Frederick Muhlenberg

Education and ministerial career

He attended the University of Halle, Germany, where he studied theology, and was ordained by the ministerium of Pennsylvania a minister of the Lutheran Church on October 25, 1770. He preached in Stouchsburg, Pennsylvania and Lebanon, Pennsylvania from 1770 - 1774, and in New York City from 1774 - 1776. When the British entered New York at the onset of the American Revolutionary War, he felt obliged to leave, and returned to Trappe. He moved to New Hanover Township, Pennsylvania and was pastor there and in Oley and New Goshenhoppen until August, 1779.

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University of Halle - Lutheran - October 25 - 1770 - Stouchsburg, Pennsylvania - Lebanon, Pennsylvania - 1774 - New York City - 1776 - American Revolutionary War - New Hanover Township, Pennsylvania - August - 1779

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