The Rev. Jacob Frank commenced service as a pastor of the German Lutheran Church in Culpeper County, Virginia, on November 5, 1775. (The church is known today as "Hebron".) On the following Christmas Day (a Monday), a Communion Service was held. In Note 500 of the Web Page at germhs20.html , I gave a list of the people who attended this Communion on December 25, 1775. These would be the people who were confirmed. Between the arrival of Rev. Franck/Frank, on November 5, 1775, and Christmas that year, there was another Communion Service in which the people partaking were recorded. This was a shorter list and it is given here. (Modern spellings are used, and information added in brackets [. . . ] is by me):
Adam Gaar, wife Elizabeth [Käfer]
John Yager, wife Mary Willheit
Adam Yager, Sen.
John Zimmerman, Sen. [Carpenter]
Adam Broyles, wife Mary
Michael Yager, wife Elizabeth [Manspiel]
Philip Chelf, wife Barbara [Yager]
Jacob Henrickson, wife Mary
Michael Snyder, wife Mary [Delph]
Conrad Delph, wife Magdalena [Castler]
Peter Redman
Nicholas Yager, wife Susanna [Willheit]
Martin Deer, wife Veronica
Henry Miller, wife Susanna [Sibler]
Eberhard Reiner
Henry Aylor, wife Anna Margaret [Thomas]
John Frey, wife Rebecca [Swindle]
David (Weib?)
George Cook
Elizabeth Cook
[Michael] Blankenbaker, wife Elizabeth [Garr]
John Fleshman, wife Elizabeth [Blankenbaker]
Anna Barbara [Blankenbaker] Fisher
Dorothy [Blankenbaker] Gaar
Elizabeth Ehrhardt
Anna Maria Ehrhardt
Christina [Finks] Blankenbaker
Catharine [Fleshman] Broyles
Elizabeth Clerks
Catharine Clore
Mary Zimmerman [or Carpenter?]
Margaret Zimmerman [or Carpenter?]
Elizabeth Böhme
Jacob Frank, wife Barbara
Zacharias Blankenbaker, wife Els [Finks?]
If any reader can expand on the details for these names, it would be welcome. I do not know as much as I would like about Chelf, Redman, Ehrhardt, Clerke, and Böhme. Also, I would like to know the maiden names of the wives where they are not given. Of the women who are listed without a husband, I do not know if they were single or married.
(26 Dec 00)
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