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look out, and are upon their guard ; This Article, my beloved, you will remember the more in your hearts, because you know yourselves, the Country & respective places wherein you dwell are frequented enough by such Schismaticks & false Prophets &c. FRIEDERICH MICHAEL ZIEGENHAGEN.
Kensington the 13th of Sept
1744.
PHILADA ss. Christian Grussold of the City of Philadelphia in the Province of Pennsylvania Tradesman and the Revd Peter Brunholtz Clerk Minister of the German Lutheran Congregations in Philada aforesaid & Germantown came before me William Al- len Esqr one of his Majestie's Justices of the Peace for the City and County of Philada aforesaid and severally made Oath on the holy Evangelists to the purport and effect following (that is to say) The said Christian Grussold saith that he is by birth a German, and that he was employed to translate some attestations & Extracts out of Two Letters, which said attestations & Extracts being now produced unto him, he saith, that the foregoing Writing on the other side of this Paper is a true translation thereof out of the high German language according to the best of his Skill & knowledge. The other Dept Peter Brunnholtz saith that he received & brought over the original Letters (so in part translated by the said Christian Grussold) from Friederigh Michael Ziegenhagen mentioned in the foregoing Writing, that to the best of his knowledge & belief the said foregoing Writing is a true translation of the said attestations & of the Extracts out of the said Letters ; He further saith that he knows and is well acquainted with the respective hand writings of Samuel Urles- perger (also mentioned in the foregoing Writing) as also of the said Gotthilf August Francke & Friederigh Michael Ziegenhagen, & the said original Attestions (of which the foregoing attesta- tions are a translation) being produced unto him, he saith that he verily believes the name Samuel Urlesperger subscribed there- to is the proper hand writing of the sd Samnel Urlesperger ; And the said Two original Letters (of which the Extracts beforemen- tioned are in part a translation) being also produced to the said
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Dept he saith that he verily believes the names Gotthilf August Francke, and Friederigh Michael Ziegenhagen respectively subscribed to the said Letters are the respective proper hand writings of the said Gotthilf August Francke & Fried righ Michael Ziegenhagen.
PETER BRUNHOLTZ
Sworn before me the 28th Day of CHRISTIAN GRASSC LD
August 1746. WILL ALLEN, Recorder.
PETITION AGAINST THE SAME.
To his Excellency the Honourable GEORGE CLINTON captain Generall and Governour in Chief of the province of New York and territories thereon depending in America Vice Admirall of the same and Admirall of the White Squadron of his Majesties Fleet.
The humble Petition of Michael Christian Knoll the officiating Minister over and of severall of the Congregation of the protestant Lutheran Church of Beekmans precinct in Dutches County whose names are under written.
SHEWETH
That your Excellency on a former petition was pleased by advice of his Majesties Councill to Inhibit one Johann Lodwick Hoofgoed from Excercising the office and Duty of a Minister untill he should have made it appear to your Excellency in Councill by proper and Authentick Vouchers that he had been regularly Ordained.
That Notwithstanding the said Hoofgoed had been served with a Copy of your Excellencys said Order of Inhibition yet he hath taken upon himself and still doth Continue to Execute the office of a priest in Orders and is Now at Beekmans precinct in Dutches County where he Continues to preach Baptize and Administer the Sacraments without any warrant or Authority for so Doing- That his Doctrines which he preaches and Incul- cates are founded on principles altogether unorthodox and tending to enthusiasm and Sedition in the Church, part of whose
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members by his influence are already Divided and others waver- ing in the true Received Approved and Long Established Articles of faith and must in the End if no stop be put to it tend to Divide the Little flock under the care and instruction of the said Michael Christian Knoll their Right and Lawfully Ordained Pastor. May it therefore please your Excellency in your tender Consideration for the petitioners strictly to Charge the said Johan Lodwick Hoofgood that he Desist from Excercising the Office of a Minister till he shall produce to your Excellency proper Credentialls of his being Duly Qualified and Admitted into that Office by Lawfull Authority and shall obtain Your Excellencys Lycence for that purpose.
Fishkill y 5th of June And the petitioners (as in Duty Bound)
17-19. shall ever pray for Your Excellency-
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*.* The Clergyman above objected to was commissioned by Gov. Clinton 24 Feb., 1748.
LITRA A.
Most Reverend most Learned and most Honoured Pastor.
