Hallesche Pastoren in Pennsylvania, 1743–1825

Hallesche Pastoren in Pennsylvania, 1743–1825. Eine kritische Quellenedition zu ihrer Amtstätigkeit in Nordamerika. Ed. by Mark Häberlein, Thomas Müller-Bahlke and Hermann Wellenreuther (†).
Part 6: Briefe und andere Amtsdokumente der Pastoren. Johann Helfrich Schaum (1721–1778), Johann Friedrich Schmidt (1746–1812), Friedrich Schultz (1726–1809?), Christoph Immanuel Schulze (1740–1809), Johann Ludwig Voigt (1731–1800) und Johann Friedrich Weinland (1744–1807). Ed. by Wolfgang Splitter, Markus Berger and Jan-Hendrik Evers in collaboration with Lara Grünberg, Nikolas K. Schröder and Alexander Pelz (Register)

The sixth volume presents a critical edition of 105 letters from six previously little-known Lutheran clergymen active in Pennsylvania in the 18th and early 19th centuries. Written between 1744 and 1807, these letters reflect numerous aspects of everyday church life—from pastors' travels and illnesses to conflicts within congregations and issues of education, as well as the financing of congregational work and the care of pastors' widows. More than half of the letters are by Johann Friedrich Schmidt, who worked in the largest Lutheran congregation in North America in Philadelphia from 1785 until his death in 1812. As an accomplished accountant, he was also the most important contact for the Glaucha Institutes in Halle regarding transatlantic financial transactions and asset transfers.