St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Hanover, York County, Pennsylvania Volume 2 on CD
- SKU: 2189
- ISBN: 0897258266
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$59.95
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Description:
CD in PDF format. 2007.
Organized Lutheran and Reformed activities began in 1717 and by 1750 there were roughly 100 churches scattered across Pennsylvania serving Lutheran and Reformed congregations, in many cases serving both denominations in a single church. One of these early church congregations is now known as St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church, in Hanover, Pennsylvania. This church originated in the early1740s, following the itinerant work which the Rev. Johann Caspar Stöver did in the eastern part of the Conewago settlement area of southern Pennsylvania in 1735. In 1743 the Evantelische Lutherische Kanawagische Gemeinde church book was begun, including in it the dozen baptisms performed in 1741-1743 by Yost Mohr, a Lutheran layman.
Thanks to the congregation of St. Matthew's Evangelical Lutheran Church, Picton Press was able to digitize the church's early records. This CD contains five volumes of original handwritten records from 1741 to 1894. It also contains four volumes of typescript records from 1829 to 1894 which continue the early records for the period 1741 to 1831 which were translated and edited by The Rev. Frederick S. Weiser and published by Picton Press in 1994.
