Rev. Philip Henry Rapp

~• the following from: https://www.mcall.com/news/mc-xpm-1988-04-07-2637433-story.html = The Morning Call newspaper service By DAN FRICKER and The Morning Call
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Apr 07, 1988 at 12:00 am

"Some say the Nockamixon Church, as it was first known, got its start in the 1750s. But Moyer says he believes that the Rev. Henry Rapp, who arrived in Nockamixon in 1762, played a part in founding the church or its organization.

Rapp was a controversial minister, always at odds with Henry Muhlenberg, the patriarch of Lutheranism in America. In his three-volume diary, Muhlenberg mentions Rapp moving from his post as pastor of the Germantown Lutheran Church to "the wilds of Bucks County." The Nockamixon Church was incorporated in 1763, but by June 1764 a dispute, most likely about Rapp, already had arisen.

Moyer says its appears the small congregation had split into two factions, with one wanting Rapp as its leader, while the second preferred one of the circuit preachers who made the rounds of rural churches. The dispute was resolved when Bucks County court, in a Solomon-like decision, set alternate Sundays for Rapp and the unknown circuit preacher to lead services in the log cabin."

Rapp committed suicide in Nov 1779 per <journals>