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336 AMERICAN CATHOLIC HISTORICAL SOCIETY.
of the following November, signed his name variously as
“ N. Delvaux ]l!z'ssz'rz'o”-the latter word an abbreviation
for missionary; “ R. D. Delzzaux”--“ Delvaux Paroclms” ,
“ Parous ”-parish-priest, or simply as “ Delvaux.”
His last entries are a baptism of a child born on March
16, 1793, (-he has not put the date of the baptism,) and a
marriage on April 18th, in the same year.”‘
Three days after Fr. Delvaux’s last registration at Gos-
henhoppen first appears Fr. Erntzen’s,-a baptism on
April 21, 1793, signed “ cl R. D. Paulo Eriztzeiz successore
R. DI’iz'DeZz1au:c ”; his first marriage being witnessed two
days subsequently ; while his last baptism (in this volume)
is dated March 29, I807 ; and his last marriage April 12,
18 r8.T
Besides the names of these three clergymen-Helbron,
Delvaux and Erntzen, who all were in residence at Gos-
henhoppen, with care of the out-lying missions dependent
on it, for thirty-one years, we here and there in the regis-
ters encounter other missionaries-visitors, who occasion-
ally were called upon to perform the rites of the Church.
Thus on November 2, 1818, a marriage was witnessed
(see p. 117) by the congregation and Rev. Maximilian
Rantzau, who assists at a like ceremony on the 12th of the
same month.
On February 7, I8I9, Rev. Louis de Barth, a priest of
noble birth, who however, (through humility, it is said,)
wrote his name (as was his fashion) simply as “ L. Barth”,
records the marriage by him of two parties in Philadelphia,
which was witnessed among others by a clergyman, whose
name is given as “ Rev. John Roselly ”. (See p. I17.)
Why this Philadelphia marriage-a public ceremony-
‘F The name of Rev. N. Delvaux is not in the Indexes to Dr. Shea's History; nor so
far as the writer is aware does it appear elsewhere than in Goshenhoppen Registers.
Nothing more absolutely 15 known of this missionary.
T 133’ Some writers Fr. Erntzen has been given a middle name-“ Domz‘m‘c". In H16
present registers he never signed but“ R,” or “ Paul“, Emgzmp
Mr. Benet. (in his Letter quoted ahead,) states that Fr. Erntzen's name appears at
times m 5h Ma1'Y'S registers at Lancaster from 1789 to 1795.