. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. extend the benefit of his ministry tothe poor miners and iron-workers, he crossed into New Jersey,and was at the house of Maurice Lorentz in August, 1743, andin Oetol)er, at the Glass House near Salem. The next year Rupp, History of the Counties of Berks and Lebanon, Lancas-ter. 1844, p. 122. • Tradition recorded in a letter of Father Lekeu, Februarj 11, of Ulrirk lieidk-r to Francis Neale, 1747, for 122 acres ; Thomasand Ricl
. The Catholic church in colonial days : the thirteen colonies, the Ottawa and Illinois country, Louisiana, Florida, Texas, New Mexico and Arizona, 1521-1763. extend the benefit of his ministry tothe poor miners and iron-workers, he crossed into New Jersey,and was at the house of Maurice Lorentz in August, 1743, andin Oetol)er, at the Glass House near Salem. The next year Rupp, History of the Counties of Berks and Lebanon, Lancas-ter. 1844, p. 122. • Tradition recorded in a letter of Father Lekeu, Februarj 11, of Ulrirk lieidk-r to Francis Neale, 1747, for 122 acres ; Thomasand Ricliard Penn to .Joseph Grcaton, 1752, for 373 acres 100 perclies. ^ Carkesse to Hill, .July 31, 1740. New Jersey Archives, vi.,p. 98. Acton, A short History of the Glass Manufacture in Salem GEIGERS HOUSE, NEW JERSEY 395 he repeated his visits to that colony, was at Bransons IronWorks, at the Glass House, and in June records a baptismin the house of Matthew Geiger, which in his time and hisson Adams, was periodically visited by Father Schneider,and later by Father Farmer. Before the close of the sum-mer Father Schneider be:an a mission at Bound HOUSE OF MATTHEW AND ADAM GEIGER, SALEM CO., N. J., WHEREMASS WAS CELEBRATED FROM 1744. The Church was, however, under the ban in New Jersey,for in the Instructions to Lewis Morris, Governor of that Co., X. J. Penn. Mag. of Hist.,ix., p. 343. It was about a mile fromAlloway. Shourds, History of Fenwicks Colony, p. 360. This house, one of the earliest associated with Catholicity in NewJersey, is still standing, and I give an engraving from a photographmade for me. The old Registers of Father Schneider and Father Far-mer enabled me to determine its proximity to Salem and Wisters GlassHouse. Investigation led to the house itself, still known in the neigh-borhood as one where Catholics held service in the olden time. A Kijar, a descendant of the early Geigers, still resides in Farmers first visit to it noted in h
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