Muddy Creek Charge (East Cocalico, PA)

Collection

Identifier: Church RG 054

Staff Only

Scope and Contents

The Muddy Creek Charge collection consist of three boxes containing: Bulletins. Cemetery Records. Church records: Baptisms, 1728-1968.; Marriages, 1730-1969; Deaths, 1730-1968; Confirmations; Communicants. Consistory Minutes, 1912-1967. Financial Records. History. News Clippings. Legal Records. Photographs. Constitution. Hinke, William J. "History of the Muddy Creek Reformed Congregation." In: PAPERS READ BEFORE THE LANCASTER COUNTY HISTORICAL SOCIETY Vol. 36, no. 11 (1932). 272-295. (Church RG 054; Box 2; ff 1) Lausch, H. Martin. HISTORICAL REVIEW OF THE MUDDY CREEK EVANGELICAL LUTHERAN CHURCH....[1982?] (Church RG 054; Box 2; ff 1) Hinke, William J. and Weiser, Frederick S. RECORDS OF PASTORAL ACTS AT THE LUTHERAN AND REFORMED CONGREGATIONS OF THE MUDDY CREEK CHURCH, EAST COCALICO TOWNSHIP, LANCASTER COUNTY, PENNSYLVANIA, 1730-1790. Breinigsville, PA: The Pennsylvania German Society, 1981. (Church RG 054; Box 1; ff 6) Rink, Franz and Frederick S. Weiser. "Records of the Muddy Creek Moravian Congregation." Contains some baptisms by Reformed Church pastors. Church Records (transcribed). Baptisms, 1730-1747; Constitution; Deeds. Zacharias Collection. (Church RG 054; Box 1; ff 7)

Dates

Creation: 1728 - 1969

Conditions Governing Use

Biographical / Historical

This union church was established as early as 1731 as evidenced by baptismal entries in the Lutheran record book, although the children were baptized by Reformed pastor, John Peter Mueller. A log structure was built about 1732 and replaced by a stone structure with a brick or tile floor in 1750, followed by another stone building in 1847. This structure was demolished in 1938 to make way for a new building dedicated in 1939. The Reformed congregation was served by a succession of relatively short pastorates (six years or less) until John Christopher Gobrecht served from 1770 to 1779. The longest pastorate was that of Daniel Hertz from 1822 to 1867 followed by Stephen Schweitzer from 1871 to 1914. The union church was dissolved in 1967 with the Lutherans purchasing the Reformed portion of the property and the Reformed (UCC) congregation merging with St. Paul's UCC, Adamstown, PA. and forming a new church, Peace UCC in Denver (Schwartzville), PA. Reformed Pastors: 1731-1734 John Peter Mueller 1743-1745 Jacob Lischy 1745-1748 John Conrad Tempelman 1749-1751 John Dominicus Bartholomaeus 1751-1752 Frederick Casimir Mueller 1752-1754 John Waldschmidt 1755-1761 John Henry Decker 1765-1766 Frederick Julius Berger 1766-1770 John George Wittner 1770-1779 John Christopher Gobrecht 1780-1786 supplies 1786-1790 Anthony Hautz 1790-1802 John Christian Wilms 1803-1807 Charles Helffenstein 1807-1819 John Theobald Faber, Jr. 1819-1822 Frederick A. Herman 1822-1867 Daniel Hertz 1871-1914 Stephen Schweitzer 1914-???? Martin Sweitzer

Extent

1 Cubic Feet

Language of Materials

English

German

Additional Description

Related Materials

For: Additional copy of Cemetery Records copied by J. Zeamer, 1910 SEE ALSO: Microfilm #117 For: Additional copy of Transcription of Lutheran Church Records by John Casper Stoever, 1730-1745 transcribed by Wiliam J. Hinke SEE ALSO: Microfilm #70 For: Additional copy of Transcription of Church Records, 1730-1790 by William J. Hinke & Frederick S. Weiser, 1981 SEE ALSO: Microfilm #265 For: Transcription of Church Records, 1743-1871 by William J. Hinke, 1942 SEE ALSO: MKZZ LA R10-11, 20 or Loan Microfilm #130 For: Additional copy of original Church Records, 1743-1916 & Financial Records, 1815-1898 SEE ALSO: Microfilm #178 For: Transcription of Pastoral Records, 1752-1786 of John Waldschmidt found with the records from Egypt Reformed Church SEE ALSO: Church RG 011 Box 001 FF004 For: Pastoral Records: Marriages, 1823-1868 of Daniel Hertz (1796-1868) SEE ALSO: Ms. Coll. 057 or Microfilm #265 For: Pastoral records, 1868-1914 of Stephen Schweitzer (1842-1914) SEE ALSO: Ms. Coll. 155 or Microfilm #178 or #280 For: Pastoral Records, 1914-1937 of Martin W. Schweitzer SEE ALSO: Ms. Coll. 155 or Microfilm #280 For: Additional copy of Consistory Minutes, 1938-1962 SEE ALSO: Microfilm #265 RG#64 (Lancaster Classis parochial reports of Muddy Creek Charge) For: Wooden Sunday School Collection Box SEE ALSO: Artifact #354 in AB1 For: Scrap book of Muddy Creek by Martin Schweitzer SEE ALSO: Ms. Coll. 155 For: Information & Photographs regarding church pewter found in PEWTER IN PENNSYLVANIA GERMAN CHURCHES, by Donald M. Herr SEE ALSO: F 146 .P232 v.29