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	Peter Muhlenberg - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (October 1, 1746 - October 1, 1807) was a Clergyman, a Major General of the Continental Army, and a United States Senator and Congressman from Pennsylvania.
		Muhlenberg was born to Anna and Henry Muhlenberg in Trappe, Pennsylvania and received a classical education from the Academy of Philadelphia.
		Muhlenberg was made a Brigadier General of the Virginia Line, and commanded that Brigade in Nathanael Greene's division at Valley Forge.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Peter_Muhlenberg (603 words)

	4Reference \|\| Peter Muhlenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (1746-1807) was a Clergyman, a Major General of the Continental Army, and a United States Senator and Congressman from Pennsylvania.
		Peter received a classical education from the Academy of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
		Muhlenberg was made a Brigadier General of the Virginia Line, and commanded that Brigade in Nathaniel Greene's division at Valley Forge.
	www.4reference.net /encyclopedias/wikipedia/Peter_Muhlenberg.html (601 words)

	Muhlenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		The close association of Muhlenberg's name with this turtle is a direct result of his giving a specimen to Schoepf, while Muhlenberg's discovery of the turtle in the first place is an indirect result of an odd sequence of events centering around the American Revolutionary War and a naturalist's obsession with obscure plants.
		Muhlenberg was but one of a number of famous clergymen-naturalist of the period (i.e., Gilbert White, John Bachman) who's contributions to the science of natural history were not fully appreciated until long after their death.
		Muhlenberg's daily entries are in combinations of colloquial German, Latin and English and are intermixed with faithfully recorded details of the weather, household and church business, the state of the garden, the contents of his mail, and the comings and goings of friends and colleagues.
	www.tortoisereserve.org /Research/Muhlenberg_Body2.html (2628 words)

	John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg
		John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg was born on October 1, 1747, in Trappe, Pennsylvania.
		Muhlenberg was apprenticed to a grocer in Lubeck.
		Muhlenberg was quickly commissioned a brigadier general in the Continental Army and was active in many battles.
	www.aoc.gov /cc/art/nsh/muhlenberg.cfm (259 words)

	American Biographies (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg was born in Trappe, Pennsylvania, the son of a prominent Lutheran pastor.
		Muhlenberg was also ordained in the Anglican Church and served a congregation of German immigrants in Virginia.
		Muhlenberg was promoted to brigadier general and given command of all the Virginia regiments, known as the Virginia Line, in the army.
	www.nps.gov /colo/Ythanout/Muhlenbergbio.htm (317 words)

	Pennsylvania People. Peter Muhlenberg. Level 2 (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg was born in Trappe, Pa. on October 1, 1746.
		In January 1775 Peter was elected the Chairman of the Committee of Correspondence for Dunmore County.
		Peter was elected to the Seventh session of Congress as a Senator.
	www.cbsd.org /pennsylvaniapeople/level2_biographies/Level_2_biographies/peter_muhlenberg_level_2.htm (4536 words)

	John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (from Muhlenberg family) -- Britannica Student Encyclopedia
		Gabriel was the heavenly messenger sent to Daniel to explain the vision of the ram and the he-goat and to communicate the prediction of the Seventy Weeks.
		He was also employed to announce the birth of John the Baptist to Zechariah and to announce the birth of Jesus to the Virgin Mary.
		John Peter Gabriel (1746–1807) served as a general during the American Revolution and later was elected to Congress.
	www.britannica.com /ebi/article-204999 (738 words)

	Cazoo.org: German-American Cultural Center
		Muhlenberg College in Allentown, Pennsylvania, was named in honor of a family that played an extraordinary role in American history.
		Here, "it was due to Muhlenberg and a few others that the Germans did not stand aside in those months in which the spirit of freedom took root in Virginia." He was subsequently always in the forefront of the anti-colonialist movement.
		Muhlenberg was active in the German Society of Pennsylvania (founded in 1774) whose purpose was to aid poor and exploited German immigrants.
	www.cazoo.org /library/muhlenberg.html (543 words)

	John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg (1746-1807), University of Pennsylvania Archives
		John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg was born in Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, the son of Rev. Henry M. Muhlenberg and Mary Weiser, and a brother of Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg.
		Thus John Peter came to be apprenticed to a merchant in Lubeck.
		Shortly thereafter, Muhlenberg, as an anti-Federalist, was elected a Pennsylvania representative to the U.S. Congress, serving from 1789 to 1795 and again from 1799 to 1801.
	www.archives.upenn.edu /histy/features/1700s/people/muhlenberg_johnpg.html (605 words)

	Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, Colonel, United States Army & Member of Congress
		Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg, who was interred in Arlington National Cemetery in January 1980, was the great-great grandson of Major General John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, whose statue is in the Rotunda of the Capital, Washington, D.
		John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg's brother was Frederick Augustus
		He was the great-great-grandson of Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg and the great-great-grandnephew of John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, a Representative from Pennsylvania; He was born in Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, September 25, 1887 and attended the public schools.
	www.arlingtoncemetery.net /famuhl.htm (330 words)

	WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG - LoveToKnow Article on WILLIAM AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		American philanthropist and Protestant Episcopal clergyman, great-grandson of H. Muhlenberg and grandson of F. Muhlenberg, was born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, on the 16th of September 1796.
		In the St Johnland cemetery is the grave of Dr Muhlenberg, who died on the 8th of April 1877 in St Lukes Hospital, New York City.
		His ideal of the church was that it was missionary and evangelical as well as catholic with formal government and ritual; hence he called himself an evangelical Catholic and wrote the Evangelical Catholic Papers, which were collected and published by Anne Ayres in 1875-1877.
	24.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MU/MUHLENBERG_WILLIAM_AUGUSTUS.htm (491 words)

	HENRY MELCHIOR MUHLENBERG - LoveToKnow Article on HENRY MELCHIOR MUHLENBERG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In 1742, in reply to a call from the Lutheran churches of Pennsylvania, he went to Philadelphia, and was joined from time to time, especially in 1745, by students from Halle.
		Muhlenberg occupied himself more particularly with the congregation at New Providence~ (now Trappe), though he was practically overseer of all the Lutheran churches from New York to Maryland.
		Muhlenberg married in 1745 Anna Maria Weiser, daughter of J. Conrad Weiser, a well-known Indian interpreter, and herself said to have had Indian blood in her veins; by her he had eleven children.
	22.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MU/MUHLENBERG_HENRY_MELCHIOR.htm (346 words)

	Mühlenberg, Heinrich Melchior on Encyclopedia.com (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, 1746-1807, American clergyman, Revolutionary officer, and legislator, eldest son of Heinrich, was born in Trappe, Pa., and studied at Halle.
		Although he was raised a Lutheran and studied for the Lutheran ministry, he was ordained an Episcopalian to insure his legal status as a clergyman in Woodstock, Va. In 1776 he left his church in Woodstock to raise and lead a regiment in the American Revolution.
		Muhlenberg was a delegate (1779-80) to the Continental Congress and a member (1789-97) of the House of Representatives, twice serving as speaker.
	www.encyclopedia.com /html/M/MuhlnbrgH1.asp (398 words)

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		Muhlenberg recorded his own observations on the shared trauma of the divided civilian community and the two armies.
		Known simply as “Peter,” the younger Muhlenberg was educated at the Academy of Philadelphia and at Halle, in Germany.
		After the war, Peter Muhlenberg returned to Pennsylvania, where he was elected first to the Supreme Executive Council and, later, in the 1790s, to the federal Congress.
	www.explorepahistory.com /hmarker.php?markerId=565 (867 words)

	Henry Melchior Muhlenberg
		Muhlenberg was married, 23 April, 1745, to a daughter of J. Conrad Weiser, of Tulpehoken, the well-known Indian interpreter.
		Muhlenberg was the father of eleven children.--His son, John Peter Gabriel, patriot, born in Trappe, Pennsylvania, 1 October, 1746 ; died near Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1 October, 1807, was sent when he was sixteen years of age, with his two brothers, to be educated in Germany.
		See "Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg als Botaniker," by Professor John M. Maisch (New York, 1886).--Gotthilf's son, Henry Augustus, clergyman, born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania, 13 May, 1782; died in Reading, Pennsylvania, 12 August, 1844, was educated chiefly by his father, studied theology, and was ordained pastor of Trinity Lutheran church, Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1802.
	www.virtualology.com /henrymelchiormuhlenberg (2967 words)

	Pennsylvania People. Peter Muhlenberg. Level 1
		Peter Muhlenberg was a clergyman who became a general in the Revolutionary Army.
		Peter’s mother, Anna Maria, was the daughter of Conrad Weiser.
		John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg was the oldest child in his family.
	www.cbsd.org /pennsylvaniapeople/level1_biographies/Biographies_Level_1/peter_muhlenberg_level_1.htm (993 words)

	JOHN PETER GABRIEL MUHLENBERG - LoveToKnow Article on JOHN PETER GABRIEL MUHLENBERG (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		(1746-1807), American preacher and soldier, son of H. Muhlenberg (q.v.), was born at Trappe, Pennsylvania, on the 1st of October 1746.
		On the 29th of April 1796, as chairman of the committee of the whole, he cast the deciding vote for the laws necessary to carry out Jays treaty.
		Gotthilfs son, HENRY AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG (1782-1844), was pastor of a Lutheran Church in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1802-1828, was a Democratic representative in Congress in 1829 1838, and was United States minister to Austria in 1838-1840.
	23.1911encyclopedia.org /M/MU/MUHLENBERG_JOHN_PETER_GABRIEL.htm (404 words)

	A Brief History of Muhlenberg College
		Muhlenberg College is an independent, undergraduate, coeducational institution affiliated with the Evangelical Lutheran Church in America.
		The name Muhlenberg College was adopted in honor of the "patriarch" of the Lutheran Church in America, Henry Melchior Muhlenberg.
		General John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg wintered at Valley Forge with George Washington; Frederick Augustus Muhlenberg was the first speaker of the United States House of Representatives; and Henry Ernst Muhlenberg was one of the most eminent early American scientists and the first President of Franklin College, now Franklin and Marshall College.
	www.muhlenberg.edu /muhlinfo/history.html (292 words)

