Person:Peter Muhlenberg (1)
Gen. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg
b.1 Oct 1746 Trappe, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States
d.1 Oct 1807 Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States
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  1. Gen. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg1746 - 1807
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Name[1][2] Gen. John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg
Gender Male
Birth[1] 1 Oct 1746 Trappe, Montgomery, Pennsylvania, United States
Marriage to Anna Barbara Meyer
Occupation[1] From 1768 to 1776 Virginia, United StatesLutheran Minister
Military[1][2] From 1775 to 1783 Revolutionary War
Death[1] 1 Oct 1807 Schuylkill, Pennsylvania, United States
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9 October 1807 Lancaster Journal
Died on Thursday morning, the 1st of October. in the 62nd year of his age at his seat near the Schuylkill, General Peter Muhlenberg.
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  1. ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 1.4 Peter Muhlenberg, in Wikipedia: The Free Encyclopedia
    Retrieved 18 May 2016.

    A Lutheran minister, he served in the United States House of Representatives and United States Senate from Pennsylvania.

  2. ↑ 2.0 2.1 A Fighting Parson: John Peter Gabriel Muhlenberg, in Library of Congress: Religion and the Founding of the American Republic
    #89.

    Peter Muhlenberg (1746-1807) was the prime example of a "fighting parson" during the Revolutionary War. The eldest son of the Lutheran patriarch Henry Melchoir Muhlenberg, young Muhlenberg at the conclusion of a sermon in January 1776 to his congregation in Woodstock, Virginia, threw off his clerical robes to reveal the uniform of a Virginia militia officer. Having served with distinction throughout the war, Muhlenberg commanded a brigade that successfully stormed the British lines at Yorktown. He retired from the army in 1783 as a brevetted major general.

  3.   MATRICULATES. 1763. NON-GRADUATES., in University of Pennsylvania, Biographical Catalogue of the Matriculates of the College: Together with Lists of the Members of the College Faculty and the Trustees, Officers and Recipients of Honorary Degrees, 1749-1893. (Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, 1894)
    11.

    + JOHN PETER GABRIEL MUHLENBERG.
    b. New Providence (now Trappe), Montg. Co., Penna., Oct. 1, 1746; d. Phila., Oct. 1, 1807.
    s. Rev. Henry M. Muhlenberg and Anna Mary Weiser.
    Entered 1760.
    Studied at Univ. Halle.
    On his return to America in 1766, studied theology and began preaching to Lutheran congregations in the
    neighborhood of Phila.
    Became a clergyman Ch. of Eng. in order to take charge of a parish at Woodstock, Va., settled mostly by Penna. Lutherans, where he remained fr. 1772 until 1775.
    Col. Cont. Army, 1775-77, and Brig. Gen., 1777, and Maj. Gen., 1753.
    Chmn. Com. Safety, Va., and mem. House of Burgesses, Va., 1774.
    Mem. Prov. Conv. Va., 1776.
    Vice-Pres. Sup. Exec. Coun., Penna., 1785. M. C, 1759-95, 1799-1801.
    U. S. Senator, Penna., 1801, but resigned before taking his seat to accept the position of Supervisor of Revenue, Penna.
    Dist. Collector of Port, Phila., 1803.
    m. Anna Barbara Meyer, N. J.
    See Life by Henry A. Muhlenberg. Appleton.

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