THE EARLY GERMANS OF NEW JERSEY: THEIR HISTORY, CHURCHES AND GENEALOGIES By Theodore Frelinghuysen Chambers Preface This work is the result of an attempt to discover the exact time of the first settlement of New Jersey by people of the German race.
It is believed that this fact has been ascertained with sufficient certainty.
Between 1710 and 1713 nearly all palatines, who have left any trace of their presence, began to arrive in the State and to fulfill their important part in the upbuilding of this commonwealth.
In the course of this investigation extending, as it needs must do, in so many directions and having to do with so many records, a large amount of valuable material would naturally accumulate.
This has appeared to the author to be worth preserving, even though the labor and expense and risk of so large a book would be required for that purpose.
In tracing the families of the early settlers resort has been had to the records at Newton, Belvidere, Flemington, Somerville and Morristown.
Every one of the 62 books of wills at Trenton was examined separately.
The church records of Stillwater, German Valley, New Germantown, Lebanon and Mount Pleasant, were carefully compiled.
To gather additional data the inscriptions in 31 cemeteries from Newton to Flemington, including those of Lamington, Bedminster and Somerville, were copied.
Every county, church and family history procurable was consulted, and on this account the writer feels warranted in saying that the genealogies are as complete and accurate as they can be made.
Contents PART I.
The Celebration II.
Our German Forefathers III.
The Moravians IV.
The German Emigration V.
The German Immigrants VI.
Early Church History VII.
Carl Rudolph VIII.
John Albert Weygand IX.
Ludolph Heinrich Schrenck X.
The Muhlenbergs XI.
New Germantown and German Valley XII.
The German Reformed XIII.
Fairmount Presbyterian Church XIV.
Reformed Church of Lebanon XV.
Settlers of Upper German Valley XVI.
Settlers of.
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