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In 1745 he had married John Cunradt Temple- mann and Maria Elizabeth Buechlin, and in 1744 John Philipp Holinger and Juliana Umberger. On January 7, 1746, he baptized a child of Matthias
*Hallesche Nachrichten Vol. I., Note 71, on p. 587, and Viol. II., p. 547. Howsoever independent and prejudiced pastor Stoever may have been, the air of authority and superiority assumed by Muhlenberg in dealing with him, must have been very aggravating to the pioneer missionary. We learn from the source indicated above, also, that Rev. Mr. Kurtz, of the Ministerium, had gone into Mr. Stoever's field and done Stoever wrong, and thus prejudiced him against the Synod.
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Boger and Anna Magd. Wampsler, on May 15 a child of James Clarck and Margeretha Trotter and on September 4 Christoph, a child of Adam Ulrich, of Lebanon. In the note appended we pre- sent a large number of Rev. Stoever's pastoral acts in Lebanon, though the list is not exhaustive .*
In the year 1763 something occurred in the his- tory of Lebanon which served to place Rev. Stoever at the head of temporal affairs in the town of Leb- anon, and to increase his worldly influence and cares in many ways. It was the downfall of George Steitz. We have seen that Mr. Steitz had already made over his three tracts of land to George Rey-
"NOTE RECORDING SOME OF REV. STOEVER'S PASTORAL ACTS IN LEBANON FROM 1747 ON.
On Jan. 13, 1747, he married Jacob Brenneiser and Anna Veronica Wampsler, and on December 29, Volentin Herchelrodt and Elisabetha Meusser, all of Lebanon.
In 1748 he married Abraham Richardson and Maria Margaretha Mintz. on Sept. 24, John Carr and Margaretha Ross, and on Dec. 21 Johann Jacob Dietz and Catarina Holzwart, all of Lebanon.
In 1749 and 1750 he married George Borden and Anna Catarina Um- benhauer, William Morris and Rebecca Oliphants, Adam Buerger and Maria Barbara Meyer, John Henderson and Anna Simple, Johann Wolf Kissner and Anna Sabina Bindtnagel, of Lebanon.
In 1751 he had ten Lebanon marriages, among which were Johannes Becker and Catarina Umberger, Sebastian Kirstaetter and Magdalena Derver, Melchoir Winckelmann and Barbara Sigrist, Franz Caspar Wagner and Margar. Kirstaetter, and James Rafler and Barbara Meylie.
In 1752 and '53 he married Peter Kraemer, Philipp Weigandt, John Adam Barth, and Johannes Huber to Maria Elisab. Ritscher, Johann Mich. Kirstaetter to Maria Doroth. Dietz and Heinrich Hortle to Cata- rina Firnssler.
In 1754 he married George Hansz Dietrich and Veronica Meyer.
In 1755 he married George Sprecher, Johann Peter Pannekuchen, Johann Adam Wirth, John George Roessler, Johann Adam Stoehr, and Lorentz Kurtz to Maria Elizabetha Saur.
Among the half dozen marriages of 1756 we find those of Michael
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nolds and that Reynolds and Steitz had laid them out "for a town called Lebanon."* Reynolds was unable to hold the tracts and they were seized by the Sheriff of Lancaster county in execution and were sold at public sale to the highest bidder. They were bought in by a company of Lebanonians of whom the Lutheran minister at Sunnyside was the leader and head. In this way Rev. Stoever, with several other Lutheran and several Reformed per- sons, became the owners of the vacant town lots of Lebanon. The other owners with Rev. Stoever were the two inn-keepers, Christopher Wegman
Malfir, Johann Martin Kirstaetter and Eliz. Bickel, and George Hansz Dietrich and Dorothea Boltz. He also baptized a daughter of Jacob Wentz "at Lebanon (Kruppen)," the name Kruppen being spelled thus and showing that territorial sense in which the word was used.
In 1757 he married John Peter Ritscher and Anna Margaretha Kirber, John Jacob Boltz and Catarina Madern, Lebanon, Jacob Zimp- fer and Anna Maria Lorentz, Lebanon, Johannes Kuemmerling and Anna Maria Pfrang, Lebanon, Martin Schmidt and Catarina Fischer, Hansz Ulrich Huber and Elizabeth Firnsler, Lebanon, Peter Kraemer and Anna Margaretha Ernst, Lebanon, John Nicolaus Brechtbiel and Juliana Diller.