Your most reverend & Honoured Letter Missive of the 31st of Angust last (which I have this day received) has been the more agreeable unto me as it gave me the Honour of your most Reverend acquaintance and an opportunity to give a Testimony of Truth in the Cause you mention to me which I hope will be of service to the Church.
It is not known to me (who by Grace am in the 16th year of my assistance in our Ducal Consistory) Neither is known to my Colleagues here (with most part of whom I have had occasion to discourse & to Communicate your letter to) either in earlier or
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later years that here has been a Minister of the Gospel who Call'd himself by the name of John Ludwig Hofguth or of any of the Circumstances which you have been pleased to write to us of' So that the whole of it seems to Turn out a fallacious Conterfeit & a fait thing of him.
To demonstrate this more especially I have the Honr to assure your most Reverence, That at Great Ingersheim (a village in our Diocese of Bietigheim & distant but five Miles from Stuttgard) There never was known an Especial, But at all times only has had a Simple Minister of a village, For the Office of Especial, Deacon or Super-Intendant (which are Synonymous) Has always been Fix'd at Bietigheim having jurisdiction of the whole Dioces of Bietigheim as over the office of minister of Great-Ingersheim, which belongs to this Diocese, But in Both Places & throughout all the Lands of this Dukedom never has been known a minister of that name in the memory of man.
What that man alledges farther, That he is moved wholly for the sake of Strenghning Preaching against the Roman Catholicks, That a lesser Office was to have been given to him by His Serene highness (our Duke) But that he refused to accept of it, Stands also on an audacious & slight foundation, Inasmuch as we have reason to thank God Almighty for the Continuance of his Grace in Preserving the Ancient Ordinances of our Church in the Dukedom of Wurtemburg and with Humble Thanks praise the Magnanimity of our most Precious Princes that at this Time no such Thing in any manner of way is likely to prevail again.
Upon as slight a foundation stands his feigned Pretence that a pasport was given to him by the Minister of Great Ingersheim whom he calls M' Faber & by the sherrif of that Place, For by our Ordinances it is not in the Power of these Officials to Grant such pasports, It is a reserve to the Political ministers of the State, and in some Cases such as this It is a perquisite due only to the Chancellor.
Not to mention that the Minister at Great Ingersheim who has been there for many years & is actually still in that Office Is not named Mr. Faber But is nam'd Mr. Gallus Jacob Weiser. And though it is not Customary to give written Vocations unto our Stipendarys, who are yet obligated even without 'em, Still
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Official letters are always Granted unto the Especials, Therefore if h s words of being dismis'd with honour were True, or if in suc ! a Case he had decently discover'd his Intentions, to seek his ortune in other Countrys, Letters of Credentials necessary to tie Circumstances of his Case wou'd not have been Wanting, in the manner of which we have sufficient Examples in Cases of this nature.
Moreover if I Consider the letters of the Magistry which he says to have forgot, The publick & Private Preaching of his against an Express Prohibition, The making use of Doctrines & Cer monys which in some measure are Contrary to the practice of our Church, in others at least wholly & Totally not accus- tomed; The refusing of due obedience towards his Superiors, ano her Circumstance without which no body no single Christian, no private person, much less a Parson a Preacher, ought to fail in, namely his not having the manual of Christians with him, I mein the Holy Bible, further his suspicions Company in which he : rriv'd, His living (contrary to all the rules of decency & acti ally subject to Scandal) in company with a woman of full age & unmarried & making use of the same bed with her even suppose she was (as he says) his own daughter. I cannot avoid dec aring my humble Opinion, That all the Circumstances of this mar. Connected afford the highest degree of Suspicion unto me.
The Lord who is the real Truth, who distroyeth Lyars, unto whom the false are an abomination, Make Evident by his wisdom in & short time this hidden secret of Malice which no doubt is Corealed in the foregoing Case, And Powerfully preserve his Church from Intruding Hirelings as these are.
Unto his faithfull Protection Your most Reverd with the Whole of your most Reverends Consistory is uprightly recom- mer ded by him who with the highest Esteem has the Honour to rem in Your most Reverends most Humble Servant
Councellor of the Government & Consistory of the Duke
of Wurtemburg, and advocatus Fisci Ecclesiastici
FREDERICK WILHELM FROMMANN Ld At Stutgard ye 18. Octobr 1746.
J have seen this Coppy & Certify its
ag. eement with the Original.
