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	Lutheran Roots in America Video Script
		Muhlenberg came to try to make some sense and order out of this religious fervor and ferment and chicanery that was going on.
		Pastor Muhlenberg's favorite motto was the Latin phrase, "ecclesia plantanda," which means, "the church must be planted." At the time of Muhlenberg's death Lutheran congregations were growing as fast as the population of the new nation of the United States of America.
		He spoke in his journals of church organization as "the external scaffolding of the spiritual edifice." He understood that church organization was not as an end in itself; organization, he saw, was to serve the purposes of the church.
	www.elca.org /mosaic/mosaic/spring02script.html (3818 words)

	F&M College: College Archives: College Presidents
		G.H.E. or Henry Muhlenberg was born on November 17, 1753 in New Providence (Trappe) Pa, the son of noted Lutheran minister Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg.
		In 1780 Muhlenberg became pastor of Trinity Lutheran Church in Lancaster and was instrumental in the ecumenical formation of a German College in Lancaster.
		Henry Harbaugh Apple was born Nov. 8, 1869 in Mercersburg, PA, the son of Thomas Gilmore Apple (F&M President 1877-1889).
	library.fandm.edu /archives/collegepresidents.html (2827 words)

	Historical Prints - Online Shop
		Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg was born in Einbeck, Germany in 1711.
		Muhlenberg believed that churches should be free from the government jurisdiction that had been practiced in other countries.
		Two of Muhlenberg's sons served high positions in the young America-one as a general in the War of Independence and one in the new American government.
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	Revs. Stoever and Muhlenberg: Thoughts on Record-Keeping
		However, I believe that his contribution to the establishment of a formal structure for the fledgling Lutheran Church in the Colonies was invaluable.
		Muhlenberg arrived in Philadelphia from Halle, Germany in 1742, and this was part of his early notes as he became acquainted with the Lutherans in Pennsylvania.
		Yes, I suppose he may have been difficult and defensive when reminded of the comparison with Muhlenberg, but I submit to you that the Rev. John Casper STOEVER was popular with the people then and now because "he got it".
	www.rootsweb.com /~paberks/library/Record-Keeping.html (1378 words)

	pgs. 122-129, Volume 1; Southern New York
		Descendants of henry Melchoir Muhlenburg, the Pennsylvania minister, are numerous, and among them are members of the Cammann family.
		After the middle of the seventeenth century the name is no longer found on rolls of nobles of the empire, and the family never made any attempt to have their title acknowledged and entered by the imperial court of heraldry in Vienna.
		(I) Rev. Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, immigrant ancestor of the family of that name, as well as of the branch of the Cammann family here dealt with, was born at Eimbeck, in the kingdom of Hanover, Germany, September 6, 1711, died at Trappe, Pennsylvania, October 7, 1787, aged seventy-six years.
	www.usgennet.org /usa/topic/historical/southernnewyork/s_ny_19.htm (4105 words)

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		Henry Melchior Muhlenberg had immigrated to Pennsylvania from his birthplace in the German principality of Hanover in 1742.
		In the 1770s Muhlenberg left Philadelphia to minister to the growing Lutheran population in the Perkiomen Valley, and to distance himself from the heated disagreements within Philadelphia’s Lutheran community.
		Muhlenberg recorded his own observations on the shared trauma of the divided civilian community and the two armies.
	www.explorepahistory.com /hmarker.php?markerId=565 (867 words)

	Sand Hill Church - Enderlein Connection
		In America Rev. Enderlein became closely associated with Rev. Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, now referred to as the Father of the Lutheran Church in America.
		Muhlenberg served at Trappe, Pa. covering a congregational area from Germantown to Pottstown, Pa. Rev.
		Fairly clear evidence exists that Rev. Enderlein preached in the area of the Nockamixon congregation as early as 1761, at which time the congregation was without a building, making it necessary to hold church services in a barn, until several years later when Nockamixon had a house of public worship.
	members.tripod.com /JnCass/koppen.htm (1406 words)

	wfn.org \| ELCA's Muhlenberg College Celebrates 150th Year (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Muhlenberg is one of 28 college and universities of the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
		On May 21, 1867 the institution was taken over by the Lutheran Church and christened Muhlenberg college, named for Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, a patriarch of the Lutheran church in America.
		Muhlenberg hopes to garner local, regional and national media attention with "Muhlenberg Minutes," a series of 60-second spots to air on local cable stations, CNN, ESPN and USA Networks in1998.
	www.wfn.org /1997/09/msg00137.html (200 words)

