. History of Northampton County [Pennsylvania] and the grand valley of the Lehigh under supervision and revision of William J. Heller, assisted by an advisory board of Right Rev. Andrew Bemade, whoremained in office until 1849. The first administrator was the Rev. John Christian Alexander deSchweinitz. He was born on his fathers estate of Nieder Leuba in Saxony,came to Bethlehem in 1770, and for twenty-seven years exercised a quietbut marked influence in the church and the community, especially in thetime of the Revolution, when he advocated submission to the new order ofaffairs. At
. History of Northampton County [Pennsylvania] and the grand valley of the Lehigh under supervision and revision of William J. Heller, assisted by an advisory board of Right Rev. Andrew Bemade, whoremained in office until 1849. The first administrator was the Rev. John Christian Alexander deSchweinitz. He was born on his fathers estate of Nieder Leuba in Saxony,came to Bethlehem in 1770, and for twenty-seven years exercised a quietbut marked influence in the church and the community, especially in thetime of the Revolution, when he advocated submission to the new order ofaffairs. At the time of his arrival in America, a division of the ecclesiasticalestates was consummated—one part being given to the Moravian church inthis country, and the other being held by him for the Moravian church atlarge. He died at Herrnhut in 1802. He was followed as administrator in1798 by Rev. John C. Cunow, the latter in 1822, by a son of the flrst adminis-trator, Rev. Eewis D. de Schweinitz. The next to fill the office, in 1834, wasRev. Philip H. Goepp; during his incumbency the exclusive system wasgiven up, and the financial system wholly changed. The church at Beth-. ULIJ CllAlKL, DKTIILEHEMReceiving Vault
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