Records : of the Hebron Lutheran Church (Madison, Va.), 1750-1850.

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Records : of the Hebron Lutheran Church (Madison, Va.), 1750-1850.

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The collection contains transliterations from the original German, 1974, by William Edward Eisenberg, of signers of the congregational constitution, 1776, baptismal records, 1750-1848, communion records, 1775-1812, and lists of sponsors and godparents. There are also excerpts from books mentioning the church and the Henkel family, and a photocopy and transcript of a 1776 petition to the House of Delegates for exemption from parochial taxes to the established church.

90 leaves.

University of Virginia. Library

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University of Virginia. Library

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Hebron Lutheran Church (Madison, Va.)

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Hebron Church is the oldest Lutheran congregation in Virginia and in the South. It worships in the oldest Lutheran church building in continuous use. Hebron was never a union church, even though when the first Lutherans came to Virginia in 1717 they were settled near the German colony of Reformed who had come in 1714 and with whom they were closely associated. The church, organized in 1717 and built in 1740, Spotsylvania, 1721 (moved 1725), Orange, 1734, Culpeper, 1749 and Madison, 1793. ...

Eisenberg, William Edward

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Henkel family.

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