Ohio History Journal

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REV

REV. PAUL HENKEL'S JOURNAL.1

 

 

HIS MISSIONARY JOURNEY TO THE STATE OF OHIO IN 1806.

Translated from the German by Rev. F. E. Cooper, of Milwaukee, Wis., and

edited by Clement L. Martzolff, Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

 

 

NEW MARKET,

SHENANDOAH        COUNTY, VIRGINIA.2

Monday, July 7th.

To-day, at 4 o'clock in the afternoon, I started on my first

journey as travelling preacher. As the affairs of my household

were in such shape that my wife could leave home for a time,

and as we had some reason to believe that her bodily health

1 Paul Henkel was commissioned to undertake this missionary journey by the

Lutheran Ministerium  of Pennsylvania, which had examined, licensed and finally

ordained him in 1792. At this time (1806) he was located at New Market, Va., and

undertook this missionary journey from that point. The Ministerium of Pennsyl-

vania paid him $40.00 a month for the actual time that he was engaged on this

journey and on the similar journey which he made to North Carolina three weeks

after his return to New Market, from the journey to Ohio.

Mention might be made of the fact that General Peter Muhlenberg, according

to a tradition in the Henkel family, personally presented to Paul Henkel the clerical

gown which Muhlenberg had worn in the pulpit at Woodstock in 1775, when after

preaching his sermon, he threw off his gown and revealed his colonel's uniform.

This gown is now preserved in the Krauth Memorial Library of the Lutheran Theo-

logical Seminary, at Mt. Airy, Philadelphia.

The Journal was sent in by Henkel to the Ministerium of Pennsylvania as a

part of his official report and has remained in the custody of the Ministerium ever

since, together with a great deal of similar material. It is now in the care of Dr.

Luther F. Reed, Archivarius of the Ministerium, the Archives also being kept in the

Library of the Seminary.

The English translation of the Journal is the work of the Rev. F. E. Cooper,

formerly of Lima, Ohio, and now of Milwaukee, Wisconsin. It is through the

courtesy of Dr. Reed that I am permitted to present this substantial contribution to

the early religious history of Ohio.

My personal thanks are due Prof. B. F. Prince, Springfield. Ohio; Geo. F.

Bareis, Canal Winchester, Ohio; Rev. A. Beck, Thornville, Ohio; Rev. J. H. Schnei-

der, Columbus, Ohio; Theo. D. Jervey, Charleston, S. C.; Hon. D. W. Williams,

Jackson, Ohio, and Mrs. Lydia S. Poffenberger, Point Pleasant, W. Va., for valuable

assistance in furnishing me with important data.

CLEMENT L. MARTZOLFF,

Ohio University, Athens, Ohio.

March 4, 1914.

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