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Rev John Frederick Ernst

Birth
Germany
Death
1805 (aged 59–60)
Manheim, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA
Burial
Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA Add to Map
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"Rev. John Frederic Ernst, himself a noble specimen of a Lutheran preacher, ...came from Strasburg, Germany, to this country in his youth and for a time had charge of a church in Cooperstown, NY...."(exerpt from a letter written by his granddaughter, Emma Gale Buck Carver).

Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Book 17, p. 278: "John Frederick Ernst, (1748-1805), served as adjutant in Col. Henry Spycker's regiment, Berks County militia, 1777. He was in active service after the evacuation of Philadelphia by the British. He was born in Strasburg, Germany, and died in Manheim, Pa."

His wife Elizabeth was b. March 22, 1747, died Jan. 31, 1826 (Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley By Philip Columbus Croll, p. 270.)


Rev. John Frederick Ernst became the minister at Trinity Lutheran Church of Colebrook, at Manheim, in 1803, died in 1805, and is buried there at Manheim.
"Rev. John Frederic Ernst, himself a noble specimen of a Lutheran preacher, ...came from Strasburg, Germany, to this country in his youth and for a time had charge of a church in Cooperstown, NY...."(exerpt from a letter written by his granddaughter, Emma Gale Buck Carver).

Daughters of the American Revolution Lineage Book 17, p. 278: "John Frederick Ernst, (1748-1805), served as adjutant in Col. Henry Spycker's regiment, Berks County militia, 1777. He was in active service after the evacuation of Philadelphia by the British. He was born in Strasburg, Germany, and died in Manheim, Pa."

His wife Elizabeth was b. March 22, 1747, died Jan. 31, 1826 (Ancient and historic landmarks in the Lebanon Valley By Philip Columbus Croll, p. 270.)


Rev. John Frederick Ernst became the minister at Trinity Lutheran Church of Colebrook, at Manheim, in 1803, died in 1805, and is buried there at Manheim.


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