History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . REV. J. VV. SHANNON, ).,Mt. Union, REV. C. R. ALLENBACH,Bedford, Pa. 251 TRINITY, BEDFORD This is decidedly the oldest document which gives any positiveinformation of the existence of a Lutheran congregation on theterritory of the Alleghany Synod. The next oldest document isthe old union Lutheran and German Reformed church hook ofthe Berlin congregation in Somerset County, Pa., also in thehands of the German Ref
History of the Alleghany Evangelical Lutheran synod of Pennsylvania, together with a topical handbook of the Evangelical Lutheran church, its ancestry, origin and development . REV. J. VV. SHANNON, ).,Mt. Union, REV. C. R. ALLENBACH,Bedford, Pa. 251 TRINITY, BEDFORD This is decidedly the oldest document which gives any positiveinformation of the existence of a Lutheran congregation on theterritory of the Alleghany Synod. The next oldest document isthe old union Lutheran and German Reformed church hook ofthe Berlin congregation in Somerset County, Pa., also in thehands of the German Reformed, which begins in 1777. The thirdoldest document is that of the Samuels congregation in Somer-set Countw Pa. Some pages, however, of it are lost. What re-mains of it begins with [783. It is in my possession and will hesent to our I fistorical Society at ( iettysburg. The fourth oldest doc-ument is the union church hook, Lutheran and German Reformed,of the Salisbury Lutheran congregation, which begins in [788,also in the hands of the German Reformed. All these documents give evidence that these places had heenvisited prior to the dates they hear, by the Lutheran ministers,or ministerial tramps calling themse
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