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About Pastor John Ludwig Voigt
~• Marriage: Nov. 16, 1779 per <journals>
Pastor of the Zion Church founded near Spring City Chester County, Province of Pennsylvania
Surname was origianally spelled Focht but was changed to Voigt in the Colonies.
see: https://books.google.com/books?id=jcYxAQAAMAAJ&pg=PA294&lpg=PA294&d... page 292 et seq. (History of Chester County)
~•"It was computed that there was not less than 3,000 people at his funeral" His name is inscribed in stone above the doorway to the church along with 7 others (1774)
~• appears quite regularly in vol. III of Mühlenberg's Journals...
~• Lutheran minister in Pikeland, Chester County
~• assisted Mühlenberg at Trappe, Montgomery (then Phila. County)
~• marriage of convenience w/ the widow Anna Maria Selner (aka Söllner)
see citation in https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Michael%27s_Evangelical_Lutheran_Church_(Mt._Airy)
see booklet: https://yellowsprings.pastperfectonline.com/byperson?keyword=Voigt%... which cites Mühlenberg in the Sep-Oct 1779 time frame when there was war-time hospital at Yellow Springs
https://www.yumpu.com/en/document/view/4604576/history-of-st-peters...
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Pastor John Ludwig Voigt's Timeline
| 1731 |
November 9, 1731
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Mansfield (sic), Germany
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| 1800 |
December 1800
Age 69
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Spring Ciuty, Chester County, Pennsylvania, United States
died age 69 yrs and 13 days; interred at Zion Lutheran Church
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Zion Lutheran Church, Spring City, Chester County, PA, United States
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