Item Info

Scripts/Text: Fraktur; German script
Language: German
Weiser Number: 64
Physical Description: Leaf
Material: Laid paper; watercolor; ink
Transcription:

Geburts= und Tauf=Schein. \ Diesen beyden Ehegatten, als Georg Senssinger und seiner ehelichen \ Haus=Frau Catharina eine geborne Daniel Rebertin ist ein Sohn zur \ Welt gebohren, Namens Jonas Sensinger im Jahr unsers Herrn Jesu 1818: \ den 12ten Tag November um 5 Uhr Morgens. Im Zeichen de [blank] \ Dieser Jonas Sensinger ist gebohren und Getauft in America, im Staat Pennsylvanien, \ in Lecha County, in Heidelberg Townschip, \ Obgemelder Jonas Sensinger ist Getauft worden den 27sten Tag December 1818, von \ Herrn Wardmann Lutherischer Predi. Tauf=Zeugen waren Daniel Sensinger und Eva Krummin \ ledigen Standes damals.

Wann wir kaum gebohren werden, ist vom ersten Lebenstritt bis ins kühle Grab der Erden, Nur ein kurtz gemessener Schritt. \ Ach mit jedem Augenblick! Gehet unsre Kraft zurück. Und wir sind mit jedem Jahre, allzu reiff zur Todten= bahre. \ Und wer weiss in welcher Stunde, uns die letzte Stimme weckt: Dann Gott hat’s mit seinem Munde, \ Keinem Menschen noch entdeckt. Wer sein Haus nun wohl bestellt geht mit Freuden aus \ der Welt.
Da die Sicherheit hingegen; Ewig’s Sterben kan erregen. \ Gedruckt bey C. J. Hütter und Sohn, Easton.

[in script below central text]
Ich trat in Ehe \ Mit Leweina \ Handwerck \ den 24 Januar \ 1847.

[in heart on the left]
Ich bin getauft, ob ich gleich sterbe, \ Was schadet mir das kühle Grab? \ Ich weiß mein Vaterland und Erbe, \ das ich bey Gott im Himmel hab’, \ Nach meinem Tod, ist mir bereit \ Des Himmels Freud das Feyerkleid.

[in heart on the right]
Ich bin getauft, ich steh’ im Bunde, \ Durch meine Tauf, mit meinem Gott \ So sprech’ ich stets mit frohem Munde; \ In Creutz, in Trübsal, Angst und \ Noth, Ich bin getauft, deß \ freu’ ich mich, Die \ Freude bleibet \ ewiglich.

Translation:

To these two married people, namely Georg Senssinger and his lawful wife Catharina, a born Daniel Rebertin, a son was born into the world, named Jonas Sensinger in the year if our Lord Jesus 1818, the 12th day November at 5 o’clock in the morning. In the sign of the [blank] This Jonas Sensinger was born and baptized in America, in the state of Pennsylvania, in Lehigh County, in Heidelberg Township. Above mentioned Jonas Sensinger was baptized on the 27th day December 1818 from Mister Wardmann, Lutheran preacher. Sponsors were Daniel Sensinger and Eva Krummin, single back then.

Scarcely born into the world, it is only a short measured pace from the first step to the cool grave in the earth. O with every moment! Our strength diminishes, and with every year we grow more ripe for the bier. And who knows in what hour the final voice will awaken us, because God has not revealed this to anybody yet. Who tends to his house will depart from the world with joy. Because surety, in contrast, can provoke eternal death.

[in script below central text]
I entered into matrimony with Leweina Handwerck the 24 January 1847

[in heart on the left]
I am baptized, and when I die, how can the cool grave hurt me? I know my fatherland and legacy that I will have with God in Heaven. After death, Heaven’s garment of joy and celebration is prepared for me.

[in heart on right]
I am baptized, I stand united with my God through my baptism. I therefore always speak joyfully in hardship, sadness, fear and need. I am baptized, that’s a joy for me. The joy lasts eternally.

Category: Birth and Baptismal Certificate (Geburts und Taufschein)
Media Type: Letterpress Prints
Source: Rare Book Department
Notes:

Hand-drawn, hand-colored; hand-lettered; printed form. The central text in Fraktur is within a large heart in the center of the document. In the four corners are rosettes. Two verses are in small hearts below the central text frame. The large heart is surrounded by leafy stems of flowers, including tulips. A framed star is in the top center, and a framed tulip is in the bottom center.

Associated Names: Wardmann
Bibliography:

“Martin Brechall” in Russell D. and Corinne P. Earnest, Papers for Birth Dayes: Guide to the Fraktur Artists and Scriveners (East Berlin, Pa.: Russell D. Earnest Associates, 1997), 2nd ed., vol. 1, pp. 117-123.

Klaus Stopp, The Printed Birth and Baptismal Certificates of the German Americans (East Berlin, Pa.: Russell D. Earnest Associates, 1997) vol. 2, p. 82.

Secondary Place Town/Township: Geographic Coverage State/Province:Pennsylvania
Geographic Coverage City/Town/Township:Heidelberg Township
Geographic Coverage Note:Based on location of birth.
Geographic Coverage Region/County:Lehigh

Creation Place Town/Township: Creation Place Note:Based on location of printshop
Region/County:Northampton
City/Town/Township:Easton
State/Province:Pennsylvania

Creation Year (Single Year or Range Begin): 1820
Image Dimensions Width: 33.5 cm
ShelfMark: FLP 131
Creator Name: [Martin Brechall (c. 1757-1831)] - Decorator
[Martin Brechall (c. 1757-1831)] - Scrivener
Christian Jacob Hütter (1771-1849) - Printer/Publisher
Christian Georg Hütter (1793-1879) - Printer/Publisher