Martin Brechall
Martin Brechall (c. 1757–1831) was an American fraktur (folk art), fraktur artist. European in origin, Brechall came to the Thirteen Colonies sometime before the American Revolution, in which he fought; an 1818 pension application states that he enlisted in April 1777 and reenlisted until 1783. During the war he saw action at the battles of Battle of Short Hills, Short Hills, Battle of Brandywine, Brandywine, and Battle of Monmouth, Monmouth, among others, and was also present at the surrender of Charles Cornwallis. Later in life, Brechall became a schoolmaster in Weisenberg Township, Pennsylvania, Weisenberg Township, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania, Lehigh County, Pennsylvania. He produced baptismal certificates for children in the neighborhood, residents of about a dozen towns in Lehigh and Berks County, Pennsylvania, Berks Counties. A handful of pieces from Penn Township, Centre County, Pennsylvania, Penn Township, at the time in Northumberland County, Pennsylvania, Northumber ...
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Birth And Baptismal Certificate 1792
Birth is the act or process of bearing or bringing forth offspring, also referred to in technical contexts as parturition. In mammals, the process is initiated by hormones which cause the muscular walls of the uterus to contract, expelling the fetus at a developmental stage when it is ready to feed and breathe. In some species the offspring is precocial and can move around almost immediately after birth but in others it is altricial and completely dependent on parenting. In marsupials, the fetus is born at a very immature stage after a short gestation and develops further in its mother's womb Pouch (marsupial), pouch. It is not only mammals that give birth. Some reptiles, amphibians, fish and invertebrates carry their developing young inside them. Some of these are Ovoviviparity, ovoviviparous, with the eggs being hatched inside the mother's body, and others are Viviparity, viviparous, with the embryo developing inside her body, as in the case of mammals. Mammals Large mammal ...
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