| Repository: | Western Reserve Historical Society |
| Creator: | Heckewelder, John gottlieb Ernestus |
| Title: | John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder Diaries |
| Dates: | 1786-1789 |
| Extent: | 0.20 linear feet (1 container) |
| Abstract: | John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder (1743-1823) was a Moravian missionary who worked to Christianize Indians in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Heckewelder, David Zeisberger, and Christian Delaware Indians migrated from Pennsylvania to the Ohio territory and laid out Schoenbrunn ("Beautiful Spring") in 1772 along the Tuscarawas River. They also founded Gnadenhutten ("Tents of Grace") further downstream, where nearly 100 Christian Indians were murdered by whites in 1782. The collection consists of a diary kept while journeying with Sarah and Anna Heckewelder from the "Cayahoga river" to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, October 5-Nov.ember 15, 1786; diary kept while journeying with Abraham Steiner from Bethlehem to Pettiquotting near the Huron River and Lake Erie, and back to Bethlehem, April 17-June 20, 1789; and a church history of the Moravians, undated. |
| MS Number | MS 0813 |
| Location: | closed stacks |
| Language: | The records are in English |
The John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder Diaries, 1786, 1789, and undated, consist of diaries and an undated history. Translated and copied by Aug. H. Liebert.
This collection will be useful to researchers studying the early history of the Western Reserve and missionary efforts of the Moravian church in the eighteenth century. Those interested in efforts to Christianize Native Americans of the Delaware Tribe in Pennsylvania and Ohio during the late eighteenth century will find this collection useful.
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The following terms have been used to index the description of this collection in the library's online public access catalog.
[Container ___, Folder ___ ] MS 813 John Gotlieb Ernestus Heckewelder Diaries, Western Reserve Historical Society, Cleveland, Ohio
Gift of C. C. Baldwin in 1894.