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RIDGELY BRETHREN CHURCH (INTERIOR).
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On October 22, 1909, the Ridgely Church was divided by an Elder from an adjoining state district. The irregular- ities of this move were called to the attention of District Meeting, and after careful consideration a committee of three Elders was appointed to go to Maryland, and investi- gate the case. The Committee met the members of the . former Ridgely Church in joint session, May 3, 1910. After a long and careful investigation the committee pro- nounced the work illegal, because of the irregularities, but recognizing the fact that conditions seem to make a division desirable, proceeded in a regular way to divide the Church, the one part retaining the name Ridgely, and the other being called Denton. Each part accepted the decision of the committee. The Ridgely Church had about 150 members before the division, and the line of division was so fixed as to divide the membership about equally.
The new Ridgely Church is fully organized and active in all the church auxiliaries, Sunday School, prayermeeting, Christian Workers, missionary and temperance committees, and efficient work is done. The following have been Elders in charge of Ridgely : William Hertzler, J. Y. King, Geo. S. Rairigh, S. K. Fike, T. F. Imler, the latter being the present Elder.
On November 11-12, 1914, the Annual Ministerial Sun- day School, and Missionary Meeting was held in the Ridgely Church.
Note .- The Denton Church without being released by the Eastern District of Penna., made application to be received into the Eastern District of Maryland and was received by that district. See Minutes of District Meeting, 1913.
CHAPTER III.
BROOKLYN CHURCH.
Mission Work in Greater New York City .- The begin- ning of mission work by the Church of the Brethren in Greater New York City dates back to the year of 1892. Several of Brother Hope's converts of Malmö, Sweden, came to America and making this city their home appealed to the General Mission Board for services. Pastor T. T. Myers, of Philadelphia, Pa., was empowered by the Board to come here and conduct the first services. He baptized several young people and as the outlook for a Mission seemed hopeful, the General Board took steps to open a Mis- sion by appointing Brother J. Kurtz Miller and wife to pioneer the work.
It is worthy of mention that Sister Alice Boone rendered valuable assistance in work amongst the children for a year or so. The first Sunday School was opened April 2, 1897. Also Bro. J. Edson Ulery and wife who succeeded Sister Boone gave much valuable services to the Mission work in its early struggle. The Mission Church was organized Octo- ber 4, 1899, consisting of five brethren and five sisters. This organization was effected by the General Mission Board. On account of failing health, Brother Ulery with- drew from the work in the fall of 1901 and Bro. J. Kurtz Miller then took full charge of the Mission, November 24, 1901.
At the Harrisburg (Pa.) Conference ( 1902) Bro. Miller made a strong plea before the Mission Board to take definite steps toward building a Mission Home and Church. The Board granted him the privilege to solicit funds to this end. By January 10, 1905, he had sufficient funds to buy a plot of ground 66 × 100, for which he paid $4,300, spot cash. At the Springfield (Ill.) Conference ( 1906) he presented plans for the proposed Mission buildings which were adopted by
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the Mission Board. Brother Miller threw all the " Caleb blood " that he possessed into the good cause, and after hav- ing many, "never-to-be-forgotten-experiences," he broke ground for the Mission buildings on April 29, 1908. Seven months later the buildings were dedicated, on November 29, 1908. It is worthy of note that this was our Bi-Centennial year, and was a worthy event in a great year for us as a Brotherhood. The General Mission Board was represented at the dedication in the person of Charles D. Bonsack who with a number of ministers from adjoining congregations took part in the dedicatory services. The Mission Church property was dedicated free of debt and Bro. Miller had $400 (left over after all obligations were met) which he turned over to the General Mission Board for World Wide Mission work.
At the day of the dedication the Mission Church num- bered thirty members but doubled its membership by a year later. At this writing (1913) the membership is 115, with a growing Sunday School numbering (in all departments) about 275. The Italian Sunday School numbers about 150 in addition to the English school. The Italian Mission is one of the activities of the Brooklyn Church.
Ministers elected so far in the Brooklyn Church were: D. C. Reber (1902), M. B. Miller ( 1904), J. H. Hollinger (1906), John G. Caruso (1907), A. M. Dixon (1909), A. P. Geib (1910). Ministers advanced to the second de- gree : J. E. Ulery (1899), M. B. Miller and D. W. Kurtz (1906), G. C. Myers (1910), A. P. Geib (19II).
