[Editor's Introduction: In November, 1982, on pages 194 � 198, the Journel published Ute-Ingrid Seidler's "A List of Children of Settlers of German Descent in Central North Carolina, 1775 � 1791".  Since that time additional pages of Pastor ARNDT's register have been located, and the names from them appear below.]

The Rev. Johann Gottfried ARENDS (John Godfrey ARNDT) was born on 11 December 1740 in Gottingen, Germany, and he was graduated from the Teachers Seminary in Hanover.  He came to America in 1772 and, finding a shortage of ministers, he was ordained at the Organ Lutheran Church in Rowan County, North Carolina, in 1774.  He served churches in the area now Cabarrus, Davidson, Guilford, Iredell, Lincoln, Rowan, and Stokes counties.

After his marriage to Hannah RUDISILL, ARENDS (ARNDT) moved his home from Rowan County to Lincoln County.  He established many Lutheran churches in western North Carolina and served as a minister until blindness handicapped his last years.  He died on 9 July 1807 and was buried in the Old White Church in Lincolnton, North Carolina.

This pioneer Lutheran minister's confirmation lists of teenaged children were kept in German in his Register, now preserved in the Archives of the North Carolina Synod of the Lutheran Church in America, Salisbury, North Carolina.

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Register of the Reverand John Godfrey ARNDT

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Table 1 November 1792 South fork [Old St. Paul's, Catawba County]
1. BOST	2. FOLBRECHT [FULBRIGHT]	3. ANTONEN
4. HAAS	5. HAFFNER	6. HAUSEN
7. WEISS	8. HAFFNER	9. BONEN
10. STEIN	11. LUTZ	12. Sara KILIANEN
13. STEIN	14. LUTZ	15. SOPHAFFERTEN
16. EISENHAUER	17. LUTZ	18. JUNTEN [YOUNT]
19. LUTZ	20. KLEINEN

Table 2 26 August 1792 Killian Settlement [Lincoln County]
1. LINK	2. DELLINGERN	3. KLONINGERN
4. CRAUSELL	5. RUDENSILL	6. HELLERMAN
7. RIELL	8. RUDENSILL	9. LEIKEN
10. SEITZ	11. SAILERN	12. BOHMEN
13. HELLERMAN	14. KIENERN	15. KIENERN
16. LEIK	17. CRAUSELL	18. DELLINGERN
19. SAILOR	20. KLONINGERN

Table 3 September 1793 at Linkhorn
1. BLACK	2. ADERHOLDT	3. HIGLMANN
4. KLEIN	5. HOFFNERN	6. ERNSTEN
7. ERNST	8. SIEGELL	9. GANTZLERN
10. HIGLMANN	11. HOEVERN	12. KRATZEN
13. GANTZLER	14. SIEGELL	15. KRATZEN