Register
- Marriages, 1743
Mar.
9 (N.S.) |
OKELY
, John, of Bedford, England; scrivener, conveyancer, |
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Justice
of the Peace; itinerant preacher in eastern Pennsylvania; d May 15,
1792 in Lancaster. He m. secondly in 1745, Elizabeth Hume, b 1690
in Berwick on the Tweed, England, dau. of Dr. Alexander Home; she
came to New York in 17389 end d 1775 in Bethlehem.
He m. thirdly, Feb. 8, 1780, Margaret, mn. Moore, widow of Matthias
Graff, of Lancaster, who d 1789 in Lancaster.
ROBINS, Johanna, b 1715 in Maryland, of Quaker parentage; d 1745 in
Bethlehem.
By Brother Boehler
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Mar. 27/ Apr.
7 |
SHAW, Joseph,
b near St. James, London; came to Penn- |
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sylvania
with the First Sea Congregation; schoolmaster; served in the Minisinks;
ordained In 1747; with his-second wife, Mary Heap, of Philadelphia,
lost at sea while enroute to St. Thomas, in Oct. 1747.
JONES, Maria, of Philadelphia; d Sep. 29, 1746 in Wal- pach beyond
the Blue Mountain and d in Bethlehem.
By Brother Boehler, in Philadelphia
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June 12/23 |
RONNER,
Johann Reinhard, b 1698 near Strassburg, |
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Alsace;
came to Pennsylvania in 1742; button maker; ordained a deacon in 1743;
served in various congregations, and in the West India mission 1750-1755;
d July 1756 in Bethlehem. FISSLER, Elizabeth, b 1717 in Floex, Switzerland;
lately from Philadelphia; served as deaconess; d Feb. 1771 in Bethlehem.
By Brother Anton
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Aug. 24/Sep.
4 |
POST, Christian
Friedrich, b 1710 in Conitz, Polish |
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Prussia;
a joiner by trade; one of The foremost Moravian missionaries to the
Indiana; d Apr, 1785 in Germantown, Pa. He m. secondly, Sep. 24, 1748,
Agnes, a Dela- ware Indian, who d July 8,1751 near Bethlehem; and
m. thirdly,________ |
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RACHEL, an
Indian of the Wampanoag Tribe, from She- komeko, N.Y.; d Dea. 26,
1747 in Bethlehem.
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Sept. 25/Oct.
6 |
GAMBOLD, Hector,
b Sep. 4, 1719 in South Wales; came |
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to
America with the First Sea Congregation in 1742; ordained a deacon
in 1755 and served in the ministry in Pennsylvania, New Jersey, and
New York; d Nov. 10, 1788 in Bethlehem.
GREGG Eleonora, b 1718 in Ireland; d Apr. 6, 1792 in Bethlehem. They
had issue, two sons; their son John was a pioneer missionary to the
Cherokee Ind- lane.
By Brother Boehler
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The two dates
represent Old Style and New Style reckonings, a method of recording dates
in common use by the Moravians in this country until 1752 when the Gregorian
calendar was finally adopted in England.
[The above
records are from pages 5-6 of original text]
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