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<placename>Bethlehem</placename> at the end of <date>June 1741</date>.
He engrossed the document placed in the corner-
stone of the <placename>Gemeinhaus</placename>, and was the first
school-master of <placename>Bethlehem</placename>, when the school was
opened in <date>May, 1742</date>, - as he was also the
first diarist and the postmaster, who had
charge of the mail sent to and received from
the Brother who rendered a like service in
<placename>Philadelphia</placename>.        In <date>1745, Feb. 14</date>, he married
<persname>Catherine <unclear>Theobola</unclear> Medler</persname>.
             Ordained a deacon in <placename>Bethlehem</placename> by
<persname>John on Walleville</persname>, <persname>Spangenberg</persname> and
<unclear>Gammerhof</unclear> in <date>Oct. 27, 1748</date>, he served in
the pastorale of various Congregations, last of
all in <placename>Philadelphia</placename>, where he died on
<date>Nov. 1, 1784</date>. He was buried in the <unclear>[?]</unclear>
cemetery, <placename>Franklin & Vine Sts</placename>. When the
(church and) cemetery was sold in the Fall
of <date>1886</date>, and the remains <unclear><add>[?]</add></unclear><add> in the graves</add> <unclear>reeintered</unclear> elsewhere,
those of <persname>George Neisser</persname> were brought to <placename>Bethlehem</placename>
and reinterred in <date>October</date> in the Old Graveyard
in <placename>Bethlehem</placename> - grave no. 18, row 3.