FREDERICK WAGENER Rev : minist : Senior mpp.
Ha nburg 20. Novr 1746.
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LITRA B.
Anno 1716. is certain one, which calles himself John Lod- wick Hofgood or Georg Lodwick Hofgood, arrived in the city of New York and by the orders of his Excellency (hereby coming) is he stopt in the city of New York & the whole Province. Thereupon he has taken place upon Bachwayk here in Dutches County pretending to be a Lutheran Minister which he not is. 1. He Came in this Province without any attest, with a Simple Pass, as a Marchand. 2. He condemns all ordinary Vocations " of the Ministers as a humain Invention. 3. He has taken upon him without Vocation and Attest, against the orders of His Ex- cellency, the Congregations of another Minister. 4. He has taken upon him, the pretended Vocation of the High Dutch in New Jorke and at Bachwayk upon the Term of a Year. 5. He preaches Blasphemie and unnatural Things as by Example-the Holy Bible is a heretick book, he doth not believe that any Body believes what is written therein ; Our Lord God has none Hands in none Manner, He is not more as a Wind: Men must not take the Scripture by the Letter, but in Contrary Sens, and every One which will not give Consent unto thes like his Doctrines are Dann'd and Cursed and Can't be saved-Which things to act and preach not one sincere Christian can approave, (be of what Confession he is) and for are of our Confession in the Contrary a Abomination by us, by reason, it brings all Worship in Danger and is producing Confusion and Sects in the Congregations.
Now the Church at Bachwayk being buildt for a Lutheran Minister, thus we onderwritten Ministers of this Government doe . in all Humbleness bring this Declaration before the Honourable Court, praing their Assistance against the said Hofgoed in Manner as Shall appear to be necessary.
MICHAEL CHRISTIAN KNOLL, Minister at New
At the Weapons Kreek Jorke and in Dutches County
3th of Octob 1748.
Loonenburgh in ye County of Albany.
Having considered His Excellency's our Right Honourable Governor's Orders against Mr John Lodewick Hofgoed, bearing date ye 30 of May 1746 and ye gth of Novr 1746 as also, that
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Consistorial advice of that Most Revd Consistory at Hamburgh cum annexis, bearing Date ye 30th Nov. 1746, I the Subscriber of this do humbly Submit to both ye Political & Ecclesiastical Dec. sion in this business, and do heartily agree with the most hun ble petition of our distressed Lutheran Brethren at Pogh- quai -k in Beekmans precinct further relief and Deliverance or assistance against ye sd unlawful & Unworthy Minister Hofgoed, I Testify and agree & Beg, Praying for ye safety of Our most Gra ious Souvereign & Especially for ye Prosperity of ye Legisla- ture and all ye Protestant Churches within this our Government.
WILLIAM CHRISTOPH BERKENMEYER Protestant Lutheran Minister in ye City & County of Albany.
LITRA C.
Anro 1746. Johann Lodwick Hofgood coming unto us in Dut hess County in Beekman precinct, he was coming in the House of Andrees Freiderick Peck too : and at the same Time Barl ara Tupper, Wife of Christian Tupper, was present seeing and hearing him for some hours. And he the said Hofgood, after Dinner going away, she the said Barbara told us freely, by good Heart, without any action of question, that she was know- ing the Place of Great Ingersheim, but never she did know him, it should not be for good Songs that he was gone from thence that this is the Truth I testify.
fish Kill Dutches County June ye 5th 1749.
Then personally appeard before me James Verplanck Esqr Andrees Frederick Peck and Elizabeth Sharer who declared on oath that the within mentioned Barbara Tupper told them what is here in this paper set forth and farther Said not.
EXAMINATION
BY CAPTAIN PAUL RYCAUT, TAKEN AT PAUGHKEPSIE OCTOBER THE 7TH 1761.
Serijt Cassedys Account of the ill treatment he Received from Jnathan Mead the Blacksmith and Timothy Driskill at the nine Partners when on Command after Deserters September the 30th 1761.
