1767 Southfork
Communion Service
Records of the Evangelical Reformed
Church of Frederick, Maryland include the 1767-1768 communions served
under the pastorate of Carolus Lange. Among these were those held
in Virginia (including what is now West Virginia) in late 1767:
Strassburg or Staefer Town on August 30th, Southfork on November 8th,
Southbranch in the Gap on November 10th, and Southbranch in the Upper
Tract on November 15th. Detail of the Southfork communion below
are as listed in volume 5 of Weiser's "Maryland German Church
Records."
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- "On November
8th, [1767] there were present at the Communion Service at the
Southfork, in Virginia, the following communicants, besides the 13
catechumens:"
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- Antony Hornbeck
- Antony Rieger, Sr.
- Antony Rieger, Jr.
- Georg Dunckel
- Heinrich Moock
- Heinrich Stihl
- Herman Schuck
- Johannes Dunckel
- Johannes Erdtmann
- Johannes Kimmel
- Johannes Streckler
- Michael Alth
- Michael Dorn
- Michael Stumpf, Justice
- Michael Wildfang
- Philipp Moor
- Wilhelm Schuck
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- Anna Maria Steiner
- Anna Reiger
- Barbara Becker
- Barbara Rohrback
- Catharina Bober
- Catharina Dorn
- Catharina Moor
- Christina Zweitizig
- Elisabetha Nef
- Elisabetha Wiltz
- Margaretha Brechtel
- Margaretha Schuck
- Margaretha Zweitzig
- Margaretha Daecher
- Maria Dunckel
- Maria Kraehmer
- Maria Moor
- Susanna Dschontz
- Susanna Kauzmann
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Compare to the Anglicized names in the
1782
Virginia census for Hampshire County which included Hornbeck, Steel
(Stihl), Alt (Alth), Regar (Rieger), Stump (Stumpf), Moak (Mook), Shook
(Schuck) and Kimbell (Kimmel). Note also the name Bober, the
maiden name of Johannes Kimmel's wife.
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