	Grim (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Father Muhlenberg, the venerable Lutheran minister, residing at Philadelphia, frequently came to his house on his missionary travels, to give his children catechetical instructions.
		Catharine was married to Jacob Grim, of Macungie, Lehigh County, and bore him 11 children, eight sons and three daughters.
		Henry was engaged in the commission business in Philadelphia.
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	wfn.org \| Pennsylvania Lutherans Celebrate 250th Anniversary
		The festivities, which attracted more than 235 people to Muhlenberg College here Aug. 7-9, used lectures, music and drama to re-cast Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg's credo "the church must be planted" as "roots for new plantings." Muhlenberg is one of 28 colleges associated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
		I ask you: is 'the Muhlenberg tradition' really a code-word, a rallying point for former United Lutheran Church in America members who take their liturgy straight, who deplore the current state of Fortress Press, and who miss going to the church house in New York?
		Darrell H. Jodock of Muhlenberg College; Susan W. McArver of Lutheran Southern Seminary, Columbia, S.C.; and Cynthia A. Jurrison of the Lutheran School of Theology at Chicago.
	www.wfn.org /1998/08/msg00222.html (551 words)

	Historical Committee & Archives of the Mennonite Church
		Henry Lederach's will of 1799 mentions "My Book" and tells how son John is to pay off the real estate in equal share to his five sisters and one brother.
		Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the eminent Lutheran pastor at Trappe, Pennsylvania, records in his journal the death and funeral of a pious widow, 90-year-old Ann Marie Reiff, who was buried January 8, 1753.
		And in 1939 Mary Henry Ziegler (1866-1944) donated a tract of land in Bucks County, adjoining her fruit farm in Montgomery County, to the rural Finland mission to build a meetinghouse.
	www.mcusa-archives.org /MHB/Hershey.html (4968 words)

	Archives: Queries from December 1997
		Query: Lutheran Minister Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg and son, John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, ministered in Pennsylvania and Virginia through much of the mid to late 1700s.
		From Erlangen also came Conrad Roller, the associate and friend of Muhlenberg (Is this Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg the famous Lutheran minister?) A Conrad Roller, born Feb 1680 in Kuppingen, Wurttenburg, married Magdelana Funck and died Jan 1742.
		Query: Henry MILLER was an apprentice of Squire Boone (father of Daniel Boone) in Exeter PA. Who were paents and siblings of Henry MILLER (could be MUELLER).
	www.rootsweb.com /~paberks/Archives/query/1996-1999/q012.html (3515 words)

	Rev. Enderlein - The Pioneer
		Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, the patriarch and founder of the American Lutheran Church.
		Muhlenberg came to America from Halle, Germany, in 1742.
		Muhlenberg wrote regular reports to Halle, Germany to the offices who had sent him to America.
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	Biographies from Historical and Biographical Annals by Morton Montgomery
		Adam Weigley, born at Reamstown, Lancaster Co., Pa., in 1744, removed to White Marsh, Montgomery Co., Pa. He married in 1770 Hannah Eva Walter, who was born in Cocalico township, Lancaster Co., Pa., and who survived her husband several years, dying in 1840, near Newmanstown, Lebanon county.
		John, Henry, Frank, Elizabeth and Samuel S. spent their lives on the old homestead.
		Their children were: Julia, who died unmarried; Emanuel; Henry, m.
	www.rootsweb.com /~paberks/books/montgomery/w05.html (7908 words)

	Early Evangelical Lutheran Heroes in America
		Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg (founder, first North American Lutheran synod) German born (1711) and educated, Muhlenberg entered the university theological seminary at Gottingen in 1737.
		There he came under the influence of Baron Von Munchausen, was ordained in 1739, and in 1741 asked to become a missionary "to the scattered Lutherans in Pennsylvania." He entered the colonies at Charleston, S.C., in 1742 and before going to Pennsylvania visited Lutheran ministries there and in Georgia.
		Muhlenberg published a collection of hymns and prayers and his model constitution for congregations provided for unity and cohesion as they carried out his motto "Ecclesia Plantanda" (The Church must be planted).
	www.holytrinitynewrochelle.org /yourti17417.html (2098 words)

	Pennsylvania Dutch History, Genealogy and Culture
		The younger Muhlenberg was elected Speaker of the House of Representatives.
		He was speaking about the life and work of Henry Stiegel but we can apply the text and its meaning to all those who had a share in bvilding the Emanuel congregation during the 250 years.
		1762 - "Baron" Henry W. Stiegel served as the delegate from this congregation to the convention of the Ministerium of Pennsylvania at Philadelphia.
	www.horseshoe.cc /pennadutch/religion/churches/emanuel.htm (10837 words)

	Penn State Harrisburg: News Releases (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-09-07)
		Nancy Kettering Frye, a 1991 graduate and resident of Lebanon, Pa., was honored at the 29th annual awards banquet on the Concordia Seminary campus in St. Louis.
		Frye's article, "Trusting in Providence: Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, the Year 1776," is a story of Muhlenberg's actions in trying times.
		Frye visited Muhlenberg's home, church, and grave and closely examined his journals to write the article which appeared in Der Reggeboge (The Rainbow), a publication of the Pennsylvania German Society, in 2002.
	www.hbg.psu.edu /news/frye.html (166 words)

