. The Pennsylvania-German in the settlement of Maryland . r high estate; but many of them were unprin-cipled adventurers who, in the dire needs of the differentcongregations, saw a means of securing a livelihood withthe least possible expenditure of energy. A great deal ofthe trouble which subsequently arose in the various congre-gations was caused by men of this sort. It was not onlyamong the German settlers that these pretended ministerswere to be found, sowing their seeds of discord; they wereequally common in the English settlements. In theabsence of regular ministers religious services we
. The Pennsylvania-German in the settlement of Maryland . r high estate; but many of them were unprin-cipled adventurers who, in the dire needs of the differentcongregations, saw a means of securing a livelihood withthe least possible expenditure of energy. A great deal ofthe trouble which subsequently arose in the various congre-gations was caused by men of this sort. It was not onlyamong the German settlers that these pretended ministerswere to be found, sowing their seeds of discord; they wereequally common in the English settlements. In theabsence of regular ministers religious services were usuallyconducted by the schoolmaster, who would read church buildings erected were for many years usedjointly by the Lutheran and German Reformed congre-gations, services usually being held by each congregationon alternate Sundays. Dr. Schmauk says^^ that the first Lutheran church in «3 A History of the Lutheran Church in Pennsylvania, in Proc. andAdd. of the Pennsylvania-German Society, Vol. XII., p. 381 THE PENNSYLVANIA-GERMAN SUBSCRIPTION LIST, MONOCACY LUTHERAN CHURCH. Pennsylvania-German in Settlement of Maryland. 93 Maryland was erected in what is now Cecil county bySwedes from the settlement on the Delaware in 1649, butwhat may unquestionably be regarded as the mother-church of the Lutheran denomination in Maryland wasthe little log church erected at the village of Monocacyabout 1730. It is unfortunate that nothing is now pre-served which shows anything about the organization ofthis congregation, and it is only in later years that we findanything authentic concerning it. From the records ofRev. John Caspar Stoever we get the names of a numberof the early members of the Monocacy congregation, ason his numerous visits to that section of the country hebaptized the children of those attached to the congrega-tion. Thus, in 1734, four children of John JacobMattheis were baptized. In 1735 we find the names ofHeinrich Sinn and Michael Reusner; in 1736,
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