RELIGION

John Michael's church records appear in the Journal of the Reverend Casper Stoever, for the Warwick Church /Muddy Creek churches.  (The actual baptism of his oldest child, John Michael Kitch, was actually done by the Rev. John Christian Schultze on December 3, 1732; it appears in the Muddy Creek Church records properly, and in Stoever's records as if he had done all of the the baptisms.)  A number of his early entries were just recapitulations of what had gone on prior to his arrival.  An interesting point found in the microfilms of the Journal, is scribbling at the beginning of his baptismal entries.  Scribbled across the top, as if an  add-on thought or comment, was "Johannes Michael Kitch ist gestorben."  (John Michael Kitch is dead.)  Nowhere else is an add-on note like this found.  Could John Michael have been leading the church services?  Was he a church or community leader of some sort?   So far, nothing is known.

Also, the last two of Johan Michael Kitch's children do not appear in the records of Stoever.  Once while at the GSP in Philadelphia, I was looking at some microfilms, and came across the records of their births / baptisms.  The records had been lost for years, and were found in the walls of the Church in the 1950s.