John Christopher Frederick Cammerhoff and David Zeisberger journal, 1750.

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John Christopher Frederick Cammerhoff and David Zeisberger journal, 1750.

Typescript translation of a journal kept by John Cammerhoff and David Zeisberger, two Moravian missionaries, as they journeyed through western New York in June and July, 1750. Journal includes accounts of hardships encountered and a description of the Seneca Indians at Genesee Castle, now Geneseo, New York. Translated from German by Clara Frueauff in 1882.

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Cammerhoff, John Christopher Frederick, 1721-1751

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Frueauff, Clara.

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Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808

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David Zeisberger served as a Moravian missionary. From the guide to the On the prepositions of the Onondago language, [n.d.], n.d., (American Philosophical Society) From the guide to the A grammar of the language of the Lenni Lennape, or Delaware Indians, [1816], Circa 1816, (American Philosophical Society) Moravian missionary who worked to convert the Indians of Tuscarawas County, Ohio to Christianity. After hostile Indians forced them to leave the area, Zeisberger...