BIBLIOTHECA AUGUSTANA

 

Josua Harrsch alias Kocherthal

1669 - 1719

 

Kirchenbuch

 

Konfirmation

 

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Neo-Communicantium ad aram

First Communicants

 

By whose admission to communion with us the membership of our church has been increased. May you, dear reader, unite with me in the sincere prayer that all these will be and remain true and living members of the Church.

From among our own young people the following partook of holy communion with us for the first time.

 

The following persons united with our church

from other denominations:

 

1709

March 27, 1709, when holy communion was administered at

New York:

1.

Anna Maria Weigand.

 

1710

At the communion service in the colony on the Quasaic

Kill, April 1710:

2.

Maria Fisher.

At the communion service conducted by Daniel Falckner,

in my absence, about the middle of June 1710:

3.

Johannes Engel, formerly a member of the Episcopal Church.

At the second communion service conducted by Daniel Falckner

in the month of June 1710:

4.

Johannes Peter Eimer.

5.

Martin Rauscher.

6.

Johann Reitz Backus.

7.

Elisabetha Magdalena Steis.

8.

Anna Catharina Hostmann.

All of these were formerly members of the Episcopal Church.

At the communion service, conduced by myself in New York,

July 19, 1710:

9.

Johannes Winter.

10.

Johann Heinrich Nüss.

11.

Johann Conrad Friderich.

12.

Johann Bernhard Zipperlin.

13.

Anna Margretha Dörner.

14.

Anna Magdalena Rusch.

15.

Anna Maria Fuck.

16.

Anna Gertruda Vollbart.

17.

Anna Elisabetha Heypert.

18.

Anna Magdalena Sexer.

19.

Maria Elisabetha Walbuer.

20.

Maria Margretha Laux.

21.

Maria Barbara Eckhard.

22.

Maria Catharina Corhof.

23.

Maria Barbara Schmid.

24.

Anton Krämer.

25.

Johann Mohr.

26.

Johann Connrath.

27.

Wife of Jacob Sternberger.

28.

Wife of Johann Henrich Pöler.

29.

Wife of Johann Berg.

30.

Wife of Daniel Göttel.

31.

Anna Elisabetha Roschman.

32.

Wife of Johann Georg Mauer.

33.

Anna Margreth Reckfel.

All of these were formerly members of the Episcopal Church.

At the communion service which I conducted at New York,

Sept. 26, 1710:

34.

Johann Michael Rüd.

35.

Johann Peter Rüd.

36.

Sebastian Treber.

37.

Jacob Sternberger.

38.

Johanna Elisabetha Planck.

 

1711

At the communion administered by me in the new colony of

Germans, April 30, 1711:

39.

Johann Philipp Braun.

40.

Johann Georg Zeh.

41.

Johann Adam Ömich.

42.

Andreas Barthel.

43.

Johann Philipp Thais.

44.

Barthas Lutt.

45.

Susanna Gerdraut Michel.

46.

Maria Jacobina Hupfer.

47.

Barbara Schumacher.

48.

Maria Catharina Stüber.

The following from Episcopalian parentage:

49.

Johann Georg Winter.

50.

Maria Catharina Winter.

51.

Margretha Brucker.

52.

Sibylla Warno.

53.

Maria Catharina Ober.

Formerly members of the Episcopal Church.

June 24th, 1711:

52.

Johann Niclaus Wolleben.

53.

Anna Margretha Eschenreiter, formerly Episcopalian.

 

1712

At the communion service held March 23, 1712, in Queensberg:

54.

Philip Balthasar Barthel.

55.

Bartel Müller.

56.

Johann Georg Eckhart.

57.

Andreas Pfeister.

58.

Johann Heinrich Schaster.

59.

Dietrich Demuth.

60.

Johann Georg Rau.

61.

Johann Jacob Zerb.

62.

Peter Landmann.

63.

Johann Georg Loscher.

64.