Ministers ordained : J. Kurtz Miller ( 1903) by Elders S. R. Zug and F. P. Cassel. M. B. Miller was ordained ( 1912) by Elders J. Kurtz Miller and P. B. Fitzwater. The ordi- nation of A. P. Geib is proposed and ratified by the Elders of the southeastern Pennsylvania, New Jersey and New York Conference.
PAUL ROBERT MILLER.
The foregoing account of the Brooklyn Church may be supplemented with additional data gleaned from various sources.
The first systematic work done by the General Mission
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Board to open a mission in Brooklyn was the appointment of Sister Alice J. Boone on February 8, 1897. She was assisted by T. T. Myers in organizing the above-mentioned Sunday School, which consisted of twelve scholars at the beginning. During the same summer, the General Mission Board sent Bro. Christian Hope to Brooklyn to help estab- lish a mission. He remained only two months, baptized one, and held the first communion with seven members. In August, 1897, the Board recalled Bro. Hope to the west, asked Sister Boone to visit the churches to raise a fund for more aggressive work and closed the work till the next spring. Then Bro. J. Kurtz Miller was appointed to the work but he declined to accept on account of wishing to complete his preparation for city mission work.
Sister Boone withdrew from the work in the spring of 1899, and in June of that year J. Edson Ulery and wife assumed charge. In October following, Elders S. F. San- ger and A. B. Barnhart representing the Board, organized the congregation known as " The First Church of the Breth- ren" in Brooklyn. Elder George S. Rairigh of Maryland was chosen bishop and he had the oversight of this church, until the ordination of J. Kurtz Miller in 1903. The other officials were : J. Edson Ulery who was now advanced to the second degree of the ministry ; and Ephraim Strayer, deacon. The names of the charter members are: J. Edson Ulery, Sylvia Ulery, Ephraim Strayer, Hannah Strayer, Lewis B. Flohr, Anna E. Flohr, Mrs. Goff, Agnes Texiere, Anna Gran, Martin Texiere, Jacob Texiere.
In September, 1900, Lewis B. Flohr was elected to the office of deacon at the time Bro. Adam Eby and wife, and Eliza Miller first sailed for India. In February, 1900, Sister Elizabeth Grater came to assist Bro. and Sister Ulery in the Mission. In September, 1901, Bro. and Sister Ulery left Brooklyn Church to enter other fields of church activ- ity. Bro. J. K. Miller was then invited to become the pastor again and accepted, preaching his first sermon, November 29, 1901. Beginning with 1901, D. C. Reber was elected treasurer of the church and assisted in the Sunday School and other forms of church work until June, 1902. In the
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early struggles of the work in Brooklyn, two attempts were made to have the Eastern District of Pennsylvania take su- pervision of the newly organized congregation, viz. : in Feb. 1900, and in Sept., 1903, but they were unsuccessful.
Sister Grater withdrew from the mission work in the summer of 1902 and was succeeded by Sister Elizabeth Howe. Sister Howe did several years' earnest and effective work here. Other assistants to Bro. Miller in the work were: Sister J. Kurtz Miller, Sister L. Margaret Haas, Amos P. Geib, and Densie Hollinger.
John Caruso, an Italian, united with the church in 1900 and immediately dedicated his heart to the service of the Lord. His zeal and effort, seconded by the Board, resulted in opening a mission at 207 2Ist Street, Brooklyn. Sunday School was carried on here and up to this time about 30 Italians have been received into the church by baptism in- cluding a number of Bro. Caruso's relatives. Bro. Caruso sacrificed time and money for the success of the Italian Mis- sion, and was called to the ministry in 1907. He is still loyal and active in the work.
The mission under Sister Boone was opened in South Brooklyn on 52d St between 2d and 3d Avenues. During her stay, it was moved to the corner of 3d Ave. and 60th St. While Bro. Ulery had charge, it was changed to the corner of 3d Ave. and 59th St. As above stated, to Elder J. Kurtz Miller the Brooklyn Church and the Brotherhood at large is in a great measure indebted for his efforts in devising ways and means for the erection of the present commodious church and parsonage located at 354 60th St.
