Kavel 1079
1079
SCHLATTER, M. Getrouw Verhaal van den Waren Toestant der meest Herderloze Gemeentens in Pensylvanien en aangrensende Provintien, Voorgestelt en Opgedragen, (…) aan De H. Eerw. Christelyke Synodens van Nederland (…). Met (…) voorrede v.d. gecommitteerde des Classis v. Amsteldam. Amst., J. Loveringh, 1751. xxii, 56 pp. 4°. Bound in a very fine early 20th c. light brown mor. bind. w. a gilt-lettered spine of green mor., sides exuberantly gilt along borders, turn-ins dec. w. gilt lace work, old limp marbled wrps. bound up., uncut.
"The author of this "account of the true situation of the most sheperdless congregations in Pennsylvania and adjacent provinces", was sent by the Synod of Holland to Pennsylvania, in order to visit the different congregations throughout the Land. The volume contains extracts from the journal of his travels in New England, New Netherland, New Jersey, Pennsylvania, Maryland and Virginia, 1746-1751; and an account of the State of Pennsylvania and the numerous Reformed congregations there and in the adjacent provinces, which he found mostly without ministers." Sabin 77643. Michael Schlatter (1716-1790) was an American German Reformed clergyman. He taught for several years in Holland and then entered the German Reformed ministry. He went to Pennsylvania in 1746, arriving on 6 August. He served as pastor of the united churches of Germantown and Philadelphia in 1746-1751. He organized a synod which met in Philadelphia in 1747, and made extended missionary tours among the German Reformed settlers in Pennsylvania, Maryland, Virginia, New Jersey and New York State. In 1751, he returned to Europe to report on his work. In Amsterdam, he published (1751) a journal of his experiences and transactions in America, with an account of the Reformed congregations and their dearth of pastors. As a result of Schlatter's appeal, £20,000 was raised in England and Holland for the establishment of free schools among the Germans in America. - Warranted by the publisher with his signature. Excessively rare. - Meynen 1531; Muller 1211.€ 1500
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