of Gov. John Andrew Shulze, of Lebanon, Pa. Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg had two other daughters whose names have not reached us. Mr. Muhlenberg continued to live at Trappe till 1761, when he removed to Philadelphia to give better attention to his church there; but fifteen years later, in1776, returned and resided here till his demise, October 6th, 1787, when he died, aged 76. His wife, Anna Maria, was born 1727, survived till 1802, August 23d, and died at the age of 75. Their bodies lie beside each other and beneath a marble slab. in Augustus' Church Cemetery.

GENERAL PETER MUHLENBERG was born at Trappe, Oct. 1, 1746. At the age of sixteen, with his two younger brothers,. he was sent to Halle, Germany, to receive an education. Being of a bold, resolute turn of mind, and a wild American, he could not endure the restraints of the school, so he left it and joined a German regiment as a soldier. From this position he was rescued through the influence of an English officer, with whom he returned to America again. He completed. his studies under his father, and prepared for ordination in the Swedish Lutheran Church. In order to accomplish this he went to England in 1772 in company with Bishop White to receive Episcopal ordination. On his return he took charge of several churches near Woodstock, Dunmore county, Virginia, where he remained until the breaking out of the Revolutionary war. Here he was in the hot-bed of Virginia discontent during the arbitrary acts of the British government, and being an ardent Whig was sent by them to the House of

gesses, where, of course, he sympathized with the patriot cause. About the middle of January, 1776, as foreign invading armies began to land on our shores, he resolved to leave the pulpit for the army. He prepared a sermon on "the duties. men owe their country," which he preached, adding at the conclusion "there is a time for all things-a time to preach and a time to fight-and now is the time to fight." He at once descended from the pulpit, took off his gown, which had covered a Colonel's uniform, and told his people he was ready to serve his country thenceforth. He read his commission, ordered drummers to beat for recruits, and within a few days

three hundred men of his own churches had enlisted for the war. It was not long till he had a full regiment mustered into service. His first military service was in Georgia and South Carolina, but he soon joined the army under Washington. In February, 1777, he was promoted to the rank of Brigadier General, and in that year participated in the battles of Brandywine and Germantown, and at Valley Forge held the advance of the encampment. He was also engaged in the battle of Monmouth on the retreat of the British, and was one of the captors of Stony Point under General Wayne. On the tide of war rolling South, Gen. Muhlenberg followed, and was at the taking of Yorktown in 1781. He continued in the army until it was disbanded, and received the brevet rank of Major General. He is one of the brigade commanders of the Continental army whose record was tarnished by no defeat, and whose name is not specially distinguished by any victory. He appears never to have returned to the pulpit, but sought and obtained honorable employment in civil life. Such confidence was reposed in him that he was chosen a member of the Supreme Executive Council of the State, and elected its vicePresident in 1787. This body performed the functions of Governor till 1790, when Mifflin was chosen under the new State Constitution. As soon as the federal government went into operation in 1789 he was chosen a member of Congress, and served from that year to 1795; and after an interregnum of four years, during which he served in the State Assembly one year, 1797, was elected again in 1799 and served till session 1801, during which year, in February, he was chosen to represent our State in the U. S. Senate. He seems to have

resigned this post soon after, and was succeeded by George Logan, and on the following June was appointed by President Jefferson Supervisor of Federal Revenues in Pennsylvania. In 1803 he was appointed Collector of the Port of Philadelphia, which he held till his death in 1807. He died at the age of 62. All these offices he seems to have filled with scrupulous fidelity; and in a notice of his death by the Aurora it says: "In private life just, in domestic life affectionate and sincere, his body lies beside his father's at the Trappe Church."

He not only filled the foregoing numerous public trusts but was named on the commission to manage the drawing of a lottery in aid of the fund to build Perkiomen bridge on the Reading and Germantown turnpike at the crossing of that stream. A friend at Freeland has placed in our hands the following relic of said lottery. It is without date, but is supposed to belong to the year 1800 or 1801:

[No.

PERKIOMEN BRIDGE LOTTERY.

CLASS THE FIRST.

THIS Ticket entitles the Bearer to fuch prize as may be drawn againft its number, if demanded within twelve months after the publication of the fortunate numbers, fubject to a deduction of twenty per cent.

P. Muhlenberg.

General Francis Swayne, a brother-in-law, was his executor. It is proper to add here that General Peter Muhlenberg has been selected as one of the two distinguished Pennsylvanians who are awarded statues in the Federal Capitol.

