Moravian Indian mission records, 1739-1880.

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Moravian Indian mission records, 1739-1880.

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Letters, missionaries' travel journals, diaries of the missions, lists of members, reports, word lists and dictionaries, and translations into Indian languages. Most of the material is in German; some is in English, and some in Indian languages. Includes material on the Delaware, Mohican, Chippewa, and Cherokee Indians in New York State (at Shekomeko), Connecticut (at Pachgatgoch), Pennsylvania (at Gnadenhütten, Nain, Philadelphia, Shamokin, Wyalusing, Goschgoschünk), Ohio (at Schönbrunn, Gnadenhütten, Goshen, and Pilgerruh), Ontario (at Fairfield and New Fairfield), Kansas (at Westfield and New Westfield), Georgia, and Oklahoma. Missionaries prominent in the collection include David Zeisberger and John Heckewelder.

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Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus, 1743-1823

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John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder was a Moravian missionary. From the description of Letters and manuscripts, 1741-1822. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122523571 From the description of Journey with the commissioners to the Indian treaty, 1793. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 122579018 From the description of Letters and papers, 1789-1796. (American Philosophical Society Library). WorldCat record id: 1225...

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...