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There were enough Germans in 1808 to think themselves entitled to a church and pastor of their own nationality , for on 2 March of that year Christopher Briehill , John Kneringer , George Jacob , Martin Nieder , and Francis Werneken signed a petition which they sent to Bishop Carroll praying him " to send us a pastor who is capable of undertaking the spiritual Care of our Souls in the German Language , which is our Mother Tongue .