The committee on plans which also served as building committee consisted of Chas. D. Bonsack, J. Kurtz Miller and M. B. Miller. The total cost of ground, church and parsonage was $29,300. This has been truly a church home not only for the members residing in the city but also for members coming into the city on short visits or for study in New York City. It has been a resting and waiting place for outgoing and returning missionaries while in New York. In 1911, the new state district known as Southeastern Penn- sylvania, New Jersey and New York, was formed and the
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Brooklyn Church with its large field was transferred to the care of the mission board of this district, May 31, 1912. The present officials are: Elder J. Kurtz Miller, Elder-in- charge; Elder A. P. Geib, minister; deacons, Ephraim Strayer, Benjamin Biershing, J. C. Maugans, Martin Tex- iere, and Horace Gould.
Besides the preaching services and two Sunday Schools, the Brooklyn Church has a Sewing Circle, Prayer Meeting, Christian Workers' Meeting, and a Missionary Committee. On January 25, 1914, Elder J. G. Royer, of Mount Morris, Ill., began a series of evangelistic services in this congrega- tion. A. P. Geib was ordained to the eldership in 1914.
D. C. REBER.
PART X.
MISCELLANEOUS.
CHAPTER I.
ANNUAL MEETINGS.
A. THOSE HELD IN EASTERN PENNSYLVANIA.
There were eighteen yearly meetings, or more properly, general conferences, held in Eastern Pennsylvania, since the Brethren were first organized into churches in America that we know of. If the conference of 1742, held presumably in the Coventry Church, was "The beginning of Annual Meeting," as is stated in Brumbach's "History," page 490, we must infer that there were such conferences every year. Might it not have been the custom for some time after that date that, when a church had a case, or a trouble that, after repeated efforts, they could not adjust, and threatened to disrupt the church, and scatter the members, for some of the elders who were aware of the case, to call for a general conference to meet in the church where the trouble was? If it was from the beginning held every year, then it was east of the Susquehanna River, often, of which we have no record.
After twenty-one years from the first such conference, namely on May 27 and 28, 1763, there was such a confer- ence held in the Conestoga Church, which, at that time, em- braced all of Lancaster, Dauphin, Lebanon, and part of Berks counties. We have no record to show on whose farm it was held, but pointers indicate it was on the farm of Christian Longenecker, several miles west of Manheim. A full account of the minutes, and names of its signers, is given under the head of "White Oak Church."
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By reference to Brumbach's "History," page 503, we have the first intimation of another great meeting, but no place or minute given, but the year was 1775. In 1777 in Conestoga Church, Lancaster County, Pa.
From this time on, if not before, it seems these meetings were annual, but of quite a number it is not known, where held, or the work done, up to about 1830, since which we have the report pretty full. In 1779 it was in Conestoga Church.
The next Big Meeting as called in those days, in Eastern Pennsylvania, was in 1780, and another in 1781, both in Conestoga, and another in 1785 and in the same church, two again in 1788 and 1789; and in 1790, at the home of John Bach, in Coventry, and again in Coventry Church, in 1813, probably again at the home of John Bach, as before. In 1815, the conference was in White Oak Church, on the farm of Joseph Hershey, between Manheim and Junction.
The following letter, translated from the German, has never been printed, and would be of interest to some. The letter was addressed to this meeting.
MORRISON'S COVE, April 9, 1815.
Heartily much beloved Brethren in council of the Great Meeting.
We, the Brethren in Morrison's Cove, wish to you, with all fellow members in your vicinities, much grace, love and peace from God the Father, and our Savior Jesus Christ, with the comforting communion of the Holy Spirit, to a life and conver- sation devoted to God so that we may together be faithful pro- fessors, and true followers of Jesus Christ, so long as we are yet here in the Church Militant, who hold fast to the once known and confessed truth, so that we may walk in one Spirit and mind of the Truth of the Glorious Gospel, to the end, Amen !