	Vermont in the Civil War - First Vermont Brigade
		John Van Metre was an Indian trader, who accompanied the Delaware Indians in a war party against the Catawbas, but the Catawbas, anticipating the attack, surprised and defeated the Delawares in a battle near where the courthouse of Pendleton now stands.
		John Van Metre escaped and returned to New York, but he was so impressed with the beauty and fertility of the lands on the South Branch bottom, in Hardy County, that he advised his sons to secure lands and locate there.
		In 1730 it is a matter of history that John and Isaac Van Metre, brothers, obtained from Governor Gooch, of Virginia, a warrant for 40,000 acres of land, to be located west of the mountains.
	vermontcivilwar.org /units/1bgd/heroine/note.php (811 words)

	Henry A. P. Muhlenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Henry Augustus Philip Muhlenberg was born in Lancaster, Pennsylvania on May 13, 1782.
		Henry was the son of Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg and Mary Catherine Hall Muhlenberg.
		Muhlenberg was elected to the United States House of Representatives in 1828 as a Jacksonian Democrat.
	www.worldhistory.com /wiki/H/Henry-A.-P.-Muhlenberg.htm (266 words)

	MUHLENBERG, JOHN PETER GABRIEL (17461807) - Encyclopedia Britannica - MUHLENBERG, JOHN PETER GABRIEL (17461807) - ... (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		MUHLENBERG, JOHN PETER GABRIEL (17461807), American preacher and soldier, son of H. Muhlenberg (q.v.), was born at Trappe,
		MUHLENBERG (1750-1801), became his father's assistant in Philadelphia in 1770; was pastor of the Christ (or Swamp) German Lutheran Church of New
		Gotthilf's son, HENRY AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG (1782-1844), was pastor of a Lutheran Church in Reading, Pennsylvania, in 1802-1828, was a Democratic representative in Congress in 1829-1838, and was United States minister to Austria in 1838-184o.
	www.jcsm.org /StudyCenter/Encyclopedia_Britannica/MOS_NAN/MUHLENBERG_JOHN_PETER_GABRIEL_.html (641 words)

	Fighting Words - Christian History & Biography - ChristianityTodayLibrary.com
		Though Peter Muhlenberg had preached regularly for the cause of the American colonists, he decided that, in his last sermon, he would have to do something unusual to drive home his point.
		Muhlenberg had other ideas and escaped to join the army before returning to Philadelphia in 1767 to study for the ministry under his father.
		Muhlenberg was beloved by his congregation and quickly became a leader in the community.
	www.ctlibrary.com /4144 (431 words)

	Peter Muhlenberg (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		In early 1777 the Eighth was sent north to Washington's main army.
		Muhlenberg was made a General of the Virginia Line and commanded Brigade in Nathanael Greene 's division at Valley Forge.
		After Monmouth most of the Virginia was sent to the far south while Muhlenberg was assigned to head up the of Virginia using mainly militia units.
	www.freeglossary.com /Peter_Muhlenberg (988 words)

	The Times Herald - News - 06/27/2005 - Speaker helps save House (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-08)
		Muhlenberg served as a member of the Continental Congress and was the first signer of the Bill of Rights to the U.S. Constitution in 1789.
		In the U.S. Congress, Muhlenberg cast the tie-breaking vote in 1796 as chairman of a House committee to ratify the Jay Treaty.
		Muhlenberg was stabbed in Philadelphia by his brother-in-law over his vote, but survived and lived until 1801, Muhlenberg died in Lancaster while serving as Receiver General of the Pennsylvania Land Office.
	www.timesherald.com /site/news.cfm?newsid=14766756&BRD=1672&PAG=461&dept_id=33380&rfi=6 (1030 words)

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		There was only a handful of Lutheran ministers in the colonies, though, and not until 1772 when John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg accepted a call to the Valley did a Lutheran pastor live in the Valley.
		Harr corresponded with Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, the patriarch of Lutheranism in America and the father of Peter Muhlenberg.
		John S. Bowman recalled in an affidavit supporting the claims suit that "in 1862 when they [the Northern troops] first got hold of it was very good -- but when they got through with it [it] was very much dilapidated.
	www.user.shentel.net /stpaul/html/Committees.html (2164 words)

	Commentary from
		Pastor Muhlenberg and 300 men from his congregation left the church that day to form “The Muhlenberg Brigade.” Pastor Muhlenberg distinguished himself in the service of his country and left the military in 1783 a Major General.
		Pastor Muhlenberg’s statue is displayed in the United States Capitol to this day, in honor of Pennsylvania and his role in our nation’s fight for independence.
		The verse from Ecclesiastes Pastor Muhlenberg quoted in his sermon that day carries a lesson for us to remember today – there is a time for every purpose under heaven.
	www.house.gov /pitts/press/commentary/030327c-muhlenberg.htm (681 words)

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