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Subject: [NJHUNTER] LASHLY & DUNKARDS
Date: Sun, 30 Jun 2002 10:18:17 -0400

Last week I posted a query about a place called ca. 1738 "Lashly's land"
in the Janeway account books.
I was re-reading Chambers' Early Germans of New Jersey and think I may
have answered my own question.

"The Whitehouse [Hunterdon County] Congregation

Tradition says that there were at least two log meeting houses in the
vicinity of Whitehouse at a very early date. The Lutheran Church was on
the southwest corner of the Davis tract in old Leslysland. This is
diagonally opposite the old Methodist cemetery. It was said to have been
a log building, with a burying-ground adjacent. It can hardly be wrong to
date this building between 1721 and 1729. At the earlier date services
were still held in the Pickel home. The later date marks the removal of
Baltes Pickel from Whitehouse.

Johan Balthasar Pickel early-assumed responsibility in the affairs of the
young Lutheran congregation. This is evident by the use of his and his
mothers homes. The place of the meeting in 1715 was given as Nine-Mile
Run and in 1716 as Matthias Reinbolds place on Nine-Mile Run. After
Baltes was married on 3 August 1718 in New York to Anna Gertrude Reiter,
the meetings were in his home. Thus at least five of the eight services
held by Justus Falckner after the one in 1714 were held in the homes of
the Pickel family. It was Baltes Pickel who built, at his own expense,
the Racheway Church (at todays Potterstown) about 1729 and the
Leslysland Church in 1735 serving the district between Whitehouse and
North Branch."

For a number of reasons, this seems to fit.

Now, does anyone know how to get more information about "the Davis
tract"? Would the West Jersey Proprietors still have those kinds of
records. Has anyone ever used them?
Marilyn

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