The reason of our writing is this: Because we noticed that there is not that oneness of Spirit according to the Truth, pre- vailing among you, for we hear there is a disturbance among you, on account of the New Mennonites, that you have too much fellowship with them, contrary to the resolution passed at the council meeting at Conecocheague, not to have any fellow- ship with them, because they introduce doctrines, and confess that which is not according to the Gospel, so that we in our
PLACE OF ANNUAL MEETING, 1815. FARM THEN OWNED BY BROTHER JOSEPH HERSHE.
PLACE OF ANNUAL MEETING, 1820. JOSEPH ROYER FARM.
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churches in Morrison's Cove have no fellowship with them, and with such as have, we cannot break bread, because the calling is so much in our time, lo here is Christ, and lo there-Oh, how needful it is for us to hold fast to God from our heart, that He, by His Spirit, may lead us in all truth, as Christ has promised !
We wish for you, beloved Brethren, light and grace, wisdom and prudence, you and us, that we may, with our mind's eyes, look unto Jesus, the Author and Finisher of our faith, and to the advice of Paul, "as ye have received Christ, so walk ye in him," and be grounded in him. For if, we, in oneness of mind and belief, hold fast to the teachings of Christ, and live and walk in love and peace, and union of the Spirit of Christ, according to God's counsel and will, we will depart, and keep ourselves free from all strange spirits and their deceptions.
Therefore the Lord speaks by the prophet Jeremiah (15, 19) : " If thou hold thyself to me, so will I hold myself to thee, and thou shalt be my preacher, and if thou teach the righteous to be separate from the wicked, thou shalt be my teacher, and before thou shalt fall to them, they must come to thee " [Lit. from Ger.]
It is our well meaning advice to you, beloved Brethren, to warn you from harm, while they teach that the word of God is a dead word, but Christ says that "the words that I speak are Spirit and Life," and the Apostle writes to the Hebrews: "The word of God is quick and sharper than any two edged sword, etc.," and John writes : " Many spirits are gone out, judge the spirits whether they be of God," and if we shall judge the spirits, we must necessarily judge them by the word, and not by their magnificent speeches.
For many shall come in that day, and say, have we not prophe- sied in thy name, cast out devils, and done many works, but the answer to them was, depart from me, I know not whence ye are.
Further, beloved fellow members, we commend you heartily unto God and the word of His grace. So much from us weak pilgrims and fellow travellers to the heavenly Fatherland.
CONRAD BRUMBACH,
SAMUEL ULRICH, CHRISTIAN HUBER,
MICHAEL ETTER, JOHANNES HOLSINGER.
The action of the meeting on this letter is lengthy and can be found in the minutes, published in 1909, page 38.
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The Great Meeting held in Eastern Pennsylvania was in Conestoga Church, on the farm of Joseph Royer, in 1820. In 1827, at the home of Daniel Schumacher, in White Oak, formerly the Andreas Eby farm, now S. G. Summy; in 1831, in Conestoga Church; in 1846, in Conestoga Church, at the home of John Royer, on Trout Creek.
In another place of this work will be given a full account of this meeting, taken from a diary of brother A. H. Cassel, who was an eye witness.
The next meeting in Eastern Pennsylvania was on the farm of John E. Merkey, later his son Joseph, in Little Swatara Church in Berks County, in 1871. The next was at Harrisburg in 1902.
SUMMARIZED.
Year.
Church District.
Place.
1742 Coventry
Probably Martin Urner.
1763 Conestoga (now White Oak) . .. Probably Christ. Longenecker.
1780
Conestoga (now White Oak)
Unknown.
1781 Conestoga (now White Oak).
Unknown.
1788
Conestoga (now White Oak)
Unknown.
1789
Conestoga (now White Oak)
Unknown.
1790 Coventry
John Bach.
1813 Coventry
John Bach.
1815 White Oak
Joseph Hershe.
1820
Conestoga
Joseph Royer.
1827 White Oak
Daniel Schumacher.
1831
Conestoga
Unknown.
1846 Conestoga
John Royer.
1871 Little Swatara
John E. Merkey.
1902 Harrisburg
Paxtang Park.
