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RichPea777

Posted: May 30 2008, 12:47 PM

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First Reformed Church of Lancaster Co. PA

Here are links to information and documents pertaining to the First Reformed Church of Lancaster County, PA. If you know of other places online with information about this church established in the early 1700's, please post links to them below.

This church was the place where Jacob Pea(Pie) and Rachel Maquinet(McNett) were married in 1761, and children of the Pie family were listed within the Birth and Baptismal records starting 1762.

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http://ftp.rootsweb.ancestry.com/pub/usgen...st-ref-lanc.txt

http://www.familyandlocalhistories.com/200...rmed-church.htm

http://www.genealogygoldmine.com/cemeterie...eformedCem.html

http://www.horseshoe.cc/pennadutch/religio...ed/reformed.htm

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In the Centenary Discourses delivered by Dr. Henry Harbaugh, at the First Reformed Church, Lancaster, Pennsylvania, on October xith and 12th, 1851, on the occasion of the celebration of the one hundred and fifteenth anniversary of that church, it was stated that "it was about the year 1700 that the First Reformed or Huguenot Palatinate and Swiss families settled in this State, and in this country." The Discourses, as edited by Rev. W. Stuart Cramer, D. D., and published in "The History of the First Reformed Church, Lancaster, Pa., 1736-1904," however, state:

Reformed families came to this province of Pennsylvania as early as 1683. In 1709 there was a large emigration from the Lower Palatinate, and also in 1712. Among these there were some who settled in the hounds of what is now Lancaster county; and some of their names are found on the first few pages of the baptismal records of this (the First Reformed, at Lancaster) church. Such as Weyandt, Ferri, Le Fevre, Slayniaker (Schleiermacher), Zimmerman (Carpenter) and Franciscus.

http://files.usgwarchives.org/pa/lancaster...st-ref-lanc.txt

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Rev. Wm. H. Bollman, D.D., Pastor

The exact date of the founding of First Reformed Church, Lancaster, is not known.� Some time between 1725 and 1732 Reformed people of the community began
worshipping in each others' homes, and with the "Hill Church".� By 1732 there
must have been a congregational organization, for when Conrad Tempelmann wrote to Holland in February, 1733, he described the Lancaster congregation as already consisting of 30 members, and mentioned three elders, John Jacob Hock, Andrew Halsbrum, and a third, unreadable, perhaps Nicholas Treber.
This is the earliest record of the congregation now known as First Church.� Nothing further is heard of it until the year 1736, when a log church was built upon the lot at Orange and Christian Streets where the present building stands.� Immediately
following the dedication of this building, John Jacob Hock, undoubtedly the same
mentioned above, started the first record book of the church (still in existence), which he entitled "Church Protocol of the newly-built Reformed Church here in the island of Pennsylvania in Caunastoken in the new town named Lancaster".

http://www.horseshoe.cc/pennadutch/history...ican/esh200.htm

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What has been the religious meaning of our 200 years? Religious fervor, transplauted here, flowered out into religious freedom-religious love, ripened into religious liberty. Bruised by the barbarous iron heel of an arrogant state church-filled with the horrors of religious bigotry-satiate with, and stung by the memory of the traditions and trials and turmoils and torments and the tortures, suffered by themselves and their ancestors for centuries, for conscience sake, these pious pioneers would not deny to any other soul, an equal freedom with their own, to worship God. And thus all creeds took root, at once, and flourished here. An English visitor to our country in its very infancy in 1744 wrote, "The religious that prevail here are hardly to be numbered" (An. Susq., p. 344).

The Mennonites planted their religion here in 1710-the Presbyterians, Quakers and Episcopalians theirs in 1719-the Reformed theirs in 1722 at Hellers-the Ephrata Dunkers, theirs in 1726-the Amish, theirs before 1730-the Lutherans, theirs in 1733-the Catholics, theirs In 1740-(9 L., 213 et. seq,)-the Jews, theirs in 1742, (3 L., 165)-the Moravians theirs the same year (9 L., 226)-Dunkards and Baptists, theirs equally early as most these-the Methodists, theirs some time afterwards -The United Brethern, the Reformed Mennonites, the Evangelical, United Evangelical, the Church of God, the Swedenborgen and a score of others, theirs in quick succession, until in modern times three dozen different creeds flourish here. And all, from the beginning, prospered and now prosper in peace and harmony together.

