Andreas asked that I share the following: On this historic date we report that we discovered a 1739 German letter by the Lutheran pastor George Samuel Klug in which he reports his Orange County, Virginia, situation to friends in Pennsylvania. He related that the Lutheran congregation had secured eight Blacks for their pastor, six of which were supposed to grow tobacco under an overseer employed for that purpose. Two Blacks were assigned to work on the pastor's land and new house; the church was already under construction. On the more trivial side, Klug also ordered 2 pounds of tea and was interested in obtaining a traverse flute. Sandra

Can it be determined from the letter whether he expected to purchase the traverse (transverse) flute in Pennsylvania or have it ordered from Europe?  I am interested in letters written back to their home country to requesting items to be sent to the colonies. Suzanne ________________________________ From: Sandra H. Yelton <sehyelton@triad.rr.com> To: "germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com" <germanna_colonies@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, January 20, 2009 9:31:20 PM Subject: [GERMANNA] 1739 Klug Letter Andreas asked that I share the following: On this historic date we report that we discovered a 1739 German letter by the Lutheran pastor George Samuel Klug in which he reports his Orange County, Virginia, situation to friends in Pennsylvania.  He related that the Lutheran congregation had secured eight Blacks for their pastor, six of which were supposed to grow tobacco under an overseer employed for that purpose.  Two Blacks were assigned to work on the pastor's land and new house; the church was already under construction.  On the more trivial side, Klug also ordered 2 pounds of tea and was interested in obtaining a traverse flute. Sandra ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to GERMANNA_COLONIES-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message