| Name | George Henry JOST |
| Birth | 28 Mar 1773, Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, CANADA |
| Death | 1 Feb 1849, Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, CANADA Age: 75 |
| Burial | Little Dutch Church Cemetery, Halifax, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia, CANADA |
| Occupation | Carpenter |
| Father | Johann Georg JOST (1727-1775) |
| Mother | Susanna Catherine MORASCH (1735-1811) |
| 1 | Margery SMITH |
| Birth | 1777 |
| Death | 5 Dec 1851, Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, CANADA Age: 74 |
| Burial | Little Dutch Church Cemetery, Halifax, Halifax Co., Nova Scotia, CANADA |
| Marriage | 29 Sep 1801, Halifax, Halifax County, Nova Scotia, CANADA |
| Children | Henry Smith (Twin) (1804-1889) |
| George (Twin Died as Child) (1804-1817) | |
| William (~1807->1872) | |
| John Alexander (1811-1905) |
[NOTE] Little Dutch Church, Halifax, Canada
In the struggle for supremacy in Nova Scotia between France and England, Governor Edward Cornwallis recruited "Foreign Protestants" from Germany, Switzerland, France and the district of Montbéliard to come to Halifax in 1750 to counter the influence of the French and the Catholics in Nova Scotia.
The group of Germans who came and remained in Halifax settled in the "north suburb", an area which had been assigned to them. Referring to themselves as Deutsch, or German, they were incorrectly labelled "Dutch" by the locals.
They began construction of a church on their burial ground at the corner of Brunswick and Gerrish Streets in 1756. Church records indicate that an existing building may have been moved to the site and reconstructed. A steeple and a bell were added to create the church. They dedicated it to Saint George, and it soon became known as the Little "Dutch" Church. It was the first Lutheran church in Canada. Recent excavations suggest that the building was placed over a mass grave, possibly of epidemic victims. - [3]
[NOTE] Little Dutch Church Archaeological Project
Built in 1756, the Little Dutch Church was the first Lutheran church in Canada. In 1994 a tragic fire occurred and one third of the building was damaged. In an attempt to assess the structural integrity of the building, a team ripped up a section of floor and entered the underlying crawl space. What they discovered was three crypts and human bones scattered on the ground.
In 1996, a team from Saint Mary's University tested several areas outside the crypts, and found a shallow mass grave with at least ten bodies, stacked two or three layers deep. All the remains were removed to the University Physical Anthropology Laboratory and analysed.
The bodies from the crypts were identified as Anna and Otto Schwartz, and Bernard Michael Houseal, individuals between the age of 60 and 80. Those from the mass gravesite were probably immigrants recruited to augment the "Foreign Protestant" population in Nova Scotia, who travelled on the ship Anne in September 1750, and had contracted typhus fever on board and died.
The epidemic may have caused the deaths of nearly twenty per cent of the population of Halifax; records show at least fifty people of German ancestry expired from 1749-1751. - [2]
[NOTE] Website [4] states that George died in February 1846 in Halifax.
[1] - http://ftp.rootsweb.com/pub/usgenweb/ca/riverside/descendants/jost.txt
[2] - http://www.multiculturaltrails.ca/level_3/number104.html
[3] - http://www.multiculturaltrails.ca/level_3/number103.html
[4] - http://users.cs.dal.ca/~jost/GEN/D0006/I561.html