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Bethel College Mennonite Library and Archives Collection
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Graudenz, West Prussia, Records

  • US BCMLA 06/MF.MSS.236
  • Collection
  • 1803-1806

digitized from microfilm MF MSS 236 http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/mf_mss_236/acc230/ which apparently is the same as LDS microfilm 1344434
also in elecrec/acc230

I. Hauptabteilung: Gen. Directorium (General-Ober-Finanz-Krieges- und Domänendirektorium) Abt. 9. Westpreussen und Netzedistrikt c. Ämtersachen und Ämterverpachtungssachen, 1722-1816 Nr.77 Graudenz vol. 1: Acta betrefs die Veranschlagung und anderweite Austhuung der Grundstücke in Kommerau, Amt Graudenz 1806, 5 pages vol. 2: Einrichtungsakten Amt Graudenz, Mühlenconsignation 1803/04. These were apparently at Merseburg when they were filmed. Presumably they are now in the Geheime Staatsarchiv in Berlin.

Prussia (Kingdom). Generaldirektorium

Wilhelm Lange Correspondence

  • US BCMLA 00/MF.MSS.139
  • Collection
  • 1815-1820

Microfilmed letters from Lange to Peter Wedel. Location of some originals unknown.

Digitized at http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/mf_mss_139/lange/

Dates of letters:

12 April 1815

5 June 1815

1 September 1816

11 March 1818

25 February 1819

one undated

30 July 1819

6 February 1820

Lange, Wilhelm, 1765-1841

Schwetz, West Prussia, Records

  • US BCMLA 1271
  • Collection
  • 1788-1827

"Die wegen Mennonisten-Wesens verlangte Nachrichten, 1788-1827"
digitized from microfilm MF MSS 236: http://mla.bethelks.edu/archives/mf_mss_236/acc232/
originally were in Staatsarchiv Danzig, Abteilung 145: Domänenämter und Intendaturen, später Domänenrentämter, 1773-1872
at time of microfilming in 1984 they were in the Bydgoszcz archives, sygn. 487, Nr. D-12256

Prussia (Kingdom). Generaldirektorium

F. C. Fleischer Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.198
  • Collection
  • 1820-1846

Eleven handwritten booklets in Dutch, dated 1820-1846, some undated. Possibly sermons. Some on the topic of baptism. One booklet dated 17 April 1836 belonged to Jan Dirkmaat who was baptized on that date at Broek op Langendijk (where Fleischer was later pastor) by J. Eenigenburg.

Fleischer, F. C., 1863-1929

Cornelius Voth Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.349
  • Collection
  • 1800-1850

Consists of Cornelius Voth's "Ein Schreibe Buch" which was continued by his son-in-law Peter Balzer.

The first two pages have recipes for remedies for stomach ache, the plague, etc. written by Peter Balzer.

Next is a 17 page family history section.

Pages 1, 2, and 3 are more remedies for illneses.

Up to p. 203 is miscellaneous poems, songs, speeches, sermons, etc.

Then several blank pages.

Page 233 starts a diary followed by accounts of what he borrowed from various people.

238-242: weather chart

258-266: remedies for horse diseases

272: recipes for gilding glass and leather

283: diary notes

288-291: remedies for human and animal illnesses

292 to end: financial notes, blacksmithing work, etc.

Voth, Cornelius, 1762-1836

Jacob Wall Diary

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.443
  • Collection
  • 1824-1860

Wall's diary 1824-1860 of events in his region. Also a listing of births, deaths, etc. mentioned in the diary, compiled by Glenn Penner. The title "Record Book of the Chortitza Mennonite Settlement 1824-1860" also seems to have been used for this document, although it isn't really an accurate description.

Wall, Jacob, 1807-1860

Johann Andreas Papers

  • US BCMLA 00/MS.191
  • Collection
  • 1835-1876

The collection includes Elbing-Ellerwald church record books kept by Andreas as elder, and a large collection of sermons. The authorship of most of the sermons is not indicated, but it seems likely that most of them were written by Andreas except where otherwise indicated.

Andreas, Johann, 1802-1877

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