Identifier: ancientmodernger01hotc (find matches)
Title: Ancient and modern Germantown, Mount Airy and Chestnut Hill
Year: 1889 (1880s)
Authors: Hotchkin, Samuel Fitch, 1833-1912
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Publisher: Philadelphia, Pa., P. W. Ziegler & co.
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
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of Frederick theGreat on a window pane in the Toland house. His grave is in the Presbyterianchurchyard at Lewisburg, Pa. The inscription runs: Here lies the body of Mathias Joseph Ellinkhuysen, Who departed this life July 17, 1792, Aged thirty-eight years and three months. Since it is so we all must die, And death doth no one spare; So let us all to Jesus fly. And seek for refuge there. James F. Linn, Esq., stated that Carl Ellinkhuysen, of Amsterdam, Holland,had the title to.all the town lots in Lewisburg, except seventeen, derived fromGeorge Derr, son of Ludwig Derr, the proprietor. Carl sent his son to thiscountry to look after his interest. He used to draw striking likenesses ofhis companions. His wife Clara Helena was a great skater, which wasnatural in a Dutch lady. The Wagner house is next to Tolands, and Mr. Justice W. Jordanss re-searches aided Ward here. In the Magazine of History, Vol. 5, p. 250, Mr. Wardsaid: John Zachary had purchased part in 1745 from John Theobald Ent,
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GERMANTOWN. 53 and in 1747 he built the present house. Mr. Jordan adds the following in-formation : Ent, or properly Endt, became an active Moravian. On January12, 1742, a Synod was held at his house. Count Zinzendorf presided. Endtschildren were pupils at the Moravian schools. Next to Endts house was that of the Rev. John Bechtel, a Palatine fromFranckenthal, wliose daughter married the Indian Missionary, Buttner.Bechtel prepared for the Moravian Church a reformed catechism, which wasprinted by Franklin in 1742. John Stephen Benezets house was near by.Zinzendorf came to Philadelphia in 1741. He boarded with Bechtel. In1746 Justice Peter MuUer, Englebert Lock, Jean de Dier, Peter Hoffman,Anthonjr Gilbert, Cornelius Weygand, Marcus Munzer and Hans Gerster re-quested the Moravians of Bethlehem to open a girls school in Germantown.Justice Bechtel o£fered the use of his house. The boarding and day schoolopened in September. Rev. James Greening and wife supervised it. TwoIndian girls atte

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