Church of the Good Shepherd--Church of the Ascension--St. Paul Church--Church of the Holy Spirit--St. Peter's Church--Mount Calvary Church.
translated and edited by Debra D. Smith and Frederick S. Weiser.
ISBN
1558560092 (vol. 1)
1558562141 (vol. 2)
1558562834 (vol. 3)
Place of Publication
Apollo, PA
Publisher
Closson Press,
Date of Publication
1988-
Physical Description
v. <1-5 > : ill. ; 24 cm.
Notes
v. 1. 1730-1767 -- v. 2. 1767-1782 -- v. 3. 1782-1796 -- v. 4. 1797-1810 - v. 5 burial records
Summary
Volume 5 includes a long exposition detailing the following: 1) Location of cemeteries used by Trinity Members. This section describes and provides histories of 30 different cemeteries in south central Pennsylvania; 2) Miscellaneous notes on burials of Trinity's pastors; 3) Notable persons at Trinity; 4) Inscriptons of gravestones at the Trinity graveyard. Photos of gravestones in the Memorial Wall are also displayed; 5) Trinity gravestones at Landis Valley. Some of the old graveyard stones are stored at Landis Valley Museum. A listing along with some photographs are reproduced here; 6) There are several sections that attempt to accurately catalog all the graves at the old graveyard.
Documentary history of the Evangelical Lutheran ministerium of Pennsylvania and adjacent states. Proceedings of the annual conventions from 1748 to 1821. Compiled and translated from records in the archives and from the written protocols
Max Kade German-American Research Institute series
Notes
Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents
A quest for order : the German Reformed congregation, 1733-1775 -- Growth and disruption : Lutherans and Moravians -- The English churches of colonial Lancaster -- Religious pluralism in an eighteenth-century town -- Lancaster's churches in the new republic -- The transformation of charity, 1750-1820.
Summary
"Studies the development of religious congregations in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, from 1730 to 1820. Focuses on German Reformed, Lutherans, Moravians, Anglicans, and Presbyterians. Also examines how Roman Catholics, Jews, and African Americans were absorbed into this predominantly white Protestant society"--Provided by publisher.
History of the First Methodist Episcopal Church of the city of Lancaster, Pa., from 1807 to 1893 : with some account of earlier efforts to establish Methodism in Lancaster, also, an appendix containing a sketch of St. Paul's M.E. Church, by the pastor [C. Lee Gaul] and "Conestoga's" notes on the conference of 1855
Register of marriages and baptisms kept by Rev. Traugott Frederick Illing : In connection with the churches of St. Peter's (Lutheran) Middletown, and Caenarvon (Episcopal) Lancaster County, Penna
Historical discourse at the Sesqui-centennial of Christ Ev. Lutheran Church on the Tulpehocken, near Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pa., on Sunday, Sept. 3, 1893
Historical discourse at the Sesqui-Centennial of Christ Ev. Lutheran Church on the Tulpehocken, near Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pa., on Sunday, Sept. 3, 1893
