David Zeisberger (11 April 1721 – 17 November 1808) was a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native Americans in the Thirteen Colonies, who established communities of converts in the valley of the Muskingum River in Ohio, and for a time, near modern Amherstburg, Ontario. April 11 is the 101st day of the year in the Gregorian calendar (102nd in leap years). ... // Events Pope Innocent XIII becomes pope Johann Sebastian Bach composes the Brandenburg Concertos April 4 - Robert Walpole becomes the first prime minister of Britain September 10 - Treaty of Nystad is signed, bringing an end to the Great Northern War November 2 - Peter I is proclaimed Emperor of All the Russias... 17 November is also the name of a Marxist group in Greece. ... 1808 was a leap year starting on Friday (see link for calendar). ... A Moravian can be: an ethnic group a Christian denomination This is a disambiguation page — a navigational aid which lists other pages that might otherwise share the same title. ... see also Holy Orders The following terms have traditional meanings for the Anglican Church, and possibly beyond: A churchman is in principle a member of a church congregation, in practice someone in holy orders. ... A missionary is a propagator of religion, often an evangelist or other representative of a religious community who works among those outside of that community. ... Assiniboin Boy, an Atsina Native Americans in the United States (also Indians, American Indians, First Americans, Indigenous Peoples, Aboriginal Peoples, Aboriginal Americans, Amerindians, Amerinds, or Original Americans) are those indigenous peoples within the territory which is now encompassed by the continental United States, and their descendants in modern times. ... Betsy Ross purportedly sewed the first American flag with 13 stars and 13 stripes representing each of the 13 colonies. ... The Muskingum River is a tributary of the Ohio River, approximately 111 mi (179 km) long, in eastern Ohio in the United States. ... State nickname: The Buckeye State Other U.S. States Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus (largest metropolitan area is Cleveland) Governor Bob Taft (R) Senators Mike DeWine (R) George V. Voinovich (R) Official language(s) None Area 116,096 km² (34th)  - Land 106,154 km²  - Water 10,044 km² (8. ... Map of Essex County with Amherstburg in red Amherstburg (2001 population 20,339; Urban population 10,849) is a town near the mouth of the Detroit River in Essex County, Ontario, Canada. ... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Area 1,076,395 km² (4th) • Land 917,741 km² • Water 158,654 km² (14. ...

Zeisberger was born in central Czechoslovakian region of Moravia, but moved with his family to the German principality of Saxony in 1727. When his family migrated to the newly established English colony in Georgia, he remained in Europe to complete his education. With the assistance of governor James Edward Oglethorpe, he later rejoined his family in the Moravian community of Savanna, Georgia. Czechoslovakia (Czech: Československo, Slovak: Česko-Slovensko/before 1990 Československo, German: Tschechoslowakei) was a country in Central Europe that existed from 1918 until 1992 (except for the World War II period). ... With an area of 18,413 km² and a population of 4. ... James Edward Oglethorpe (22 December 1696 - 30 June 1785) was an English general and philanthropist, a founder of the state of Georgia. ... Savannah Savannah is a city located in Chatham County, Georgia. ...

Zeisberger was influential in the development of a Moravian community in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania in 1739. In 1745, he came to live among the Mohawk people at the invitation of their leader Hendrick. He became fluent in the Onondaga Iroquoian dialect and assisted Conrad Weiser in negotiating an alliance between the English and the Iroquois in Onondaga, near present-day Syracuse, New York. He also produced dictionaries and religious works in both Iroquoian and Algonquian. Bethlehem is a city located in Lehigh and Northampton Counties in eastern Pennsylvania, USA. As of the 2000 census, the city had a total population of 71,329. ... The Republic of Kanienkeh, or the Kanienkehaka Nation (Mohawk) of Native American people live around Lake Ontario and the St. ... This engraving of Hendrick was made around the time he attended the Albany Congress in 1754. ... Conrad Weiser (November 2, 1696 - July 13, 1760) was a German pioneer who flourished in Pennsylvania during the eighteenth century. ... The Iroquois Confederacy (Haudenosaunee, also known as the League of Peace and Power, Five Nations, or Six Nations) is a group of First Nations/Native Americans. ... Onondaga is the name of some places in North America: Onondaga, Michigan Onondaga, New York Onondaga, Ontario Onondaga County, New York Onondaga Lake Onondaga Reservation, New York Onondaga Township, Michigan Other meanings: Onondaga Native American Iroquois First Nations group Onandaga Cave State Park in Leasburg, Missouri Onondaga Camp Minden,Ontario... Clinton Square in Downtown Syracuse Syracuse is an American city in Central New York. ... The Algonquian (also Algonkian) languages are a subfamily of Native American languages that includes most of the languages in the Algic language family (others are Wiyot and Yurok of northwestern California). ...

Ordained a Moravian minister in 1749, he began a career as a missionary to Native American peoples in the region. He worked among the Lenape (Delaware) of Pennsylvania, and came into conflict with British authorities over his advocacy of Indian rights and his ongoing efforts to establish white and native Moravian communities in southern Ohio. His relations with British authorities worsened during the American Revolutionary War, and he was arrested in 1781 and held at Fort Detroit. While Zeisberger was under arrest, nearly 100 of his Lenape converts back in Ohio were murdered by Pennsylvania militiamen in the Gnadenhütten massacre. The Lenape or Lenni-Lenape (later named Delaware Indians by Europeans) were, in the 1600s, loosely organized bands of Native American people practicing small-scale agriculture to augment a largely mobile hunter-gatherer society in the region around the Delaware River, the lower Hudson River, and western Long Island Sound. ... State nickname: The Buckeye State Other U.S. States Capital Columbus Largest city Columbus (largest metropolitan area is Cleveland) Governor Bob Taft (R) Senators Mike DeWine (R) George V. Voinovich (R) Official language(s) None Area 116,096 km² (34th)  - Land 106,154 km²  - Water 10,044 km² (8. ... The American Revolutionary War (1775–1783), also known as the American War of Independence, was a war fought primarily between Great Britain and revolutionaries within thirteen British colonies in North America. ... Building and origins of Fort Detroit Fort Detroit began as a settlement on the Detroit River called Fort Ponchartrain. ... This 37-foot (11. ...

After his release, violent conflicts with British allied tribes and the expansion of white settlement in the region forced the relocation of many Moravian Christian settlements to present-day Michigan and Ontario. A large group of Lenape people relocated to those areas in 1782, but Zeisberger returned to permanently settle among the remaining Christian Delaware near Goshen, Ohio in 1798. State nickname: The Wolverine State, The Great Lakes State Other U.S. States Capital Lansing Largest city Detroit Governor Jennifer Granholm (D) Senators Carl Levin (D) Debbie Stabenow (D) Official language(s) English de-facto Area 96,889 mi² / 250,941 km² (11th)  - Land 56,855 mi² / 147,255 km²... Motto: Ut Incepit Fidelis Sic Permanet (Loyal she began, loyal she remains) Other Canadian provinces and territories Capital Toronto Largest city Toronto Lieutenant-Governor James K. Bartleman Premier Dalton McGuinty (Liberal) Area 1,076,395 km² (4th) • Land 917,741 km² • Water 158,654 km² (14. ... Goshen is an unincorporated community of northern Clermont County in Goshen Township, on State Route 28 midway between Milford and Blanchester. ...

External links

• Biography at the Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online