Earliest concentrated settlement of Germans in western Maryland (present Frederick County). Records of marriages and burials in the Monocacy Church of Frederick County, Maryland and in the Evangelical Lutheran Congregation in the city of Frederick, Maryland. Burial records often give birthplaces in Europe and birthdates of early settlers. W0038HB - $19.00

Monocacy began its Lutheran register in 1743; by 1748 the Evangelical congregation in Frederick had assumed keeping the churchbook. The Reformed congregation in Frederick did not begin a churchbook until about 1752. The Monocacy congregations ceased to function by the 1760s.