erne County and had died in the conflict with the Indians. Frederick was the eighth and last. He was baptized a Lutheran, into the faith of his fathers, and probably at Linglestown Shoop Church, the same place where his sister Barbara and his brother John Peter had been baptized before him.3 There appears to be no record that the Lutheran itinerant preacher, Rev. John Casper Stoever, baptized or married any of the children of Hans Peter's third marriage. Indeed, when Hans Peter was married to Ann Dissinger in 1777, Stoever would have been an old man ready to put aside his labors. If Stoever's ministry terminated fifty years after it began in 1728 when he first came to Philadelphia, he would have retired from his preaching mission some time in 1778, but not before he had rendered ministerial services for Hans Peter and two of his children by a previous marriage. In 1770 Hans Peter himself, a widower with eight children, asked Rev. Stoever when he came Bethel way again 4
erne County and had died in the conflict with the Indians. Frederick was the eighth and last. He was baptized a Lutheran, into the faith of his fathers, and probably at Linglestown Shoop Church, the same place where his sister Barbara and his brother John Peter had been baptized before him.3 There appears to be no record that the Lutheran itinerant preacher, Rev. John Casper Stoever, baptized or married any of the children of Hans Peter's third marriage. Indeed, when Hans Peter was married to Ann Dissinger in 1777, Stoever would have been an old man ready to put aside his labors. If Stoever's ministry terminated fifty years after it began in 1728 when he first came to Philadelphia, he would have retired from his preaching mission some time in 1778, but not before he had rendered ministerial services for Hans Peter and two of his children by a previous marriage. In 1770 Hans Peter himself, a widower with eight children, asked Rev. Stoever when he came Bethel way again 4
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