In 1758, Anastasius Uhler and wife were sponsors for John Jacob, a child of Caspar Schnaebele (Anabaptist) and wife (Lutheran). In this year Stoever married George Fischer and Anna Elisabeth Knopf, Antonius Karmenie and Anna Christina Hetzler, Andreas Bartruft and Christina Sophia Klein, Johannes Hebberling and Maria Elisab. Pressler, Lebanon, Robert Rogers and Anna Christina Ramberg, Peter Fischer and Catarina Bockle, Johann Schweickhardt Innboden and Eleanora Diller, Lebanon.
In 1759 he baptized a daughter of Martin Meyley, Jr., Jacob Weber and Anna Sabina Meyley being sponsors. He married Jacob Sprecher and Dorothea Blecher, Lebanon, Peter Brechbiel and Maria Catarina Franck, Lebanon, Thomas Clark and Margaretha Heydt, Martin Her- man and Anna Dorothea Borst, Philipp Baasz and Anna Weimer, Lebanon, and John Ernst Curt and Margaretha Riedt.
In 1760 he married Jacob Ziegeler and Juliana Kirstetter, Frantz *See Stoever deed to the Lutheran Church, which puts the matter in a clear light.
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and Philip Greenwald, the shop-keeper Caspar Schnebele, and the tanner, George Hock, the car- penter, John Ulrick Schneble, and the blacksmith,
Christian Gish. Rev. Stoe- John Caspar Forever ver always appears at the head of this company and seems to have filled out some of the deeds in his own handwriting .* He
Caspar Wagner (widower) and Elizabetha Wirtz, Lebanon and Co- calico, George Obermeyer and Anna Barbara Vogt, Hanover, Michael Kirber and Anna Maria Schlatter, Adam Bayer and Maria Sara Ritschor, Christian Mueller and Elizabeth Ried, Edward Steans and Mary Martin, Lebanon, George Ulrich and Elizabeth Naess, Lebanon and Cocalico.
In 1761 he married Thomas Atkinson and Elizabeth Williams, John Daniel Stroh and Catarina Barbara Uhler, Heinrich Schnatterle and Anna Barbara Uhler.
In 1764 he married Jacob Firnssler and Magdalena Peter, George Bahner and Barbara Olinger, Johannes Peter and Barbara Firnszler, George Federhoff and Anna Elisabetha Schnaebelin.
In 1765 he baptized a daughter of Phil. Gruenewoalt, Christoph. Em- bich and wife being sponsors, and John, a son of Christopher Embisch Phil. Gruenewalt and wife being sponsors.
In 1765 he married George Ellinger and Anna Maria Catarina Weyhrich, and Jno. George Schock and Anna Catarina Maurer.
In 1766 he married Johannes Stein and Eva Barbara Kucher, Jacob Bickel and Maria Catarina Brann, Anastasius Heylmann and Rosina Barbara Maurer, Geo. Maurer and Magdalena Heylmann, Caspar Elias Diller, and Eva Magdalena Meyer, John Adam Weiss and Maria Eva Meyer, Andreas Karg and Maria Heinrich, IAnna
Daniel Jangblut and Anna Maria Elizabeth Heinrich, John Leonhardt Kirst- aetter and Anna Elisabetha Zehrung, John Christoph. Uhler and Margar. Barbara Spicker, Lebanon.
In 1767 he married John Thome and Anna Maria Reiss, Lebanon.
In 1768 he married Lucas Schally and Maria Elisabetha Boger, John Martin Uhler and Ana Elisabetha Stroh, Johannes Herman and Cata- rina Herman, Lebanon.
He also baptized John Friedrick, a child of Christopher Embich, on March 8, 1767, Philipp Marstellar and wife being sponsors.
*See deed to John Thome, in possession of Henry Heilman. The lot referred to in this deed was sold at a yearly rental of three shillings and four pence. It was sold by Thome to Caspar Schnebele on the same date for three pounds Pennsylvania currency, and again by Caspar Schnebele on February 19, 1779, for 34 pounds Pennsylvania currency.
