At 05:34 PM 9/26/97 -0400, you wrote: Wilmer, Thank you very kindly for such a thorough and helpful response. I've used some of your excellent ref. material in my research -- they have it at the Newberry Library in Chicago. It's great to see you're so active on this list -- of which I'm a newbie. I'll contact the Handley Library in Winchester for more info. Good luck on compiling on you church project and other research. Jennifer >Jennifer, > >The Rev. Christian Streit (1749-1812) was the first Lutheran pastor born on >American soil. Streit earned B.A. and M.A. degrees from the University of >Pennsylvania, and was closely associated with the Muhlenburg family. He >served as a chaplain in the Revolutionary War, and held several pastorates >before coming to Winchester in 1785 to pastor the Lutheran Church until his >death in 1812. Frequently, he preached and performed ceremonies and >sacraments in small congregations in the Shenandoah Valley and what is now >the eastern panhandle of West Virginia. Rev. Streit's Journal is preserved >in the Handley Regional Library, Archives Division, in Winchester. > >The location of the Old Lutheran Church was in what is now the Mt. Hebron >Cemetery in Winchester. Some ruins of the historic church are preserved, >namely a limestone wall. > Jennifer Mindscape: a place where ideas, language and the imagination converge www.netcom.com/~jahmn/today.htm