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Richard Jameson Pea

s/o LeRoy Frederic Pea (b. 1949)
s/o Harley Boone Pea (b. 1923)
s/o Harley Halstead Pea (b. 1887)
s/o Thomas Clinton Pea (b. 1857)
s/o Jacob Pea (b. 1831)
s/o Daniel Pea (b. 1795)
s/o John Jacob Pea (b. 1765)
s/o Jacob Pea/Pie (b. 1740)
s/o Unknown Pie (b. 17??) & Magdalene Unknown

"Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards as progress"

RichPea777

Posted: Jun 17 2008, 12:52 PM

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CHRISTMAS CUSTOMS OF LANCASTER COUNTY
by
Elizabeth Clarke Kieffer

http://www.lancasterhistory.org/highlights...s/christmas.htm

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From the records of the First Reformed Church, it is plain that, in the mid-eighteenth century, it was customary for children to receive their first communion on Christmas Day. In this same church, a hundred years later, Dr. Harbaugh, in further evidence of his love of Christmas, inaugurated the beautiful early morning service, which is still celebrated each Christmas dawn, using the same ritual, and the same music which he selected, and lighted by the blazing gas-lit star, which has been one of the mysterious marvels of Christmas for children of this community for nearly a hundred years.

At one time, I am told, it was customary for the choirs of all the Lancaster churches to unite, and to sing first at the five o'clock mass at St. Mary's Church, and again at the six o'clock service at First Reformed, an example of friendliness and toleration typical of the spirit of the community.

The Moravian Christmas Eve service at Lititz 4 was begun in 1759, and although later features have been added from time to time, the general outline has remained much the same. The trombone choir (originally French horns) ; the singing of stately old music, Mozart, Haydn, and the ancient chorales, with the beautiful, "Morning Star," beloved of Moravians everywhere; the "Liebesmahl" (those delicious sugared buns, and coffee); and the trays of lighted candles passed by the "diener" to each one present. The touching beauty of this service, as it is celebrated both in Lititz and in the Moravian church in Lancaster has reached the hearts of many people outside the Moravian brotherhood, and has become one of the dearest features of our local Christmas.

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REFORMED (GERMAN) CHURCH IN THE UNITED STATES
History, Doctrine, Worship, and Government

http://www.ccel.org/s/schaff/encyc/encyc09.../iv.vii.cvi.htm

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The founders of the church in this country were colonists from the Palatinate and other parts of western Germany and also from Switzerland. The first minister, Samuel Guldi (q.v.), came from Bern to America in 1710. The first purely German congregation was founded at Germania Ford, on the Rapidan, Va., 1714. But the first complete congregational organization took place 1725, when John Philip Boehm, a schoolmaster, organized the congregations at Falkner Swamp, Skippach, and White Marsh, Pa., according to the principles of Calvin, and adopted as standards the Heidelberg Catechism and the Canons of Dort. George Michael Weiss came in 1727 and organized the Philadelphia congregation. Boehm was ordained 1729 at New York by, the Dutch Reformed ministers under the authority of the classis of Amsterdam in Holland. In 1742 Count Zinzendorf tried to unite all the German churches and sects in Pennsylvania into one organization with the Moravians as the leading body. This was opposed by Boehm and Guldi (q.v.). In 1746 Michael Schlatter (q.v.) came from St. Gall, Switzerland, commissioned by the Reformed Church of the Netherlands to organize the Germans of Pennsylvania. After traveling much among the congregations, he completed their organization, begun by Boehm, by forming the coetus at Philadelphia Sept. 29, 1747, at which there were present four ministers and representatives from twelve charges. The second coetus (1748) completed the organization by adopting as its standards the Heidelberg Catechism and the Canons of Dort. It also adopted a constitution, which was Boehm's constitution of 1725 somewhat enlarged. In 1751 Schlatter returned to Europe, traveling through Holland, Germany, and Switzerland seeking aid for the Pennsylvania churches, and returned with six young ministers appointed by the Reformed Church of the Netherlands. Some effort was made, 1741-51, toward union with the Dutch Reformed and Presbyterians, but the attempt failed. The coetus continued under the control of the Reformed Church of the Netherlands, which sent thirty-eight ministers to America and spent about $20,000 on the American churches. The actions of the coetus were reviewed by the deputies of the Synods of North and South Holland and by the classis of Amsterdam. This relation to Holland continued until 1792, when the coetus virtually declared itself independent (see REFORMED [DUTCH] CHURCH, II., 3-8).

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RichPea777	Posted: Jun 17 2008, 01:02 PM
Administrator Group: Admin Posts: 162 Member No.: 1 Joined: 31-December 07	Life of the Rev. Henry Harbaugh, D.D. By Linn Harbaugh, Emanuel Vogel Gerhart http://books.google.com/books?hl=en&id=KeQ...num=5&ct=result Publications of Rev. Henry Harbaugh http://www.mammana.org/harbaugh/index.html -------------------- Richard Jameson Pea s/o LeRoy Frederic Pea (b. 1949) s/o Harley Boone Pea (b. 1923) s/o Harley Halstead Pea (b. 1887) s/o Thomas Clinton Pea (b. 1857) s/o Jacob Pea (b. 1831) s/o Daniel Pea (b. 1795) s/o John Jacob Pea (b. 1765) s/o Jacob Pea/Pie (b. 1740) s/o Unknown Pie (b. 17??) & Magdalene Unknown "Only a Genealogist regards a step backwards as progress"

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