Rev. Michael Schlatter

2013.5.4.76b-d

2013.5.4.76b-d

Name/Title

Rev. Michael Schlatter

Entry/Object ID

2013.5.4.76b-d

Description

Three images found on page 76 of scrapbook 2, "Pictorial Germantown Road and the Vicinity & Some of its Inhabitants. Compiled by George Clarence Johnson. Volume I. East Side." Image b, top left, is a portrait of Rev. Michael Schlatter, 1717-1790, with a caption indication that he was the first paid pastor of the Dutch Reformed Church in Germantown, serving from 1746-1749, and that he was buried in the German Reformed burial ground in what is now Franklin Square. Image c, upper right, is a photocopy of a document in Dutch that appears to be his official assignment to the Germantown Church. Image d, bottom, is a drawing of Sweetland, the home of Rev. Michael Schlatter, Germantown Avenue below Hillcrest in Chestnut Hill.

Collection

GHS Scrapbook Collection

Made/Created

Artist

Unknown

Notes

Author: Unknown