	Hans George Reiff
		He is supposed to have immigrated in 1717 with the three sons of his cousin Joseph.
		Bean (History of Montgomery County) reports that Hans George Reiff purchased 200 acres off Henry Pennepacker in 1724 in the southern corner of now Lower Salford twp, barely a mile from the town of Skippack.
		A Samuel Powell received a large grant in the same neighborhood in 1721, and Bean reports that Powell subsequently sold parts of this land to two of Hans George Reiff’s sons – Jacob bought 546 acres in 1727, and George bought 160 acres of this, on which they settled and made their improvements.
	home.comcast.net /~varvel/genealogy/reiff/george.htm (1286 words)

	Valley Forge Convention and Visitors Bureau
		He is the son of Rev. Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, the Patriarch of Lutheranism in America.
		The elder Muhlenberg was born in Einbech in Hanover, Germany in 1742 and came to the United States and settled in Trappe, Pennsylvania.
		The present sanctuary, built in 1743 by Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, is the oldest unchanged Lutheran church in America.
	www.valleyforge.org /press/index.cfm?action=Article&ArticleID=23 (1200 words)

	Trinity Lutheran Church of City of Reading, PA
		When the Towne of Reading was laid out in 1748, the Rev. Tobias Wagner, pastor of the large Tulpehocken congregation and officiant at the marriage of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg to Ann Marie Weiser, began getting Lutherans together for services at Conrad Weiser's Trading Post.
		The congregation petitioned for admittance into the Ministerium of Pennsylvania, and Dr. H.M. Muhlenberg, its president, officiated and preached the first sermon here on October 15, 1752.
		Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, patriarch of the Lutheran Church in America and moving force behind the founding of the Pennsylvania Ministerium in 1748.
	oldtrinitylutheran.homestead.com /History2.html (440 words)

	List of Lutherans - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg (1711-1787), pastor and church organizer.
		John Peter Muhlenberg (1711-1787) pastor, U.S. Congressman, Brigadier General in the *Continental Army during the American Revolution.
		Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg (1750-1801), Ordained a Lutheran minister in Pennsylvania, he went on to become a member of the Continental Congress and, after the Constitution went into effect, served as the Speaker of the House during the First and Third Congresses.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/List_of_Lutherans (3438 words)

	Religion and the American Revolution (Religion and the Founding of the American Republic, Library of Congress ...
		Peter Muhlenberg (1746-1807) was the prime example of a "fighting parson" during the Revolutionary War.
		The eldest son of the Lutheran patriarch Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, young Muhlenberg at the conclusion of a sermon in January 1776 to his congregation in Woodstock, Virginia, threw off his clerical robes to reveal the uniform of a Virginia militia officer.
		Having served with distinction throughout the war, Muhlenberg commanded a brigade that successfully stormed the British lines at Yorktown.
	www.loc.gov /exhibits/religion/rel03.html (1927 words)

	Acolytes
		The Muhlenberg's played a key role both in the establishment of the Lutheran Church in Colonial America and in the establishment of the United States as a nation.
		Pastor Muhlenberg described the typical Lutheran group of the 1740s as being without a church building, or if they did have a building it was of logs with a dirt floor and no pastor.
		Despite all this adversity, Pastor Muhlenberg estimated that there were just 20,000 Lutherans in Pennsylvania in 1740, but by the end of the Revolution there were over 75,000.
	www.huffschurch.com /History.html (5160 words)

	Historical Prints - Online Shop
		All "Heroes of the Faith" prints are matted with fl mat board and are ready to frame.
		Central to the print is Reverend Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, D.D., and surrounding him are several other key Lutheran figures of the past.
		Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, D.D. was an initial leader among American Lutherans.
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	Lutherans in 19th and 20th Century Indiana
		The majority of the German Lutherans who migrated to the American Colonies settled in Pennsylvania, although there were significant numbers who found their way to South Carolina, New Jersey and Delaware.
		Pastor Muhlenberg immigrated to Philadelphia in 1742 and spent his life traveling throughout the colonies, organizing small groups of Lutherans into congregations.
		In 1748, Muhlenberg and 50 Lutheran pastors established the Synod of Pennsylvania.
	www.connerprairie.org /historyonline/lutherans.html (2445 words)

	Lutheranism, Lutheran Church
		Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg organized the first synod of Lutherans on American soil.
		In 1742 Pastor Henry Melchior Muhlenberg arrived from Germany and soon founded (1748) the first Lutheran synod in North America.
		After the American Revolution (1775-1783), each successive group of Lutheran immigrants founded its own churches and synods and conducted its services in the language of its country of origin.
	mb-soft.com /believe/text/lutheran.htm (5066 words)

	Manuscripts Guide -- F
		Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg's Knowledge and Practice of Medicine.
		Enclosed also is a memoir, Rough Record of Circumstances andc on Mt. Hamilton During the Construction of the Lick Observatory, 15 Nov. 1880 (8 pp.); and pay lists for workmen, 1880 81.
		Correspondence with Alexander Dallas Bache, Louis Agassiz, Joseph Henry, and Titian R. Peale on general scientific topics although with Bache personal and family matters were discussed.
	www.amphilsoc.org /library/mole/f.htm (3312 words)

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