Maria Barbara Propert.

65.

Catharina Feg.

66.

Maria Gerdraut Hagendorn.

67.

Anna Catharina Haupt.

68.

Margaretha Elisabetha Schaster.

69.

Anna Catharina Wust.

70.

Catharina Elisabetha Bardorst (Orf).

71.

Maria Elisabeth Mannich.

72.

Anna Christina Rausch.

73.

Elisabetha Losch.

74.

Anna Margaretha Schäster.

75.

Anna Albertina Taus.

76.

Anna Christina Gockel.

77.

Anna Catharina Has.

78.

Sophia Elisabeth Margaretha Mertz.

June 16, 1712 in Newtown:

79.

Johann Daniel Worms.

80.

Johann Peter Tobich.

81.

Johann Balthasar Küster.

82.

Johann Lampert Sternberger.

83.

Maria Elisabeth Weerich.

84.

Margaretha Lein.

85.

Anna Maria Demuth.

86.

Catharina Streit.

87.

Ursula Streit.

88.

Maria Magdalena Werner.

formerly of the Episcopal Religion.

 

1713

Easter, 1713, at New Town:

89.

Johann Georg Schmid.

90.

Johann Georg Wennerich.

91.

Johann Martin Burckhard.

92.

Andreas Guntermann.

93.

Johann Michael Schauer.

94.

Anna Barbara Listenus.

95.

Christina Arnold.

October 25, 1713, at Queensberg:

96.

The wife of Martin Zerb,

formerly of the Episcopal Church.

 

1714

February 7, 1714, at Schoharie:

97.

Johann Ludwig Castelmann.

Easter, 1714, at New Town:

98.

Johann Georg Kreystler.

99.

Johann Friedrich Demuth.

100.

Anna Barbara Richter.

101.

Anna Margretha Backus.

102.

Maria Gerdraut Heckmann.

At Queensberg:

103.

Johann Georg Baunert.

104.

Johann Peter Laux.

105.

Jürg Adam Zufeld.

106.

Andreas Widerwachs.

107.

David Schurtz.

108.

Conrad Loscher.

109.

Johann Christian Berg.

110.

Susanna Margretha Forster.

111.

Elisabeth Hassmann.

 

1715

April 3, 1715, at Rheinbeck:

112.

Valtin Schäster.

Easter, 1715, at Queensberg:

113.

Johann Niclaus Steiger.

114.

Johann Henrich Michel.

115.

Johann Adam Schmid.

116.

Johann Mattheus Lauer.

117.

Johanna Maria Beck.

118.

Anna Elisabeth Stuber.

119.

Anna Elisabeth Schmid.

120.

Maria Catharina Schmid.

 

1716

January 22, 1716, in Schoharie:

121.

Philipp Moor.

January 24, 1716:

122.

The daughter of Gerhard Schaster.

123.

Ulrich Bruckhard,

formerly of the Episcopal Church.

February 16, 1716, at New Town:

124.

Anna Sibylla Schaster.

October 14, 1716, at Rheinbeck:

125.

Anna Catharina Ebert.

126.

Anna Maria Dippel.

The father of the following is reformed:

127.

Anna Margaretha Kaputzgin.

128.

Anna Dorothea Kaputzgin.

St. Stephan's Day, 1716 at Kingsberg:

129.

Anna Gerdraut Wust.

130.

and Kunigunda Winter.

whose father and mother are Episcopal.

 

1717

April 14, 1717, at Kingsberg:

131.

Friedrich Rau.

132.

Elisabetha Mertz.

133.

Maria Catharina Roschmann.

April 29, 1717, at Rheinbeck:

134.

Amalia wife of Georg Saltzmann,

whose parents were Dutch Reformed.

Easter 1717, at New Town:

135.

Niclaus Schmidt.

136.

Johannes Greysler.

137.

Catharina Susanna Küster.

138.

Christiana Clara Müller.