Notarized document detailing St. Matthew's Lutheran Church mortgage holder Thomas E. Miller's extension of the time and payment of a $15,000 bond by the church for ten years, reducing interest to 4.5% and setting a minimum payment against the principle at $3,000.
Letter to Carsten Wulbern, President of the German Evangelical Lutheran Church Property, from attorney John F. Ficken, which encloses a record that shows there are "no outstanding encumbrances of record affecting the Church property." The enclosed record is written by Charleston County Register of Mesne Conveyances, Charles Kerrison Jr., and references dates from 1852 to 1891.
Mortgage document which indicates St. Matthew's Lutheran Church- here under its original name, the German Evangelical Lutheran Church- is bound to Charleston's Court of Equity for the sum of $18,016, and mortgages their property as described in the document to Master in Equity James W. Gray as collateral.
Letter to the "gentlemen" of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church from Thomas E. Miller indicating a reduction in interest on mortgage payments to 5% for the span of a year, from January 12, 1934 to January 12, 1935.
Document detailing Thomas E. Miller's release of a lien on a portion of St. Matthew's Lutheran Church's property after their payment of $19,000, signed by the church's Chairman of the Vestry J. Henry Dreyer. The mortgage on the rest of the church is to remain in full effect.
Letter to J. Frederick Knobeloch from attorney J.D.E. Meyer, enclosing a letter from Thomas E. Miller which reduces the interest on St. Matthew's Lutheran Church's mortgage payments for the span of a year, from January 12, 1934 to January 12, 1935.
Letter to J. Frederick Knobeloch from attorney J.D.E. Meyer indicating that the document that releases St. Matthew's Lutheran Church from mortgage by Thomas E. Miller is enclosed. The attorney indicates that Knobeloch or his successors will have to execute the final agreement and that the document should be kept in the church treasurer's records.
