Isaac, who had been converted at the Moravian’s mission at Shekomeko near the New York-Connecticut border, died on Aug. 2, 1746. And then Thomas, whose Indian name was Pechtowappid and who was ...

The Massacre at Gnadenhutten, Ohio is the lesser-known and brutal slaughter of The Moravian Indians. These Men, women, and children who practiced Christianity and pacifism suffered at the hands of the ...

Among them is a young Indian woman who has taken the name Rachel after her baptism. She has married a Moravian missionary named Christian Frederick Post, who would later play an important role in ...

The 250th anniversary of the Gnadenhuetten massacre, in which 10 Moravian missionaries were killed by American Indians in a settlement in what now is Lehighton, will be observed at the victims ...

Megan van Ravenswaay, director of the Moravian Historical Society called ... as well as interactions with American Indians and European settlers. The first entry discusses the founding of Nazareth ...

The Rev. Mr. Killbuck is a Delaware Indian, and during the Rev. A. Hartmann's absence in Alaska had charge of the Moravian Indian Mission in Canada. Both gentlemen graduated with high honors from ...

This had been the site of a Delaware Indian village, home of the father of the famous Chief Teedyuscung. The founder of the Moravian Church, County Zinzindorf, had visited that village as early as ...

In the Moravian community of the day ... To his left rests first-name-only Ben, an Indian who died in 1746. James Burnside, who wasn’t a farmer but became one because that’s what the community ...

Finally, he joined a group of Moravian Indians living in Bethlehem where the current City Hall is located. Here they got along peacefully in the community. Unfortunately, the Indians had no ...

and were despised by the heathen Indians on that account." Their wives wanted to move to Pettquotting, a Moravian mission near present-day Milan, Ohio, where their relatives lived. "These ...

The site actually is hallowed ground. It was the first Moravian graveyard in the Nazareth area, used from 1744 to 1762. The name “Indian graveyard” is a misnomer. Of the 67 burials recorded ...