Marshall, On the microfilm the church is identified as "Nordhofen Dekanat: Selters" and it could be that the church was actually located in Nordhofen. Nordhofen is about one mile south of Selters; Selters was the village where the BELLESFELTs lived. Maxsain is 1.8 miles northeast of Selters. The church seemed to have members mainly living in Vielbach/Fullbach, Moggendorf, Quirenbach, Selters, Kullberg?, and Nordhofen although every now and then there'd be folks from Maxsayn/Maxsain and other villages not so far away. I don't know if there'd be another Reformed church located so close by in 1717...but have no idea. There are about 10 LDS films of the Nordhofen church books, but only two are of the period that interested me: #1552890 covers 1659-1836 #1195112 covers 1659-1790 I can't confirm if the Paul KUHL involved with the founding of the Amwell German Reform church is the same man naturalized in 1730; that has been my working assumption but I don't know the KUHL lineage well enough. Online databases indicate that the mother of the Paul married to Eva KAES was Anna Veronica STAADS. STAADT/STAAD/ attended the Nordhofen church. So did HUMMER/HUMMERICH, JUNG, DIETZ, ALLER, HOFFMAN, BERG, and of course BELLESFELTs which are surnames of other men also naturalized the same day as Paul in 1730. One of Paul KUHL's descendants married a descendant of immigrant Adam BELLESFELT and ended up with Adam's old homestead which was located on the south side of Kuhl Road just east of Copper Hill. The only Larison's Corner church record I've seen is what's online: http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/nj/hunterdon/church/amwell.txt For a good German map website, try: http://www.germany-tourism.co.uk/pages/detailmaps.html Just fill in the "city" field and up comes a map which you can "enlarge", although it's not immediately evident which icon is "enlarge"; there is a zoom function as well. You can also seek directions between two towns. This feature is called "Route Planner" found under the red tab marked "Travel". If you type in Selters or Nordhofen the system will come back wanting you to designate which one. Our particular Selters is in Rheinland-Pfalz (56242) as is Nordhofen; there's only one Maxsain. Roz BELLIS Alexandria VA -----Original Message----- From: Marshall Lake [mailto:mlake@mlake.net] Sent: Wednesday, August 09, 2006 9:48 PM To: NJWARREN-L@rootsweb.com Subject: RE: [NJWARREN] Fries family - John and Catherine > Peter's parents were Andreas BELLESFELT and Maria SCHNUCH (SNOOK/SCHNUG) > who apparently did not immigrate to America. Peter and his brothers > were baptized at the Reformed Church in Selters, Germany. Members of > the KUHL family also attended the Selters church and immigrated to > Hunterdon Co NJ. Paul KUHL and a few of Peter BELLESFELT's siblings were > founders of the Amwell German Reformed Church at Larison's Corner in > 1749. Is this the same Paul KUHL who was naturalized as "Paul Kole" 8 Jul 1730? He married Eva Maria KAES and is buried in the Kuhl Burial Ground, Copper Hill, Amwell Township, Hunterdon Co. If so, I have from another researcher that (Johann) Paul KUHL was born on 24 Mar 1700 in Maxsain, Neuweid-Westerwald, Germany and confirmed in Maxsain in 1717. Is Selters in the Maxain area? Are the records for the Selters church available somewhere ... LDS church maybe? Are the records for the Amwell German Reformed Church at Larison's Corner available? -- Marshall Lake -- mlake@mlake.net -- http://mlake.net ==== NJWARREN Mailing List ==== You can contact the listowner at: Judy@BirdGenealogy.org ============================== New! Family Tree Maker 2005. Build your tree and search for your ancestors at the same time. Share your tree with family and friends. Learn more: http://landing.ancestry.com/familytreemaker/2005/tour.aspx?sourceid=14599&ta rgetid=5429