Jan. 4

BUERSTLER, Johann (second marriage) , b 1732 in Oley, Pa; farmer; widower; d 1790 in Bethlehem. He m. first in 1755, Eva Roth, from Alsace.

PLATTENBERGER, Anna Maria, b May 2 ,17 37 in the Lower Palatinate, the only dau. of Johann and Barbara; from Warwick, Pa; d Aug. 26 ,1Sß8 in Schoeneck, Pa.

By Brother Petri

July 15

MERCK, Johann Heinrich (second marriage), from Copenhagen; tailor; widower. He m. first, in 1757, Catharina E. Heyl.

WRIGHT, Anna, from Trenton, the eldest dau. of A. Rebecca Nixon.

By Brother Petrus

Nov. 29

THRANE, Amadeus Paul, b 1718 in Aalborg, Jutland; studied theology; served to church in Germany; from 1761 to 1776, the year o f his death, pastor of the Bethlehem congregation; d Apr. 19, 1776 in Bethlehem.

BENZIEN, Anna Maria (second marriage), b 1724, a dau. of Jacob and Anna Neisser; from Herrnhut; d Apr. 13, 1783 in Bethlehem. She m. first, Rev. Christian Thomas Benzien, who d 1757 in Nazareth.

By Brother Nathanael

PETR, John Friedrich (second marriage) , b. 1 707 in Brieborn, Silesia; assistant minister in. Neusalz, Germany, and Bethlehem, Pa ; d Apr. 29, ,17 91 in Bethlehem. He m. first, Susanna Jacksch, who d 1760 in Germany.

ENGEL, Anna Maria, mn. Nitschmann, b 1723 in Trautenau, Silesia; d Jan. 10, 1801 in Bethlehem. She in. first, in 1749, J. C. Gottfried Engel, who d in 1759 in Bethlehem.

By Brother Paul Muenster

ISLES (FILES) , Samuel , f loin Yorkshire England; missionary to the Negroes in the West Indies, where he d 1765. He m. first, in 1754, Molly Waters, from New York.

ZERB, Maria Margaret, b 1729; from Tulpehocken; d 1807 in Bethlehem. She m. secondly, in 1767, Paul Schneider, who d the same year; and thirdly, in 1769, J. Chr. Auerbach, who d in 1792.

By Brother Graff

SENSEMANN, Joachim (second marriage), from Hesse- Cassel; a baker; came to America in June 1742 with the "First Sea Congregation"; ordained a deacon in 1749; served among the Indians in Pachgatgoch, and among the Negroes in Jamaica, where he d 17 72. He m, first. Aug. 5, 1741 at Marienborn, Ann Catherine Ludwig, who lost her life in the Indian massacre a t the Mahoney, Nov, 24,1755,

RUBEL, Christina, b 1730 near the Brandywine, Pa ; d1818 in Bethlehem. She m. secondly, in 1774, the missionary Adrian Piepenburg, in Jamaica, who d 1781.

By Brother Schmick