Preface--Sadsbury Monthly Meeting, Sadsbury Township, birth records from the 1730s--Little Britain Monthly Meeting, Little Britain Township, birth records from the 1770s--St. James' Protestant Episcopal Church, Lancaster, birth records from the 1750s--Muddy Creek Lutheran Church, East Cocalico, baptismal register begun in 1733--Emmanuel Lutheran Church, Elizabeth Township, also called Old Warwick Lutheran Church, baptismal register begun in 1742--Holy Trinity Lutheran Church, Lancaster, baptismal register begun in 1730--Moravian Church, Lancaster, baptismal register begun in 1743--First Reformed Church, Lancaster, baptismal register begun in 1736,--Trinity Lutheran Church, New Holland, birth records from the 1730s--St. Mary's Roman Catholic Church, Lancaster, birth records from the 1770s--Zion Lutheran Church, Manheim, baptismal register begun in 1771--Muddy Creek Reformed Church, East Cocalico Township, birth records from the 1770s--Bangor Protestant Episcopal church, Caernarfon Township, birth records from the 1770s--Bergstrasse Lutheran Church, Ephrata Township, birth records from the 1740s--Rev. John Waldschmidt, personal register begun in 1751--Rev. John Cuthbertson, personal register, begun in 1751--Rev. Traugott Frederick Illing, personal register begun in 1779--Christ Lutheran Church, Elizabethtown, birth records from the 1770s--St. Michael's Lutheran Church, Strasburg, birth records from the 1750s--Swamp Reformed Church, West Cocalico Township, baptismal register opened in 1788--Zion Reformed Church, Elizabeth Township, also known as Reyer's Reformed Church, birth records from the 1760s--Blasser Reformed Church, West Donegal Township, birth records from the 1750s--White Oak Lutheran and Reformed Churches, Penn Township, baptismal register opened in 1754--Zeltenreich/Seltenreich Reformed Church, baptismal records from the 1740s--Maytown Reformed Church, East Donegal Township, birth records from the 1760s--St. Paul's Reformed Church, Manheim, baptismal register begun in 1771--Pequea Reformed Church, Strasburg Township, birth records from the 1740s--Maytown Lutheran Church, East Donegal Township, birth records from the 1760s--Cocalico Reformed Church, Ephrata, birth records from the 1740s--Rev. John Casper Stoever, Jr., personal register begun in 1729--Moravian Church, Lititz, baptismal register opened in 1744..
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.
Church Records: First United Methodist, Lancaster [Church records of First Methodist Episcopal Church now First United Methodist Church, Lancaster, Pa.]