Standing Committees of the aforesaid meetings, so far as known, were as follows :
1742. Unknown.
1763. Jacob Myer, Peter Dirdorf, Martin Urner, Nicholas Martin, Lorenz Shrab, Henry Naff, George Schreiber, Chris- topher Saur, George Etter, Joseph Reutsh, Jacob Stutzman. John Schlipfer, Jacob Mohr, Mattes Schweitzer, Henry Rau- denbush, Gideon Rausser, Daniel Letterman, Daniel Arnold, Anton Hartman, Sander Mack, Nicholas Letterman, Stephen Ulrich.
1780. Unknown.
178I. Unknown.
1788. Unknown.
PLACE OF ANNUAL MEETING, 1827. DANIEL SCHUMACHER FARM.
PLACE OF ANNUAL MEETING, 1846. JOHN ROYER FARM. (See p. 568.)
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1789. Daniel Letterman, Martin Urner, Jacob Danner, Heinrich Danner, Jacob Stoll, Johannes Funk, Heinrich Naff, Conrad Brumbach, Nathaniel Schreiber, Daniel Utz, Andreas Eby, Samuel Gerber Herman Blässer, Jacob Läshet, Abraham Oberholzer.
1790. George Preiss, Martin Myer, Michael Frantz, Daniel Bollinger, John Landes, Christian Lawshe, Justus Frichs, Martin Gaby, Peter Keyser, Sander Mack, Nathaniel Schreiber, David Kuntze, Martin Urner, Peter Leibert, Jacob Boeshor, Jacob Danner, Abraham Lawshe.
1813. Unknown.
1815. Johannes Zug, (?) George Price, Samuel Gerber, Jacob Stoll, Herman Blasser, Nicholas Martin, Daniel Stober, George Petry, Daniel Gerber, Benjamin Beshor, Michael Schlot- hauer, Valentine Balsbach, John Price, Johannes Eby, Andreas Mayer.
1820. Unknown.
1827. Unknown.
183I. Unknown.
1846. David Pfautz, George Hoke, Jacob Pfautz, Christian Long, John Bowman, Daniel Bollinger, Andrew Spanogle, Peter Nead, Dan Miller, Dan Bernhart, Jacob Fahrney, John Funk, Peter Long, Dan Fretz, John Price, John H. Umstad, James H. Tracey, David Shallenberger, Henry Kurtz.
1871. John Zug, Moses Miller, John Wise, D. P. Saylor, David Long, Peter Crumpacker, Solomon Garber, Martin Coss- ner, David Derrick, F. W. Dove, D. J. Peck, John P. Ebersole, H. D. Davy, J. Miller, Jacob Karns, George Hoover, D. Fry, John Metzger, John Harshey, Benjamin Beeghly, James Quinter.
1902. Tennessee, North Carolina, Florida, S. J. Bowman; First District of Virginia, T. C. Denton, D. A. Naff ; Second District of Virginia, Daniel Hays; First District of West Virginia, Jeremiah Thomas ; Eastern Maryland, E. W. Stoner ; Middle Maryland, Absalom Mellott; Western Maryland, W. T. Sines; Eastern Pennsylvania, J. H. Longenecker ; Southern Pennsylvania, Isaac Barto; Middle Pennsylvania, T. B. Mad- docks; Western Pennsylvania, Jos. Holsopple ; Southern Ohio, J. C. Bright; Northeastern Ohio, Samuel Sprankle; North- western Ohio, C. L. Wilkins; Southern Indiana, L. T. Hol- singer ; Middle Indiana, Daniel Snell ; Northern Indiana, W. R. Deeter ; Northern Illinois and Wisconsin, C. P. Roland ; South-
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ern Illinois, S. W. Garber, J. C. Stoner ; Southern Missouri, Northwestern Arkansas, C. Holderman; Middle Missouri, E. E. John; Northern Missouri, L. H. Eby; First Arkansas and Southeastern Missouri, J. H. Neher; Southern Iowa, C. M. Brower ; Middle Iowa, F. M. Wheeler ; Northern Iowa, South- ern Minnesota and South Dakota, A. P. Blough; North Da- kota and Northern Minnesota, Levi Mohler; Michigan, Isaiah Rairigh ; Nebraska, Uriah Shick ; Northeastern Kansas, George Manon ; Southeastern Kansas, M. O. Hodgden; Northwestern Kansas and Northern Colorado, C. S. Holsinger ; Southwestern Kansas, Southern Colorado and Northwestern Oklahoma, M. Keller ; Texas and Southwestern Louisiana, Jos. Minix; Okla- homa and Indian Territory, Samuel Edgecomb ; Oregon, Wash- ington and Idaho, George Wise; Denmark, D. L. Miller; Sweden, A. B. Barnhart ; First District of India, W. B. Stover ; D. L. Miller, Moderator ; L. T. Holsinger, Reading Clerk ; L. H. Eby and W. B. Stover, Writing Clerks; Wm. Oberholzer, Doorkeeper.
