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Updated: May 2, 2025

Berkenmeyer's parish covered a large territory. In Schoharie he baptized the infant daughter of Conrad Weiser, who eighteen years later became the wife of Henry Melchior Muhlenberg. In the absence of churches, Berkenmeyer preached in private dwellings or, more frequently, in barns. At one of these services fourteen children were baptized in the "Lutheran barn" of Pieter Lassing.

F. (Friedrich) Bente - American Lutheranism: Volume 1: Early History of American Lutheranism and The Tennessee Synod