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 *ing a later development. The germ of this Lutheran parish was the minister, Joshua de Kockerthal, whose missionary labors on both sides of the river cannot be overestimated. After the minister came not the church nor the steeple, but the bell, a gift from no less a lady of quality than Queen Anne herself. It was highly prized by these Lutherans and loaned