Rev Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg^[1]

1711 - 1787  (76 years)

• Name	Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg
  Title	Rev
  Nickname	Henry
  Birth	6 Sep 1711	Einbeck, Landkreis Northeim, Saxony, Germany
  Gender	Male
  Immigration	23 Sep 1742	Charleston, Charleston County, South Carolina, USA
  Death	7 Oct 1787	Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Burial	Augustus Lutheran Church Cemetery, Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA   [2]
  Person ID	I20380	Tulpehocken Genealogy
  Last Modified	17 Nov 2023

  
  

  Father	Nicolaus Melchior Muhlenberg
  Mother	Anna Maria Kleinschmid
  Family ID	F6879	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart

  
  

  Family	Anna Maria Weiser,   b. 24 Jun 1727, Schoharie, Schoharie County, New York, USA d. 23 Aug 1802, Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 75 years)
  Marriage	1745	Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA
  Children	+ 1. General John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg,   b. 1 Oct 1746, Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1 Oct 1807, Gray's Ferry, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 61 years) + 2. Eve Elisabeth Muhlenberg,   b. 10 Feb 1748, Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 1808, Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 59 years)   3. Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg,   b. 1 Jan 1750, Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 4 Jun 1801, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 51 years)   4. Margaretta Henrietta (Kunze) Muhlenberg,   b. 17 Sep 1751, Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 23 Oct 1831, New York, New York County (Manhattan), New York, USA (Age 80 years) + 5. Gotthilf Henry Ernest Muhlenberg,   b. 17 Nov 1753, Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 23 May 1815, Lancaster, Lancaster County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 61 years)   6. Mary Catherine Muhlenberg,   b. 5 Nov 1755, Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 13 Oct 1812, Norristown, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 56 years)   7. John Enoch Samuel Muhlenberg,   b. 21 Aug 1758   d. 16 Feb 1764, Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 5 years)   8. John Charles Muhlenberg,   b. 18 Nov 1760   d. 24 Nov 1760 (Age 0 years)   9. NN Muhlenberg,   b. c 1762, Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA   10. Catharine Salome Muhlenberg,   b. 18 Apr 1764, Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 20 Aug 1765, Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 1 year)   11. Maria Salome Muhlenberg,   b. 13 Jul 1766, Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 13 Mar 1827, Reading, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 60 years)   12. Emanuel Samuel Muhlenberg,   b. 11 Jul 1769, Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA d. 24 Dec 1769, Stouchsburg, Berks County, Pennsylvania, USA (Age 0 years)
  Family ID	F6878	Group Sheet  |  Family Chart
  Last Modified	7 Apr 2022

  
  

• Notes

  Religious Leader. He was the principal organizer of American Lutheranism. He was born in Einbeck, Germany, on September 6, 1711, and studied at Goettingen and at Halle. Lutherans in America in the mid-eighteenth century were found in scattered communities with no central organization and in danger of factionalism. Several congregations wrote to Halle University, asking for a pastor to take charge. Hermann Francke, a Lutheran leader of the Pietist movement at Halle, chose Muhlenberg and sent him to America. Henry arrived at Charleston on September 23, 1742. He was soon recognized by Lutheran churches as the senior Lutheran pastor in America. He set the tone for the Lutheran community in what became the United States; and almost all Lutheran Churches in America today use liturgies which were developed from the one that he proposed for American use. His plans for local church government, presented to congregations that had been accustomed to a great deal of government control, eased the transition to the "free church" model, and form the basis for plans of local church government in American Lutheran churches today. Henry M. Muhlenberg died on October 7, 1787. His epitaph (in Latin) reads: "Who and what he was, future ages will know without a stone." He was born in Einbeck, in the German state of Hanover. He was the son of Nicolaus Melchoir Muhlenberg and Anna Maria Kleinschmid. In 1745 he married Anna Maria Weiser, daughter of Conrad Weiser. They had 11 children. Bio by: Thomas Fisher

  
  

• Sources

  [S175] Website: Geni World Family Tree, (https://www.geni.com/family-tree/html/start), https://www.myheritage.com/research/record-40000-134685865/heinrich-henry-melchior-muhlenberg-in-geni-world-family-tree (Reliability: 4). Heinrich "Henry" Melchior Muhlenberg&lt;br&gt;Gender: Male&lt;br&gt;Birth: Sep 6 1711 - Einbeck, Northeim, Lower Saxony, Germany&lt;br&gt;Occupation: "Patriarch of American Lutheranism"&lt;br&gt;Marriage: Spouse: Anna Maria Muhlenberg (born Weiser) - 1745 - Stouchsburg, Berks, Pennsylvania, United States&lt;br&gt;Death: Oct 7 1787 - Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States&lt;br&gt;Burial: After Oct 7 1787 - Augustus Lutheran Church Cemetery, Trappe, Montgomery County, Pennsylvania, United States&lt;br&gt;Father: <a>Nicolaus Melchoir Muhlenberg</a>&lt;br&gt;Mother: <a>Anna Maria Muhlenberg (born Kleinschmid)</a>&lt;br&gt;Wife: <a>Anna Maria Muhlenberg (born Weiser)</a>&lt;br&gt;Children: <a>John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg</a>, <a>Eve Elisabeth Schultz (born Muhlenberg)</a>, <a>Frederick Augustus Conrad Muhlenberg</a>, <a>Margaretta Henrietta Kunze (born Muhlenberg)</a>, <a>Gotthilf Heinrich Ernst Muhlenberg, D.D.</a>, <a>Mary Catherine Muhlenberg</a>, <a>John Enoch Samuel Muhlenberg</a>, <a>John Charles Muhlenberg</a>, <a>Catharine Salome Muhlenberg</a>, <a>Maria Salome Richards (born Muhlenberg)</a>, <a>Emanuel Samuel Muhlenberg</a>, <a>N.N. Schultz (born Muhlenberg)</a> [S64] Website: Find a Grave [text], https://www.findagrave.com/memorial/10653159/henry-melchior-muhlenberg.