B. THOSE HELD ELSEWHERE.
We have now given about all that we have at hand con- cerning Annual Meetings, held east of the Susquehanna River. We shall now proceed to give what we have of those held by the Brethren elsewhere, south and west. We regret very much that we cannot give a full account of them all. From 1742 to 1763 we have no account of any Gen- eral Conference held anywhere-a space of twenty-one years-and from that time to 1775, again twelve years, we have no data. From 1775 we have no record of any Big Meeting till 1778, but from that time on we have reason to believe that the meeting was held annually ; prior to that, probably only when called to consider special work, which could not be adjusted by the home church.
All we know of the 1775 conference is from a letter written by Elder A. Mack to John Price, dated March II, 1775, in which he says : "I have duly received thy dear little letter, but I cannot know yet if I shall be able to come to the next Great Meeting. I have been speaking to Brother Christopher Sower, to ask if he meant to go. He then had no mind to go, but if I should succeed to persuade him I
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would gladly stay home myself this time, according to the body, but according to the spirit I would be there in heart- felt love and well wishing. But if it should happen that he insists on his refusal to go, and if it should be convenient for me to go, I would first like to have his own, and the Brethren's consent before starting on the journey," etc.1
It would seem from this letter that the meeting was to be held at some point remote from Germantown, which would make the trip quite a task. Following will be a list of Annual Meetings, outside of Eastern Pennsylvania, the year when, the place where, and the names of Standing Commit- tee, where we have them, omitting the minutes, which would make a book in itself.
1778. Pipe Creek, Md.
1779. Conewago, York Co., Pa.
1782. Place unknown.
1783. Pipe Creek, Md.
1785. Big Conewago, Pa. Jacob Saur, Valentine Pressel, Michael Bosserman, Martin Reinhart, David Studebaker, Peter Dirdorf, Martin Urner, Jacob Stoll, Christian Longenecker, Henry Neff, Lorenz Beckner, Philip Lewig.
1793. Conewago, York Co., Pa. Standing Committee un- known.
1794. Shenandoah, Va. Unknown.
1797. Blackwater, Va. Unknown.
1798. Conewago, York Co., Pa. Unknown.
1799. Pipe Creek, Md. Martin Urner, Martin Gaby, Henry Danner, Peter Leibert, Jacob Danner, Philip Engler, Michael Pfoutz, Martin Garber, Daniel Utz, Philip Levy, Valentine Pressel, Stephen Ulrich.
1800. Place unknown, also Standing Committee.
1803. Place unknown. The minute says : "Signed by most of those who signed in 1799."
1804. Pipe Creek, Md. Standing Committee unknown.
1805. Place and Standing Committee unknown.
1810. Antietam, Franklin Co., Pa. Heinrich Danner, Wil- helm Stober, David Long, Martin Gerber, Johannes
Peter Keyser, Nicholas Martin, Herman Blasser, Christian Long, Mathias Schneider, Jacob Künsel, Christian Huber, George Preis, Daniel Stober.
1 Brumbaugh, " History," p. 503.
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1812. Place and Standing Committee unknown.
1814. Pipe Creek, Md. Samuel Garber, Benjamin Bow- man, George Preis, Daniel Stober, Nicholas Martin, Jacob Beshor, Samuel Arnold, Martin Garber, David Pfautz, John Eby, Christian Long, John Schleifer, Daniel Long, Daniel Garber, Michael Etter, Henry Gibbel, Herman Blässer, George Petry, Daniel Arnold, David Albaugh, John Diel, Jacob Shene- felt, John Price, Isaac Long.
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