President Abraham Lincoln issued the Emancipation Proclamation on January 1, 1863, as the nation approached its third year of bloody civil war. The proclamation declared "that all persons held as slaves" within the rebellious states "are, and…
The owner of the Muhlenberg's house was Rev. Henry Melchior Muhlenberg, Patriarch of the Lutheran church in America. Later owned by his son, Peter Muhlenberg.