Interesting. I had never heard of him.
From: [email protected] <[email protected]> On Behalf Of Billy Rojas Sent: Tuesday, December 25, 2018 1:02 PM To: Centroids Discussions <[email protected]> Cc: Billy Rojas <[email protected]> Subject: [RC] Peter Muhlenberg Peter Muhlenberg ...in 1767, where he was given a classical education from the Academy of Philadelphia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Academy_of_Philadelphia> (the modern University of Pennsylvania <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Pennsylvania> ). He was ordained in 1768 and headed a Lutheran congregation in Bedminster, New Jersey <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bedminster,_New_Jersey> , before moving to Woodstock, Virginia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock,_Virginia> . In 1770 he married Anna Barbara "Hannah" Meyer, the daughter of a successful potter. Together they had six children. Muhlenberg visited England in 1772 and was ordained into the priesthood of the Anglican Church <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anglican_Church> , although he served a Lutheran congregation. Since the Anglican Church was the state church of Virginia, he was required to be ordained in an Anglican church in order to serve a congregation in Virginia. Besides his new congregation, he led the Committee of Safety <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_Safety_(American_Revolution)> and Correspondence <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_of_correspondence> for Dunmore County, Virginia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dunmore_County,_Virginia> . He was elected to the House of Burgesses <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/House_of_Burgesses> in 1774, and was a delegate to the First Virginia Convention <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Virginia_Convention> .[later he served in the US Congress] Military career Toward the end of 1775, Muhlenberg was authorized to raise and command as its colonel <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonel_(United_States)> the 8th Virginia Regiment <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_Virginia_Regiment> of the Continental Army <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Continental_Army> . After George Washington <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Washington> personally asked him to accept this task, he agreed. However, his brother Fredrick Augustus Muhlenberg, who was also a minister, did not approve of him going into the army until the British burned down his own church in front of him. Then he joined the military himself. According to a biography written by his great nephew in the mid-19th century, on January 21, 1776 in the Lutheran church in Woodstock, Virginia <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Woodstock,_Virginia> , Reverend Muhlenberg took his sermon text from the third chapter Ecclesiastes <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecclesiastes> , which starts with "To every thing there is a season..."; after reading the eighth verse, "a time of war, and a time of peace," he declared, "And this is the time of war," removing his clerical robe to reveal his Colonel's uniform. Outside the church door the drums began to roll as men turned to kiss their wives and then walked down the aisle to enlist, and within half an hour, 162 men were enrolled. The next day he led out 300 men from the county to form the nucleus of the 8th Virginia Regiment <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8th_Virginia_Regiment> .... -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> > Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected] <mailto:[email protected]> . For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- -- Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community <[email protected]> Google Group: http://groups.google.com/group/RadicalCentrism Radical Centrism website and blog: http://RadicalCentrism.org --- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Centroids: The Center of the Radical Centrist Community" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