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That on the 29th of September Lieut Lyons detached him & a Sergt of the 55th with ten men in pursuit of three Deserters front the 17th Regiment, which he had information were concealed by the Inhabitants of the nine Partners, when he with the Command came to a place call'd the City he was inform'd that one McIntosh a Deserter from the 55th Regiment was at work for Mr Bokay a Justice of the peace, near the above mentioned. place, he thought it necessary to send the Sergt of the 55th in pursuit of said Deserter, and himself with a Corporal and three men to continue the rout to the nine Partners, when he parted from the Sergt of the 55th he gave him Lieut Colonel Darbys orders and pass which he had received from Lient Lyons. As soon as he came to the nine Partners he was informed that three men whose names they said wer Charles Lee, John Bravington & Joseph Roberts (whom he knew to be Deserters From the 17th Regt) had been lately at Sutherlands Mills, and was told he might get some account of them at Jonathan Meads a Blacksmith who liv'd near the Mills, when he came to the Blacksmiths shop he ask'd Mcad if he could inform him of any Deserters, he answered he knew of none and if he did would not tell-the Sergt then proceeded to the Mills and enquired from Mr Sutherland, (who he was told is an officer of the Malitia,) if he had seen three men pass that way, he said that he had seen three men there about four days ago, and that he had given them change for some Dollars, and likewise that one of them (which the Serjt by the description knew to be Charles Lee one of the Deserter above mention) had a great number of Dollars in a handkerchief and wanted to exchange Dollar for Dollar with said Sutherland, he giving none of a later date then 1755-this made ye Serjt conclude that Lee had coined those Dollars-the Sergt afterwards came to the house of one Freeman who told him that three men naming the three Deserters names viz Charles Lee John Bravington and Joseph Roberts had been four days near his house carousing and had left it about five days since, when they went away stole a coat from him-the said Freeman next day went with the Sergt in pursuit of the Deserters, on their way were inform'd that a Deserter from the 55th Regiment was married to the daughter of one Timothy
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Driskill whose house was in their road, when they came to Driskills house he told the Serjt he knew of no Deserters & that it was false who ever had told him that his daughter was married to one-as the Serjt had been inform'd by the people of the Country that Driskill was a man of bad character and did Knowing- ly entertain Deserters, he secured said Driskill who then confess'd that his daughter was married to a Deserter from the 55th and that he knew of one Armstrong from Gage's light Infantry & would assist him in taking them, after the Sergt had settled with Driskill in what manner they were to act, he with one man of his party went to a house a little distance from Driskills, and after they were got into bed the above mentioned Jonathan Mead a Blacksmith with about thirty other people forced into the house and drag'd the Serjt and Allan Cooper a Granadier into different rooms and beat them in a most ernel manner, saying Damn the King and all such raschally fellows that were after Deserters, and after they were tir'd of beating them kept them prisoners all night without having any proper authority for it, the next morning Samuel Smith a Constable & likewise an Officer of the malitia, came to them and said he had a warrant to take him the Serj' and his party before a Justice of the peace, the Serjt then directed him to the house where the rest of the party was who were also secured and with him carried before Justice Roswell Hopkins, who abused them very much saying that Lient Lyons his Officer & he deserv'd both to be hang'd & utter'd many abusive expressions & would not even suffer them to say any thing in their defence but comitted them unheard to the common Goal, nor would the Justice take the least cognisance of their informa- tion against Driskill for concealing Deserters, nor of Mead the Blacksmith heading a possy breaking into the house where they lay, beating them in a most terrible manner and using ye traiterons expressions he did against the Kings Sacred Majesty.
Mr Crannell an Attorney at Panghkeepsie and many others told me if the Serjt had not imprudently given Lieut Colonel Darby's Orders & pass to the Serj' of the 55th Regiment, the Justice of the peace upon his producing them would not have committed them to Goal and added from the informations sworn against them
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by Mead, Driskill &c they could not be released but by order of the Governor or a letter from him to ye Justicces.
By what information I could collect from the inhabitants, those of the nine Partners are a riotous people and Levellers by principle.
PAUL RYCAUT Captain.
To Lieut Colonel JOHN DARBY.
SURVEYOR GENERAL'S OBJECTIONS TO THE BOUNDS
CLAIMED FOR THE MINISINK PATENT.
To the Honourable Cadwallader Colden Esq His Majestys Lieutenant Governor and Commander in Chief, in and over the Province of New York, and Territories Depend ing thereon in America.
The Representation of Alexander Colden Surveyor General of the said Province.
