. Memoirs and reminiscences, together with sketches of the early history of Sussex county, New Jersey. ters those of sentiments more congenialto his own, which led him to fraternize more with them, ^ In The Wintermute Family History, by J. P. Wintermute, it isstated that John George Windemuth, who became the brother-in-law of Casper Schaeffer, through marriage with one of the daughtersof Johan Peter Bernhardt, built the old stone house at the foot ofthe lane running east from the main road, at a point a short distancesouth of the cemetery. On the southerly end of the house areinscribed in the
. Memoirs and reminiscences, together with sketches of the early history of Sussex county, New Jersey. ters those of sentiments more congenialto his own, which led him to fraternize more with them, ^ In The Wintermute Family History, by J. P. Wintermute, it isstated that John George Windemuth, who became the brother-in-law of Casper Schaeffer, through marriage with one of the daughtersof Johan Peter Bernhardt, built the old stone house at the foot ofthe lane running east from the main road, at a point a short distancesouth of the cemetery. On the southerly end of the house areinscribed in the wall his initials, J. G. W., 1755. This homesteadwas devised to his youngest son John. The large stone house on theroad near the Big Spring was erected by the Emigrators son Peter,the date of which is indicated by an inscription on the north gable,1791. This property was purchased by the late Martin R. Dennisof Newark, N. J., who named the place Bonnie Brook. It wasnear this point that the elder Windemuth built, in about the year1770, what is supposed to be the first fulling mill in Sussex Peter Windemuths House, erected 1791,noiv Bonnie Brook. MEMOIRS AND REMINISCENCES. 43 and a special intimacy grew up between him and the Condit, the pious and very able pastor of the Hard-wick church. These views and this course of the oldgentleman induced all his children to leave the Germanand unite with the English Presbyterian church, thoughhe himself, I believe, continued in connection with theGerman church to the close of his life. The descendants of the old gentleman have almost allcontinued in connection with the Presbyterian church tothe present day. The German Christians, though pos-sessed of many excellent traits of character, are yet,many of them, especially the foreign portion, too muchaddicted to formalism and superstition, in illustration ofw^hich I will just relate a circumstance that occurred inmy grandfathers case. He, toward the close of his life,becoming m
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