HON. FREDERICK AUGUSTUS MUHLENBERG, son of Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, was the second son, and not less brilliant and distinguished than his brother Peter He was born June 2d, 1750, and remained at the University of Halle, where his father had placed him with Peter, till he became an accomplished scholar. After graduating in Germany he returned and took charge of a church in New York, but on the breaking out of the Revolution left it in consequence of the entry of the British into that city. The stirring events of the war seem to have secularized him, as they did his brother Peter, for we find him elected to the State Assembly in 1779. In 1783 he was chosen one of the Executive Council, and in 1784 was appointed a Justice of the Peace, and also the same year one of the first Judges for Montgomery county. Leaving that position soon after his selection he accepted that of Register

and Recorder for the new county of Montgomery, holding it from 1784 to 1789. The latter year he was elected a representative to Congress, and had the honor of being the first Speaker. He continued a representative in Congress four terms, or till 1797. He had previously been elected by the State Legislature a member of the Continental Congress in 1779, and served in that capacity two terms. He had also been a delegate to the State Convention in 1787, called to ratify the Constitution of the United States, and was its President. In 1793 he was run by the Federal party for Governor of Pennsylvania against Thomas Mifflin, and again in 1796, but was beaten the first time by about eight thousand votes. In 1800 he was appointed Receiver-General of the Pennsylvania. Land Office, which he held at his death in 1802. He died at the age of 52.

REV. HENRY ERNST MUHLENBERG, son of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, was born at Trappe, Montgomery county, Nov. 17, 1753. With his two brothers he was sent to the University of Halle at nine years of age, and remaining nine years, returned in 1770, a young man of 18. In his twentieth year he was ordained, and acted as assistant pastor of the Lutheran Church, Philadelphia. He, like his brothers, had to leave his charge when the British entered that city. Being like his father, and an ardent patriot, the enemy tried to capture him, but without success. For a short time after leaving Philadelphia he devoted himself to the study of botany, mineralogy and kindred sciences, till 1780, when he was installed pastor of a Lutheran church at Lancaster, Pa., with which he remained thirty-five years, till his death in 1815, at the age of 62. He was distinguished for his talents, piety, usefulness and extensive literary and scientific acquirements. His works are Catalogus Plantarum, Gramina America Septentrionalis, and Flora Lancastriensis, all in Latin. There have been a number of distinguished men of the third generation of the Muhlenberg family, of which Henry A., of Reading, was Democratic candidate for Governor in 1835.

REV. GEORGE MICHAEL WEISS.

[Contributed by J. D.]

Lord, I have loved the habitation of Thy house, and the place where Thine honor dwelleth.-Psalm xxvii, 8.

Rev. George Michael Weiss was a native of the Palatinate on the Rhine. He came to America in company with about 400 emigrants (as they expressed it), " Natives and late Inhabitants of the Palatinate upon the Rhine and Places Adjacent into this Province of Pensilvania in hopes and expectation of finding a Retreat and peaceable Settlement therein." His name with the affix "V. D. M." appears at the head of a list of fifty heads of families, who, on the 21st of September, 1727, subscribed the obligations of allegiance to the King of Great Britain.

Mr. Weiss was sent to this country by the upper consistory or classis of the Palatinate. He came, as it seems, with a number of people, migrating thence at that time as their pas tor. Four years after Mr. Weiss's arrival, we learn, from a report made to the Synod of Holland, that there were about 15,000 Reformed members holding to the old Reformed Confession in America.

When Mr. Weiss arrived in this country he settled in Schippach, (Skippack), then in Philadelphia, now Montgomery county, about twenty-four miles from Philadelphia. Here they built a wooden church, and Dominie Weiss was chosen their minister. This was among the first regular organized German congregations in Pennsylvania. There were some congregations formed in the Province, but none previous with a regularly ordained preacher of that denomination. The old church stood until about the year 1760, when it was torn down and never rebuilt, the congregation having removed their place of worship to what is now called Wentz's, Worcester township. The church officers at the old wooden church. were Jacob Deimer, Michael Hillegas, Peter Hillegas, Joost Schmidt, Heinrich Weller, Jacob Siegel and William Rohrich. In this neighborhood the German Palatinates are more thickly settled than in other parts.

In the year 1729, in company with an elder, he went to