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submitted by Jean Kashnicki
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organized 1774, Centerville
Northampton Co., Pa.
[Centreville Stone Church]
In 1794, the log church had become to small to hold the
growing population. Ground donated for the church, burial and
school purposes by Mr. Jacob Emerich was then used by both
congregations to build a stone church two miles north of the old
log church in Williamsburg, now known as Mt. Bethel. Among the
first settlers were Mr. John Beck[Peck] who settled about a mile
east of the village, Mr. John Weidman and Conrad Keyser.
The earliest tombstone in the old grave yard is dated 1750.
Other inscriptions are, -------- Beck, 1755 - 1824; John Jac.
Beck, 1736 - 1819; John George Beck - 1705 - 1775, aged 70 years.
The names of the first pastors are not known.
 | Rev. J. A. Frederici may have preached at Williamsburg
on his way to Smithville. |
| 1782 - 1788 - Rev. Carl Benjamin Dana |
| Apr. 12, 1789 - Oct. 27, 1792 - Rev. Frederick Niemeyer |
| 1792-1798 - Rev. Solomon Frederici |
| 1799 - 1801 - Rev. Henry Schmidt |
| 1801-1806 - Rev. Christian Frederick Endress |
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- The
History of the Allentown Conference of the Ministerium of
Pennsylvania"
by Preston A. Laury
published in 1926, Kutztown Publishing Company, Inc.,
Kutztown, Pa.
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