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Another interesting story about why some Germans living on the North Branch of the Raritan left NJ. According to James Faust in German Element vol. 1 p. 155 the Lutheran Churches put out a call for a pastor and Rev. Wolf came in 1731. What a dozy! Reads like a novel. The parishioners had to bring suit to get rid of him. The church report said, ""... Mr. Wolf swore before the autorities that he had performed his duties according to contract. the members were then served with writs of execution upon their property, and many of them were arrested upon the highway." ................ "Finally, the matter came before the supreme court and caused a heavy expense to the congregation. The lawyers found their advantage in it. Part of the members sold their property and moved away." It took many,, many years and 90 pounds to get rid of Rev Wolf.
We know that Hertzogs attended the First Reformed Church in Raritan. WAS IT EVER CALLED A UNION CHURCH????? The Reformed (Prostestant) Church followed the teachings of Rev. Zwingli and the parishioners of the Lutheran Church (Prostestant) followed the teaching of Martin Luther. The teachings are much the same and in the early settlement of NJ (which would be in the 30s) they combined their congregations and called the combined church, Union Church of so and so town. Whether or not the Hertzogs ever heard Rev. Wolf preach we don't know, but they surely would have known who he was.
If you want to check www.rci.rutgers.edu/~magarell/chimney_rock/about_cr.html there is a topography map of NJ that shows the terrain of where the Hertzogs lived in NJ. Right southwest of the Mountains.
I'm ready now to leave NJ and travel to Trenton and across the Delaware River to Philadelphia and join the stream of Germans on their way west. First to the upper Susquehanna River, and then through York, Cumberland and Adams counties, (Old National Road) going west. And then following the slope of the mountains south and settling on Monocacy Manor close to present day Libertytown, MD. Does anyone have anything in their family tree that would indicate this is the route the Hertzog's traveled????
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