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was the best educated man in the community and seems to have had a capacity and a bent for the management of property. His associates no doubt left the scrivener's part of the new enterprise largely to him.
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CHAPTER XII.
OLD SALEM RECEIVES HER DEED FROM STOEVER.
N AUGUST, 1763, the pa- triarch Muhlenberg rode up from Reading to Stouchsburg on horse- back, and preached at Stouchsburg on the morning of the 28th, and at Schaefferstown in the Fac-simile of Stoever's deed to Salem afternoon of the same day. The pastor at Stouchsburg, was the young Mr. Kurtz .* This was the year after the Lebanon congregation had applied to Synod for admission, and it is just possible that young Mr. Kurtz had been told by synodical authority to hold service in Lebanon as often as he could. Whether this was with Rev. Stoever's consent or not we do not know, but in any case Rev. Stoever himself would
*Wm. Kurtz, younger brother of John Nicholas Kurtz, assisted his brother ag pastor at Tulpehocken. John Nicholas first arrived at Tulpe- hocken December 16, 1746, and made his home with Conrad Weiser. He was not ordained until 1748 and remained pastor at Tulpehocken until April, 1770, when he removed to York. He was elected pastor at German- town in 1762, and from June, 1763, to June, 1764, he lived at Germantown without having given up his charge in Tulpehocken, his place there being supplied by his brother William. During his stay at Tulpehocken he had charge, in addition to Christ church and the Old Tulpehocken or Reed's church, of North Kill, (Bernville) during the whole time, the Hei- delberg or Eck church from its oganization in 1730, and Atolhol or Reh- rersburg church .- Dr. B. M. Schmucker, in Lutheran Church Review.
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not be able to preach very frequently or very reg- ularly on Sunday.
Meantime the Lebanon congregation must have been in a bad way about its property, for the latter, as well as that of the Reformed church was involved in the Sheriff's sale of 1763. However, Rev. Stoe- ver and his partners decided to present the prop- erty, 198 by 162 feet, to the congregation. The deed was actually executed on the 13th of March, 1765 .*
In this deed occur the names of the first four members of the congregation known. They were its first trustees .** The deed states that the consid- eration paid was five pounds Pennsylvania cur- rency. Whether this was a mere legal form and the property was an outright gift, we do not know. In any case the annual ground rent was to be noth- ing more than one red rose to be paid annually in June 'if it were lawfully demanded.' As the deed will be of interest to many members, though it is a lengthy document, we give a transcript of it in full in the following note:
DEED OF REV. CASPAR STOEVER TO THE LUTHERAN CHURCH OF LEBANON.
THIS INDENTURE made the 13th day of March, in the year of our Lord 1765, between the Rev. John Caspar Stoever, clerk and Mary Cath- arine his wife, Christopher Wegman, Inn holder, and Eva Maria, his
*Four months afterwards, on August 1, 1765, Rev. Stoever and company executed a similar deed to the Reformed church of Lebanon for their lot of ground. About two weeks before this happened, on July 18th, Rev. Stoever baptized a daughter of the inn-keeper. Philip Gruenenwaldt and wife, on the same day on which it was born, and the sponsors were Christoph Embisch and wife. It may also be said here that on September 6, 1767, Rev. Stoever baptized Christoph F. Kuemmerling, a child of Martin Kuemmerling, of Bethel, and Christopher Wegman was sponsor.
