Lutheran Ordination Certificate [in German].

• imprint_number: 1806.049
• title: Im Namen Jesu! : Wir die Unterschriebene urkunden nnd [sic] bekennen hiermit, dass der Canditat Herr [blank] auf geziemendes Ansuchen seiner verschiedenen Gemeinen in [blank] von uns zu einem Evangelisch-Lutherischer Prediger, mit gewöhlichen Ceremonien vermittlest Auflegung der Hände ist gehörig ordinirt worden, in der [blank] Zu mehrerer Urkende desselben, haben wir Ihm dieses Zeigniss darüber mit unsres Namens Unterschrift un beygefügten Siegeln ertheilet.
• sequence_number: 49
• year: 1806
• place_issued: New Market
• issuing_press: Ambrose Henkel
• author: North Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Church.
• notes: Sheet printed with a 5 cm. border space on all four edges allowing for fraktur ornamentation.
  Sheet lacks colophon; the Henkel Press in New Market began printing in 1806; the only copy known, held by the Historical Society of Pennsylvania, carries a manuscript note on the verso reporting: "The licentiate blank was one of the first publications of Ambrose Henkel, New Market Va, 1806, for the use of the Southern or North Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Church. Stapleton." Date, place, and press supplied here from that notation.
  
  
• Related Bios:
  • Rev. Ambrosius Henkel

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