Danish West Indies in 1739, and Pennsylvania where he arrived in 1741, after landing in New York. A good part of the two years in America he resided in Philadelphia, from which point he visited or estab- lished many, if not all, of the well known Moravian settlements in Pennsylvania ; and it was during

, West Reading, Pa., who spoke in place of Judge Benjamin C. Atlee, absent through illness, knew his subject well, and told many interesting stories about Sutter's life in Lititz. In his monograph on Sutter, printed in our Proceedings in 1913 (see Vol. XVII, p. 279), Rev. Landis expressed a hope which he

, Confirmations and Deaths, began by Frederick Theodore (?) Mel- sheimer, Evangelical Lutheran Preacher, Beckstein (Paxtang), the 26th day of April, A.D. 1783." See History of the Evangelical Lutheran Synod of East Pennsylvania, 1892, p. 122. �Frederick Valentine Melsheimer By DR. STUART W. FROST It is an honor