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From: "Karen Fitch" <>
Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Church location ?
Date: Sat, 23 Jun 2007 15:15:26 -0500
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Does anyone have any information on Manor Church? Some of my ancestors are buried there.
Karen Fitch
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From: Lauren Brantner<mailto:>
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Sent: Saturday, June 23, 2007 2:11 PM
Subject: Re: [MDWashin] Church location ?


JoAnne,
There is a St. Pauls Church, Antietam Parish Records from 1819? in MSA mf M 880 - reference to a microfilm in Maryland State Archives. This information is from Russell's Genealogical Research Guide for Washington County. Scharf in his History of Western Maryland says the earliest church in Sharpsburg is the Mount Calvary Evangelical Lutheran Church established soon after the settlement of Chapline and others. He quotes a land records from 1768 where Joseph Chapline gave ground for the building for this congregation. He says the earliest records of that church have been lost and that until 1831 preaching was done in German. He continues the church history saying all of the old records of the Reformed Church have been either lost or destroyed but that the oldest inhabitants of Sharpsburg believed that a small church existed there prior to 1775. It was then known as the "old Ironside" Presbyterian Church and was served by a Mr. Matthews, stationed at Shepherdstown, W.Va.
This church eventually "fell into the hands of the German Reformed" congregation, he knew not when. The Protestant Episcopal congregation which he said was known now as St. Paul's Church was organized in 1818. A Methodist congregation was organized in 1811. He also mentions a couple other churches including the "Tunker Church" that was in the Antietam battlefield - "The Tunkers have four churches within a scope of eight miles having a membership of three hundred." The Methodists used the old Reformed church for a time. and in 1818 purchased ground for a plain brick church. This building was pulled down in 1856 as unsafe. and a new church built in 1858. He mentions some of the folks buried in the graveyard attached to this church.

Edna Kanely's DIRECTORY OF MARYLAND CHURCH RECORDS has just been republished by Heritage books. I don't have a copy yet so I can't speak to what is in that. Maybe someone else who has a copy can give you whatever is in that volume.

Lauren Brantner

JoAnne Martin <<mailto:>> wrote: Hope someone can tell me a German Reformed or a Methodist Church that would be located in Lower Antietam Hundred
around 1800. Thanks to all who make this site so great.
Jo Anne


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