Diary of David Zeisberger, a Moravian Missionary among the Indians of Ohio

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Author: David Zeisberger (1721-1808) Year: 1885 Publisher: Robert Clarke Co Place: Cincinnati Description: 2 volumes [xxii]+464 pages; [iv]+535 pages with index. Royal octavo (9 1/2" x 6 3/4") bound in original publisher's green cloth with gilt lettering to spine and double blind-stamped ruled edge to cover, head page ends in gilt. Published by Robert Clarke Co for the Historical and Philosophical Society of Ohio. Translated from the original German manuscript and edited by Eugene F Bliss. Bound in green cloth with gilt lettering to spine, gilt head end pages. [Howes Z5] First edition. David Zeisberger was a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native Americans in the Thirteen Colonies. He established communities of Munsee (Lenape) converts to Christianity in the valley of the Muskingum River in Ohio; and for a time, near modern-day Amherstburg, Ontario.Zeisberger was born in Zauchtenthal, Moravia (present day Suchdol nad Odrou in the Czech Republic) and moved with his family to the newly established Moravian Christian community of Herrnhut, on the estate of Count Nicolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf in the German Electorate of Saxony in 1727. However, when his family migrated to the newly established English colony in Georgia, Zeisberger remained in Europe to complete his education. In 1738, he came to Georgia in the United States, with the assistance of governor James Edward Oglethorpe. He later rejoined his family in the Moravian community at Savannah, Georgia. At the tim

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