** Two of them, we have seen, were mentioned as trustees in the earlier deeds.
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wife, Philip Greenwald, inn holder, and Margaretta, his wife, Casper Snebele, shop keeper, and Sabina, his wife, Christian Gish, blacksmith, and Sophia hiswife, George Hock, tanner, and Sophia his wife, and Ulrick Snebele, Joyner, and Eva his wife, all of Township of Lebanon in the county of Lancaster, and Province of Pennsylvania, of the one Part, and Jacob Bickel, Daniel Stroh, Philip Fernsler and Michael Rieter of the same place, Trustees and Wardens to and for the only Use and Benefit of the German Lutheran Congregation settled and established in same place, of the other part,
Whereas George Reynolds, late of Lebanon aforesaid, in the said County of Lancaster, yeoman by virtue of devises or conveyances to him made was lately seized or possessed of three certain contiguous tracts of land in Lebanon aforesaid, which said three contiguous tracts of land or the better part thereof were, by the said George Reynolds and by one George Stitz, the former owner and possessor thereof, laid out for a town called Lebanon
And Whereas John Hay, Esq., late High Sheriff of Lancaster County aforesaid, by virtue of several writs to him directed seized and took the aforesaid three contiguous tracts of land in execution and sold the same and the rents, issues and profits thereof unto the said John Casper Stoever, Christopher Wegman, Philip Greenwald, Casper Snebele, Christian Gish, George Hock and Ulrich Snebele, their heirs and assigns forever as in and by a certain deed poll the 31st day of October, A. D. 1763, duly executed by the said Sheriff and acknowledged in open court, intended to be entered on record at Lancaster, the relation thereunto being had at large appears.
Now this Indenture Witnesseth that the said John Casper Stoever and Mary Catherine his wife, Christopher Wegman and Eva Maria, his wife, Philip Greenwald and Margarretta his wife, Casper Sne- bele and Sabina his wife, Christian Gish and Sophia his wife, George Hock and Sophia his wife, and Ulrich Snebele and Eva his wife, for and in consideration of the sum of five pounds lawful money of Pennsyl- vania to them in hand paid. Before the insealing and delivery of these Presents, and benefit whereof is hereby acknowledged
Have granted, bargained, sold, aliened, premised, released and en- feoffed and confirmed and by these Presents they, the said John Casper Stoever and Mary Catherine his wife, Christopher Wegman and Eva Maria his wife, Philip Greenwald and Margarretta his wife, Caspar Snebele and Sabina his wife, Christian Gish and Sophia his wife, George Hock and Sophia his wife and Ulrich Snebele and Eva his wife,
Do grant, bargain, sell, aliened, premise, release and confirm unto the said Jacob Bickel, Daniel Stroh, Philip Fernsler and Michael Rieter and the survivors and survivor of them and the heirs and assigns of such survivor in trust to and for the only use, benefit, intent and behoff of all and every of y members of said Lutheran congregation and to and for no other use, intent or purpose whatsoever
All that certain lot or piece of land (it being part and partial of the aforesaid three contiguous tracts of land) situate in the Town of Lebanon
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aforesald, containing in front on a street in the General Plan of the said Town called Water street, eight perches and in depth to a lot of Peter Shofe 12 perches, Bounded on the south by the said street, on the west by a 15 ft. alley, on the north by the said lot of Peter Shofe and on the east by a lot intended to be granted for a School-House.
Together with all and singular the improvements, rights, liberties, priviledges, hereditaments and appurtenances whatsoever thereunto be- longing or in any wise appertaining and the reversions and remainders thereof, and all the estate, right, title, property, the interest, claim and demand whatsoever of them the said John Casper Stoever and Mary Cathrine his wife, Christopher Wegman and Eva Maria his wife, Philip Greenwald and Margareta his wife, Casper Snebele and Sabina his wife, Christian Gish and Sophia his wife, George Hock and Sophia his wife, and Ulrich Snebele and Eva his wife, of, in, and to the aforesaid de- scribed lot of ground, hereditaments and all and singular the premises with the appurtenances hereby granted and every part and parcel thereof,
To Have and to Hold the said above mentioned and described lot of ground, hereditaments and premises hereby granted and released or mentioned and intended so to be, with the appurtenances unto the said Jacob Bickel, Daniel Stroh, Philip Fernsler, and Michael Rieter and the survivors or survivor of them, and the heirs and assigns of such survivor nevertheless to and for the only benefit, use and behoof the German Lutheran congregation settled and established in that part of the country, bargained premises is situated lying and being and to and for no other use, intent and purpose forever.
