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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Boehler , Peter 1712 -1775 (search)
Boehler, Peter, 1712-1775
Clergyman: born in Frankfort, Germany, Dec. 31, 1712: was graduated at Jena in 1736; ordained a Moravian minister in 1737; and was sent as an evangelist to Carolina and Georgia in 1738.
On his way he became acquainted with John and Charles Wesley, upon whom he exercised great influence.
Indeed. John Wesley records in his diary that Boehler was the person through whom he was brought to believe in Christ.
The Moravian colony in Georgia was broken up and removed to Pennsylvania in 1740.
He was consecrated bishop in 1748 and superintended the Moravian churches in America in 1 753-64, when he was recalled to Germany.
He died in London, England, April 27, 1775.
Leisler, Jacob 1660-
Military officer; born in Frankfort, Germany; was of Huguenot descent, and came to America in 1660.
Settling first in Albany, he soon became a trader in New York City.
While on a voyage to Europe in 1678, he, with seven others, was captured by Turkish corsairs, and they were ransomed at a high price.
In 1683 he was appointed a commissioner of the court of admiralty in New York City.
Democracy had then taken firm root among the people in New York, and when news of the accession of William and Mary reached the city the people were much excited by it. The military force of the city consisted of five military companies, of which Nicholas Bayard, a member of the governor's council, was colonel, and Leisler was senior captain.
The people were zealous Protestants.
A Roman Catholic collector appointed by King James had been retained in place, and a rumor spread of a horrible plot and intended massacre by the opponents of the deposed monarch.
A crowd of citizens
The Daily Dispatch: November 20, 1860., [Electronic resource], Notice to German Correspondents. (search)
Notice to German Correspondents.
--The United States Consul at Frankfort, Germany, having transmitted to the Postmaster General of the United States the following advertisement of the Criminal Court of that city relative to the recent embezzlement by an officer of the Turn and Taxis post-office, of a large number of letters from the United States, containing money, addressed partly to Frankfort and its immediate vicinity, and partly to Bavaria, Wurtemburg, Baden, Switzerland, &c., we publish the same for the information of interested parties in the United States:
"During the last nine or twelve months, John David Schmidt, letter packer, in the employ of Turn and Taxis, has, according to his own confession, stolen letters containing gold.
Said letters were intended partly for the postal jurisdiction of Frankfort and partly for Bavaria, Wurtemberg, Baden, and Switzerland.
It is important to ascertain the number and the contents of said letters, the names of the addressed an