I have known about this and tried to look in any Pennsylvania records I could find - thanks for the name of the Maryland book, will look there. > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Gerald Spore" <[email protected]> > To: <[email protected]> > Cc: <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> > Sent: Saturday, January 12, 2008 9:00 PM > Subject: [VASHENAN] Rev John Andrew Krug > > >> In connection with our Dressler and Spore research in Shenandoah Co., we >> have always been puzzled why my g-g-gm Maria Magdelina Dressler Spore's >> baptism shows up in the Monocacy Lutheran Church records in Frederick >> MD, >> when the family was believed to live in Frederick and Shen. Co. VA. >> This >> record is in a publication, "MARYLAND GERMAN CHURCH RECORDS, Vol 3 >> 1742-1779", Translated and edited by Frederick S. Weiser. >> >> "(The following were baptized by John Andrew >> Krug.) >> Maria Magdalena, dau. of Andreas and Maria Dressler, b 4 May 1771, >> bp. 21 June 1772. Sponsors: Heinrich and Rosina Voelckner" >> >> Then,on a hunch, I recently purchased a book, "THE LUTHERAN CHURCH IN >> VIRGINIA 1717-1962", by William Edward Eisenberg, 1967. In a short >> section on "VISITING PASTORS FROM MARYLAND AND PENNSYLVANIA", it reads, >> "During this trying period in American life and in the life of the >> Lutheran Church as a whole, pastors from Maryland and Pennsylvania were >> delegated to look after vacant Virginia congregations. Lovettsville was >> served from Frederick, Md., by John William Samuel Schwerdtfeger for >> some >> three years after its start; then by a Mr. Sartorius, about whom little >> is known; and then by John Andrew Krug, from approximately 1772-86. For >> several years Krug journeyed to Strasburg and Woodstock to preach and to >> give catechetical instruction. . . ." >> >> In another section on Rev. Paul Henkel, it is stated that he (Henkel) >> "studied theology under Pastor John Andrew Krug of Frederick, Md." >> >> Another interesting item in the book is this account--"The earliest >> parish record that has come to light is found in the register of the >> Lutheran Church at Frederick, Maryland. Pastor John Andreas Krug >> recorded the fact that on June 22, 1772, he confirmed a class of >> twenty-eight catechumens at Woodstock, Dunmore County, Virginia, and >> admitted them to their first communion. He then listed the twenty-eight >> names." >> >> Gerald L Spore >> (g-g-gson of Jacob Spore and Maria Magdelina Dressler, married in Shen. >> Co. in 1792) >> >> >> >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the >> quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > > ------------------------------- > To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to > [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the > quotes in the subject and the body of the message >