HUMBLY SHEWETII
That some of the Proprietors of a Tract of Land in this Province commonly known by the Name of the Minissink Patent, having Filed in the Secretary's Office a Map and Parti- tion of the said Tract, in pursuance of an Act of the Lieut Governor, the Council, and General Assembly, intituled "An Act for the more Effectual Collecting of His Majesty's Quitrents in the Colony of New York, and for Partition of Lands in order thereto." I think it my Duty to make some remarks thereon whereby it will appear that the said Proprietors have greatly Intruded on the Kings Lands, to the prejudice of his Rights anc .. Interest in his Quitrents, waveing all other Exceptions, which may be justly taken to the Legality of this Partition
The Said Tract, in the Patent Granting the same, is described aud Bounded in the Words following. Viz "Situate lying and " being in the Counties of Orange and Ulster, Beginning at a " Certain place in Ulster County called Hunting House or Yagh " House, lying to the Northeast of the Land called Bashees " Land, thence to run West by North untill it meet with the- " Fish Kill or Main Branch of Delaware River ; Thence to Run. " Sontherly to the South end of great Minissink Island ;-. " Thence Due South to the Lands lately granted to Jolm Bridgeu
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" and Company, and so ulong that Patent as it runs NORTUWARD " and the Patent of Captain John Evans ; and Thence to the " place it first Began".
For the better understanding the Eastern boundary of this Tract, I beg leave to observe that, the line running Due South from Great Minissink Island to the land Granted to Bridges and Company, terminates in a Remarkable Ridge of Hills extending Northeasterly from Delaware River to Hudson's River, which Ridge of Hills is the Western Boundary of the Land Granted to the said John Bridges and Company, and of the Lands formerly Granted to Captain John Evans, the Patent whereof has been Since Vacated and the Lands Reasumed by the Crown. It Clearly appears from the Records of the Boundaries'of the Township of Rochester, the Boundaries of the Township of Marbletown, and by the Boundaries of this very Patent of Minissink that at the time those Grants were made, the said Ridge of Hills were understood to be the Western Boundaries of Evan's Patent.
It is most Evident that the Eastern Boundary of the above Described Tract of Land, is one continued Line running North- ward from the South end of the above mentioned Due South line, 'till it comes opposite to the Hunting House or Place of Beginning, which is at a Small Distance on the West Side of the said Hills. This Tract so bounded Easterly by the said Ridge of Hills Contains not less than two hundred and fifty thousand acres, under the very Small Qnitrent of Nine Pounds Current Money of this Province.
But notwithstanding this clear, certain, and obvious Eastern Boundary of the said Tract of Land, the Commissioners appointed to make Partition thereof, have filed a map of the said Lands in the Secretary's Office which takes in a very large Tract of Land on the East Side of the said Ridge of Hills, and have made Partition of part thereof, under a false pretence that, the Lands formerly granted to Captain John Evans do not extend to the said Ridge of Hills on the North Side of the Tract of Land Granted to John Bridges and Company ; and in order to include the Land which they say, lyes between the said Hills and the Lands formerly Granted to Captain John Evans, the saidl
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Commissioners have laid down on the said Map, a line Extending Due East two thousand Chains or twenty five miles in length : one other line extending North 290 30' West 1577 chains or Nineteen Miles and three quarters, and a third line extending South 51º West 761 Chains, or Nine Miles and an half-None of which three lines are mentioned in the Patent Granting the same, as boundaries of the Lands Granted ; nor can they by any Construction be made part of the Eastern boundary of the said Tract, for it extends Northward from the Due South line thereof to opposite the Hunting House, in one continued Course.
I beg Leave farther to observe that, suposeing the Lands formerly granted to Capt" John Evans, did not extend to the said Ridge of Hills on the side next to Bridges and Company, the Lands on the East side of the said Hills must remain in the Crown not having been Granted to any one. For by no Con- struction of the boundaries of the Land whereof Partition is made, can that Tract run one Chain Due East along the North side of Bridges & Compy; far less 25 Miles as they pretend to do, for they are only to extend along the Land granted to Bridges and Company as it runs Northward, and if they cannot then immediately fall on the bounds of Capt" John Evans's Land and follow that likewise Northward 'till opposite the Hunting House, They must, to supply the Defect in the Description of their Boundaries, follow the shortest Northerly Line that can be Drawn, which will be along the said Ridge of Hills. Nor can they by any Construction extend to the Northward beyond the Hunting House, but by the said three lines which they have assumed they extend Nine miles and a half to the Northward of it.
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