Besides Charles Frady (a.k.a. Carl Simon Wrede) of the last note, there were other Germans, on American soil in foreign armies during our Revolutionary War, who later were associated with the Hebron Lutheran Church. One of these was Georg Daniel Flohr who was in the French regiment, Royal Deux-Ponts, that was largely composed of Germans. We know something of Flohr because he left a diary of his experiences, in which he said the purpose was to describe towns, villages, hamlets, and plantations, as well as the habits and customs of the inhabitants. After the war was over, he returned to France and to Germany. He undertook a course of study in medicine but decided that the sight of blood was not to his liking. He returned to America and undertook a course of study in theology with Rev. William Carpenter at the Hebron Lutheran Church. We do not know why he chose to study here. He lived in Culpeper County and taught school while studying. By 1800, he had his own church(s) in southwestern Virginia where he lived out his life. He had a very open attitude toward dogma, as he had observed, while in the Deux-Ponts regiment, that the "natural religions" of Lutheranism, Reformed, and Catholic could all live together with the Baptists, Congregationalists, Quaker, Dunkers, Anabaptists, Jews, and Moravians. The story of Georg Daniel Flohr was told by Robert Selig in Beyond Germanna (BG 10:6:591ff).
During Rev. Carpenter's pastorate, the Hebron Church's organ was acquired in 1802. The " Kapellmeister " at the church was Frederic J. Schad, who was the organist and the music director. He also taught school. Schad was an ex-German soldier who chose to live in America. It would be desirable to know more about him.
The minister who followed Rev. Carpenter at Hebron was the son of another German soldier. This was the Rev. Michael Meyerhoeffer. (I keep hoping that Dr. Dorothy Boyd-Rush will reach into her history books and tell us more about this individual.)
It has been almost three weeks now since the November issue of Beyond Germanna was mailed to subscribers. This completed eleven years or sixty-six issues of it that have been published in a timely manner. A major portion of the issue is devoted to an in-depth examination of the Hebron Baptismal Register, which is not quite what it seems to be. The evidence is examined in considerable detail and the resolution of the apparent problems is given. One page of the issue is used to present an updated chart of the first three generations of the Rector family. This is the third time that a Rector chart has been presented, but it has been necessary to reissue the chart to stay up with the findings. Finally, the issue closes with a surname index to the volume. Volume number 12 should commence with the January issue.
We gratefully acknowledge the work of John Blankenbaker who published over 2,500 Germanna History Notes via the Germanna-L@rootsweb.com email list from 1997 to 2008. We are equally thankful to George Durman (Sgt. George) for hosting the list and republishing the notes via rootsweb.com.