[561] Life of Zeisberger, pp. 37, 98, 120.
[562] The Moravian Historical Society (Nazareth, Penna.) has taken active measures to preserve the records of their missionary work. In 1860 it published at Philadelphia A memorial of the dedication of monuments erected by the Moravian Historical Society, to mark the sites of ancient missionary stations in New York and Connecticut [by W. C. Reichel], which contains an account of the Moravians in New York and Connecticut; [Mission of] Shekomeko [N. Y.], by S. Davis; Visit of the committee [to Shekomeko and Wechquadnach], and the proceedings of the society and dedication of the monuments.
The society also began a series of transactions in 1876, whose first volume included Extracts from Zinzendorf’s Diary of his second, and in part of his third journey among the Indians, the former to Shekomeko, and the other among the Shawanese, on the Susquehanna. Transl. from a German MS. in the Bethlehem archives. By Eugene Schaeffer (1742), and Names which the Lenni Lenape or Delaware Indians gave to rivers, streams, and localities, within the States of Pennsylvania, New Jersey, Maryland, and Virginia, with their significations. Prepared from a MS. by J. Heckewelder, by William C. Reichel.
For the Moravians in Philadelphia, see Scharf and Westcott’s Hist. of Philad. (vol. ii. p. 1320, etc.), and Abraham Ritter’s Hist. of the Moravian Church in Philad. from its foundation in 1742 (Phil., 1857). Poole’s Index, p. 870, will enable the reader to trace the literature of which the Moravians have been the subject. The sect publish at Bethlehem a Manual, which is convenient for authoritative information.
[563] Jonathan Edwards wrote Brainerd’s life, using his diaries in part. In 1822 a new edition, by Sereno Edwards Dwight, included journals (June, 1745, to June, 1746) that had been published separately, which had been overlooked by Edwards. (Sabin, ii. nos. 7,339-7,346.) The Journal of a two months’ tour with a view of promoting religion among the frontier inhabitants of Pennsylvania, and introducing Christianity among the Indians west of the Alegh-geny Mountains, by Charles Beatty (London, 1768), is the result of a mission planned in England, and is addressed to the Earl of Dartmouth and other trustees of the Indian Charity School. In Perry’s Amer. Episcopal Church, chapter 19, is given an account of missionary labors among the Mohawks and other Indian tribes. Gideon Hawley’s account of his journey among the Mohawks in 1753 is in Mass. Hist. Soc. Coll., iv., and Doc. Hist. N. Y., iii.
[564] Lodge (p. 227) has epitomized this immigration. See references in Vol. III. p. 515.
[565] Cf. Redmond Conyngham, An account of the settlement of the Dunkers at Ephrata, in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. Added a short history of that religious society, by the late Rev. Christian Endress, of Lancaster, which makes part of the Historical Society of Penn. Memoirs. (1828, vol. ii. 133-153.) Cf. further Penna. Mag. of Hist., v. 276; Century, Dec., 1881; Schele de Vere on a “Protestant Convent” in Hours at Home, iv. 458. For their press see Thomas’s Hist. of Printing, i. 287; Catal. of Paintings in the Penna. Hist. Soc., 1872, p. 6; and Muller’s Books on America, 1877, no. 3,623.
[566] The Dutch of J. G. De Hoop Scheffer’s historical account of the friendly relations between the Dutch and Pennsylvania Baptists was printed at Amsterdam in 1869 (Muller, Books on America, 1872, no. 1,296), and, translated with notes by S. W. Pennypacker, it appeared as the “Mennonite Emigration to Pennsylvania” in the Penna. Mag. of Hist., ii. 117; also see S. W. Pennypacker’s Historical and Biog. Sketches (Philad., 1883); cf. further in R. Baird’s Religions in America (1856), E. K. Martin’s Mennonites (Philad., 1883), and M’Clintock and Strong’s Cyclopædia, vi. 98.
On the Baptists in general in Pennsylvania, see Sprague’s Amer. Pulpit, vol. vi.; Hist. Mag. (xiv. 76), for an account by H. G. Jones of the lower Dublin Baptist Church (1687), the mother church of the sect in Pennsylvania, and Morgan Edwards’s Materials towards a history of the Baptists in Pennsylvania, both British and German, distinguished into First-day Baptists, Keithian Baptists, Seventh-day Baptists, Tunker Baptists, Mennonist Baptists (Philad., 1770-1792), in two volumes; but the second volume applies to New Jersey. (Sabin, vi. 21,981.)
[567] Cf. James W. Dale’s Earliest settlement by Presbyterians on the Delaware River in Delaware County. (Philad., 1871; 28 pp.)