Yielding and paying therefor unto the aforesaid grantors, their heirs and assigns at the said town of Lebanon the yearly rent of one red rose in June in every year forever hereafter, if the same shall be lawfully demanded,
And the said John Caspar Stoever, Christopher Wegman, Philip Green- wald, Caspar Snebele, Christian Gish, George Hock and Ulrich Snebele, for themselves severally and respectively and for their several and re- spective heirs and every of them do covenant, promise and grant to and with the said Jacob Bickel, Daniel Stroh, Philip Fernsler and Mich- ael Rieter, Trustees as aforesaid, and the survivors and survivor of them, and the heirs and assigns of such survivor in trust to and for the use, intents and purposes aforesaid, and their successors in the said trust forever, That they, the said John Caspar Stoever Christopher Wegman, Philip Greenwald, Caspar Snebele, Christian Gish, George Hock and Ulrich Snebele, and their several and respective heirs, and every of them, The said described lot of ground hereditaments and premises hereby granted, or mentioned so to be, with the appurtenances unto the said Jacob Bickel, Daniel Stroh, Philip Fernsler and Michael Rieter, in trust as aforesaid, against them the said John Caspar Stoever, Chris- topher Wegman, Philip Greenwald, Caspar Snebele, Christian Gish, George Hock, and Ulrich Snebele and the several and respective heirs and against all and every other person and persons whatsoever shall and will warrant and forever defend by these Presents,
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In Witness the said parties to these have herewith interchangeably set their hands and Seals dated the Day and Year first above written.
SEALED AND DELIVERED IN THE PRESENCE OF US, By John Caspar Stoever and Mary Catherine his wife, Christopher Weg- man and Eva Maria his wife, and Philip Greenwald and Margaretta his wife.
JACOB WEISER. PHILIP MARSTELLER. Sealed and Delivered by Caspar Snebele and Sabina his wife, Chris- tian Gish and Sophia his wife, George Hoke and Sophia his wife, Ulrey Snebele and Eva his wife, in the presence of
ANASTASIUS UHLER, GEORGE STROW, PHILIP MARSTELLER.
THE 30th Day of July in he Year of our Lord 1765. Before me the Sub- scriber one of his Majesty's Justices of the Peace for the County of Lancaster, came the above named John Caspar Stoever and Mary Catherine his Wife, Christopher Wegman and Eva Maria his Wife, Philip Greenwald and Margareta his Wife, Caspar Snebele and Sabina his Wife, Christian Gish and Sophia his Wife, George Hock and Sophia his Wife, and Ulrick Snebele and Eva his Wife and acknowledged the above Indenture to be their act and deed and desired that same might be Recorded as such, the said Mary Catherine, Eva Maria, Margareta, Sabina, Sophia, Sophia, and Eva thereunto freely Consenting they and each of them being of full age, and by me privately examined,
In Witness Whereof I have hereto set my Hand and Seal the day and Year aforesaid. JOHN HAY.
Entered in the office for Recording of Deeds in and for the County of Lancaster in Book H, Page 299, the 24th Day of August, Anno Domini one Thousand Seven Hundred and Sixty-five, Witness my hand and Seal of my office aforesaid. EDW. SHIPPEN,
Recorder.
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CHAPTER XIII.
THE FIRST TRUSTEES AND THEIR ACKNOWLEDG- MENT OF TRUST.
T HE first four men to appear definitely on the page of Old Salem's history are its trus- tees. Except the Rev. Stoever, Mrs. Cas- par Schnebele,* the wife of one of the donors of the land, and Christopher Wegman, ** an- other of the donors, who were undoubtedly Lu- therans, and Henry Rade, the first delegate to Synod in 1760, and who presented a lot to the church, the four men appearing on the deed as trustees are the only members of the Lebanon Lu- theran congregation whose names we know up to this point. The first of them, Jacob Bickel, was perhaps a personal friend of Stoever's .* He was
*Caspar Schnebele himself was an Anabaptist. See Stoever's Diary, p. 47.
** Christopher Wegman was a sponsor for one of Rev. Stoever's own children, at the baptism taking place September 30, 1759 (See Stoever's Diary), and probably therefore a Lutheran. Moreover, Christopher Wegman, Jr., was one of the "professed members of the protestant Luth- eran religion," sending out a petition for aid in 1768.
