Heinrich Burchard Gabriel Wortmann

M, #15563
Pedigree
CAUTION* Heinrich Burchard Gabriel Wortmann has the following CAUTIONARY INFORMATION: This is not a relative. I'm including him in my database with all known facts, to try and find where he came from, in case that leads to where Frederick Reinhardt came from. Alhough typically, a minister on board usually brought his congegration, all indications are that he was a normal passenger, not the pastor of a bunch of the passengers. 
Researcher* An unknown place is researching the line of Heinrich Burchard Gabriel Wortmann: Other people looking for info on him:
Logan Jennings loganj@mchsi.com
George Ulch gulch@cfl.rr.com
Also: http://genforum.genealogy.com/philadelphia/messages/486.html
and http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/igm.cgi?op=GET&db=:2382381&id=I568611876. 
Background He has the following backgound information available A long time ago, I found something that talked about his background before immigration. I wasn't able to copy it at the time, and have forgotten the details. I saw it at the Immigrant Library in Burbank CA. I really do need to find the source again as it told where he got his schooling. It was a small booklet that had information on him and other ministers. It's driven me nuts for all these years because I lost the piece of paper I wrote on, and I can't remember what it was to try and duplicate the effort. I've asked again but they can't think of what it might have been. I remember that whatever the little fact was, it gave another location to look for information about him, but what it was, is probably lost forever. Like I said, it drives me nuts - was I dreaming? I have a distant "cousin" who works at the library and she looked up everything she could find on him, but didn't find that one little tidbit. Oh well! UPDATE July 2005 - HOORAY! I just received something from Logan Jennings that solves this particular mystery. I had only had volume 2 information from Pastors and People (see next entry), and he sent me the entry for pg 167 which has Wortmann's birth place and where he matriculated. This IS the information that I had seen all those years ago at the Immigrant Library. Thanks, Logan, for solving my mystery. Now let's hope this eventually leads to more information regarding his fellow passengers.1 
Birth* He was born at Mittelnkirchen bei Stade, Hannover, Germany, Palatines to America said: "Stade is a city (and a District) northwest of Hamburgh on the Elbe River that leads to the North Sea. This area was part of Hannover throught most of its history until 1949 when it became part of the new German state of Niedersachsen/Lower Saxony. 
Education*21 April 1738 He was educated on 21 April 1738 at Goettingen University, Hannover, Germany; matriculated. 
(Witness) QueenDenmark3 November 1752 He was a passenger on The Queen of Denmarkr, which sailed from Hamburg last from Cowes, arriving in Philadelphia 3 November 1752. Capt. George Parish, had 41 convicts from the Hamburg workhouse and jails aboard who were shipped out by order of the Hamburg Senate (city government) but it's unlikely "our" passengers were among the convincts. 
Background*4 June 1753 He has the following backgound information available volume I Pastors and Congregations
pg 167 "Henry Burchard Gabriel Wortmann, Lutheran, Born at (2162) Mittelnkirchen bei Stade, Matriculated at Goettingen University April 21, 1738. Served a parish near Hamburg. Arrived in Philadelphia November 3, 1752." Several paragraphs about his activities in America, but I'm not typing that in at this time.
volume II The History
pg 194 list of ordained pastors who came without a regular call, to 1776, includes: Lutheran 1752 Henry Burchard Gabriel Wortmann.
pg 194 "Those pastors who had been sent to Pennsylvania shared with William Christopher Berkenmeyer the strong suspicion of men who had 'wandered' into the field without a regular call from a specific parish." [continues to talk about several]
pg 195 "Several others, including Henry Wortmann and William Pythan, left the Pennsylvania field for service elsewhere in America..."
pg 242" A Pastoral Call, 1753 - As the Evangelical Lutheran Church of the town of Reading and the adjacent townships of Alsace and Schwartwald have united in electing as their regular pastor and preacher the Very Reverend Master Henry Borchard Gabriel Wordman, and the same person has accepted the call thus given him, and it it now the duty of the scribers.... we commission, therefore, in the name of the intire congregation, the above named Henry Borchard Gabriel Wordman to be our regular teacher and pastor..." signed at Reading 4 Jun 1753. "The Lutheran congregation in the new town of Reading called Henry Borchard Gabriel Wortmann as its pastor in June 1753. The elders and deacons reserved the right to terminate the pastor-people relationship upon giving three months' notice. In July they exercised this right, referring to the 'miserable circumstances which have taken place' and deciding 'from kindly considerations to pass over in silence the reasons for this course.' In December 1753 Wortmann formally acknowledged that the congregation had no remaining obligation to him. Source: Jacob Fry, The History of Trinity Church, reading, PA, 1751-1894 (Reading, 1894), pp. 25-8." on 4 June 1753.1 
Negative*  Of note, several things led me to check out Starkenburg in Hessen and the Register of clergy & schoolteachers in Starkenberg 1521-1923 film 415526 #2 doesn't show Hinrich Burchard Gabriel Wormann, the Lutheran minister on the ship w/Johann Georg Reinhardt. 
Last Edited2 Feb 2017

Citations

  1. [S1974] Pastors and people; German Lutheran and Reformed churches in the Pennsylvania field, 1717-1793, Charles H. Glatfelter.