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.
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…
An act passed in 1725 which encouraged slave owner to make any capital felonies commited by their slaves known to the province in exchange for recompense.