*When Rev. Stoever baptized his own grandchild, the daughter of J. C. Stoever, Jr., of Bethel, on Feb. 12, 1758, Heinrich Bickel was a sponsor of the child, and Anna Margaretha Stoever was the other sponsor. Both sponsors were single persons. In Sept., 1765, six months after Rev. Stoever had deeded the lot to Jacob Bickel and the other trus- tees, he baptized three children of Tobias Bickel and wife, Tulpehocken.
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unmarried at this time, and just a year after the ground was deeded, on March 4th, 1766, Rev. Stoever married him to Maria Catarina Braun, both of Lebanon. Of Daniel Strow, the second trustee, we know that four years earlier* Rev. Stoe- ver had married John Daniel Stroh into the strong Lutheran family of Uhler. It was a double wed- ding, in fact, Stroh having married Catarina Bar- bara, and Heinrich Schnatterle having married Anna Barbara Uhler on the same day.
The third trustee. Philip Fernsler, was proba- bly the John Philipp Firnszler whom Rev. Stoever had married thirty-four years earlier ** to Maria Bar- bara George, and who possibly had come over to America on September 2Ist, 1727, in the ship Wil- liam and Sarah .* This founder of the family had a son named John Philip, who was born in Sep- tember, 1734, and who was consequently 26 years of age when we first came across the Fernsler name as a Salem trustee in the old deeds. He was bap- tized and confirmed and was married to Christina Stoever .** He died in May, 1708, at the age of 73 years and 8 months. Private papers of the family mention Catherine, Philip, Christian and John as his children. The family lived in South Lebanon township on the farm adjoining the one now occu- pied by Adam Fernsler, one of the present Salem
*June 16, 1761, in Stoever Diary.
** April 26, 1731.
*The name is given as Philip Feruser in "Rupp's Thirty Thousand Names."
** The family had eight children, of whom seven were living at the time of the father's death (Salem Ch. Record).
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trustees, and the John Philip, of whom we are speaking, was buried at the Qruppen Kirch (Dr. Lochmann's spelling). John Philip must have been a man of business ability and of affairs. He was the executor of several estates, including that of Michael Fernsler. His own administrators were Frederick Fernsler and Tobias Fernsler.
Michael Fernsler was possibly another son of the original Fernsler and a brother of the second John Philip. He died about 1777 (Private papers of fam- ily. There is no record of his death in Salem Church Record) and left four children, Catharine (mr. John Imboden), Christiana (mr. Adam Dy- singer) and Peter and Elizabeth, minors, of whom Christopher Uhler was the guardian.
On March 6th, 1764, Jacob Firnsler was married by Rev. Stoever to Magdalena Peter, both of Leb- anon, and the next month, on April 5th, Barbara Firnsler was married by him. On August 15th, Philipp Firnssler and his wife, Anna Christina, were sponsors for one of Stoever's grandchildren. This fact and that of the marriage in the Stoever fam- ily presumes some degree of intimacy between the first pastor and the first trustee.
Of the fourth trustee, John Michael Rieter, the church record* says that he was born on Septem- ber 8, 1723, in Wuertemberg, and baptized and confirmed in the old country, and married there in 1748. In 1750 he came to America and came to
*Page 345.
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Lebanon in 1763 .* He is the only one of the trustees whose name appears on the record some years later (when it was begun) as a communicant member of the church .** Of these four families, two are still represented and very active in the con- gregation today, a century and a third after this beginning was made.
The four trustees were to be held strictly re- sponsible for the public and Lutheran trust they assumed, and on the same day on which the deed was executed they gave a legal Declaration of Trust* in which their powers were carefully delim- ited. Probably the experience of Rev. Stoever in seeing church properties diverted from their orig- inal doctrinal intention, caused him to be more than ordinarily careful in this matter. In the Declara- tion, the trustees as yoemen in the province of Pennsylvania, send greeting to all people to whom these presents may concern, and state that in a deed of even date with this Declaration, Rev. Stoever and Co. had made over to them a certain Lot of Ground in the town of Lebanon "containing in front on Water street eight perches and in depth to a lot of Peter Shofe twelve perches, and marked in the said plan of said town in trust for the use, intents and purposes in said Indenture," "and, whereas, there is now erecting or intending immediately
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