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This information is being posted with the hope that others will apply it to what info they have and to share their conclusions about the Hertzog/Hartsock/Hartsook/Hartsough family with the rest of us. There probably is no more documentation to be found and we may be reduced to analyzing and saying “probably” or “most Likely” based on common sense.
One mystery is: “Who are the parents of the following young people?” Glade Reformed Church, Walkersville Baptisms. Western Md. Genealogy Magazine (July 1988) 4: 112. bp 27 May 1770, Engelbert Hertzog, age 20y 4 m, Johannes Hertzog, age 18y 2m, Wilhelm Hertzog, age 17y 1m, Sara Hertzog, age 16y, 9m.
What we know. The Hertzogs/Hartsocks were of the Dutch Reformed faith. That faith believes in infant baptism and have never believed in re-baptism. Empatically. We know it was the custom for ministers to write the baptisms on a piece of paper and then record in church records later. Maybe he wrote the wrong date for Sarah. We have another example where this was proved to have happened. These young people may have been siblings. We know that Emigrant Peter’s father was Englebert. We know there was a German practice of using the same name for 2 siblings if the older one died or stayed in the old country. We know that Emigrant Peter moved to Monocacy in present day Frederick County, Md between 1745-1750. He may have squatted somewhere else before he moved to Monocacy Manor by 1757.
Daniel s/o Peter s/o Emigrant Peter was a member of the Pipe Creek Brethern Church. Anglebert s/o Nicholas S/o emigrant Peter was a minister but I don’t know which church. The Dunkards/Brethern believe in adult baptism. Several male descendants of Emigrant Peter were Brethern ministers including John W. grandson of Johannes.
What churches were available to the Hertzogs 1750-1754 when these children were born? The Old Monocacy Church (congregation probably formed 1738) is the mother church of western Maryland. Daniel W. Nead author of “Pennsylvania German in the Settlement of Maryland” quoted Schultz as saying the church was located south of present day Creagerstown. Millard Rice, author of “New Facts and Old Families” argues that the church was located south of present day Thurmont. The first is over 5 miles from present day Walkersville and the later over 10 miles from Walkersville. Lot 65 of Monocacy Manor is less than 4 miles southeast of Creagerstown.
The old Monoccacy Church was a Union Church of Lutherans and Dutch (German) Reformed. When necessary they shared pastors and met on alternating Sundays. They had visiting pastors (Rev. Schlatter and Rev. Mhlenburg) before Rev. Candler. Nead says that after the death of the resident pastor Candler in 1744-45 the congregation appealed to the Moravian and associate church of Brethern in Graceham to find them a pastor. Johann Heinrich Herzer and then Morovian George Hinke served until Oct. of 1746. According to Nead, “The Moravian missionaries and others posing as Lutheran ministers tried to splt the congregation.” Rice's version is some alike and somewhat different, "After his (Candler)death a schism with many attendant hard feelings developed among the Monocacy Lutherans. Parishioners who attended Pastor Candler's funeral at Conewago (Hanover) sought the help of Laurentius Nyber, the Lutheran Pastor at Lancaster who obviously had Herrnhuter leanings. with the help of the Moravians in Bethlehem, he secured for the Monocacy Germans as schoolmaster and precentor one Johann Heinrich Herzer. The following year the Moravian Georg Ninke, an ordained minister, was sent o Monocacy, but the more orthodox Lutherans closed the church to him after only one service. This forced Ninke to meet at Jacob Weller's home for church and school, while the "true" Lutherans turned to Carl Rudolph, an itinerant interloper of questionable morals, who soon deserted them. footnote: In the following year (1747) Jacob Weller and Jacob Matthias sought the help ......... this marked the beginning of the Moravian congregation and community at Graceham.” Neither of these authors touch on what the Reform congregation thought of these Moravian ministers.
The Albaugh’s started a Brethern/Dunkard/German Baptist congregation in the late 1749. (Source was found at the FrederickHistorical Society. I didn't think it was important at the time and I was moving fast.) We know the Albaughs were from NJ and that the Hertzogs knew the Albaughs in Md. Do you believe that these teenagers baptized at Walkersville in 1770 were Brethern or Dunkards before they were baptized as adults??? Who were their parents???
Footnote:
Other congregations meeting before 1763 were (Source-Kanely):
St. Mary’s Church (Evan Ref and Luth)@ Silver Run 1759-1873;
Pipe creek ch. of Breth 1758;
Evan Luth Congregation, Middletown 1743-1887;
Frederick Evan Luth either 1737 or 1742;
Evan Luth Congregation, Frederick 1743-1811 (includes
Monocacy Ch);
Evan Ref Church, Frederick (c1753)-known as Ger Ref, Ref Presb,
and German Presb Church in 1746-1833;
First German Reform church, Frederick 1753-1897;
Glade Charge 1563-1865 (consists of 4 churches Glade, Bethel,
Utica and Woodsboro); (I don’t understand these dates.)
Monocacy Ref church 1742-1811 (inclues Moncocay church and
Evan Luther congregation, both in Frederick);
Ref Church, Frederick 1747-1758,
Ref Congregation, Frederick 1756-1834;
St. Benjamin’s (Kreider’s) (Evan Ref. and Luth) church, Pipe
Creek;
St. John Evan Luth church, Creagerstown 1733-1941;
Walkersville Glade charge 1763-1833.
Footnote:
Nead quoting Schultz says the village of Conococheague, near the Clearspring was the most westerly settlement in Maryland until after the French and Indian Wars. Wonder why he didn’t mention Frederick (1748) .Hagerstown was laid out in 1762. Rice tells us that the self-sufficient farmers did not form towns right away. He gives the following list of towns and when they were formed: 1762 Taneytown; 1764 Sharpsburg, 1767 Middletown, 1768 Funkstown (Jersualemtown), 1774 Jefferson (New town), 1779 Creagerstown, 1782 Libertytown, 1784 Point of rocks (Trammelstown), 1785 Emmitsburg, 1786 Woodsboro (Woodsberry town), 1787 Brunswick (Berlin), 1793 New Market, 1815 Lewistown.
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