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Author: De Schweinitz, Edmund Alexander, 1825-1887.
Title: The life and times of David Zeisberger : the western pioneer and apostle of the Indians /
Print source: The life and times of David Zeisberger : the western pioneer and apostle of the Indians / by Edmund De Schweinitz.
De Schweinitz, Edmund Alexander, 1825-1887.
Philadelphia: J.B. Lippincott & Co., 1870.
Publication Info: Pittsburgh: University of Pittsburgh, Digital Research Library
2008-03-01
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Subject terms:
Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808.
Moravian Church--Missions--Ohio--Tuscarawas River Valley.
Missionaries--Ohio--Tuscarawas River Valley--Biography.
Frontier and pioneer life--Ohio--Tuscarawas River Valley.
Indians of North America--Ohio--Tuscarawas River Valley.
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Contents
[Front Cover]
[Front Matter]
[Title Page]
Preface.
[Table of Contents]
Chapter I. The Early Years of David Zeisberger.--1721-43.
Chapter II. The Indians at the Time when Europeans began to settle [...]
Chapter III. New York and Pennsylvania about the year 1745. [...]
Chapter IV. Government, Manners, Customs, Character, and Religion [...]
Chapter V. Missionary Operations among the Indians previous to Zeisberger's Times.--1594-1745.
Chapter VI. Zeisberger a Student at Bethlehem, a Prisoner at New York [...]
Chapter VII. His Labors at Shamokin and in the Valley of Wyoming.--1745-1750.
Chapter VIII. Zeisberger and Cammerhoff on an Embassy to Onondaga.--1750.
Chapter IX. His Visit to Europe and first Labors after his Return.--1750-1752.
Chapter X. Zeisberger a Resident of Onondaga.--1752.
Chapter XI. Zeisberger a Resident of Onondaga.--1753-1755.
Chapter XII. The Months prior to the Indian War, [...]
Chapter XIII. The French and Indian War.--1756-1761.
Chapter XIV. Zeisberger's first Labors after the French and Indian War.--1762,1763.
Chapter XV. The Pontiac War and the Paxton Insurrection.--1763, 1764.
Chapter XVI. Zeisberger at Friedenshutten.--1765, 1766.
Chapter XVII. Zeisberger's Exploratory Tour to the Indians of the Alleghany River.--1767.
Chapter XVIII. Zeisberger a Missionary at Goschgoschunk.--1768, 1769.
Chapter XIX. Zeisberger at Lawuakhannek.--1769, 1770.
Chapter XX. On the Beaver River, and first Visit to Ohio.--1770, 1771.
Chapter XXI. The Susquehanna Converts settle in the West. [...]
Chapter XXII. Zeisberger's Visits to the Shawnese [...]
Chapter XXIII. Dunmore's War.--1774.
Chapter XXIV. The Great Plans of Zeisberger and White Eyes.--1774.
Chapter XXV. Religious Liberty in the Delaware Nation [...]
Chapter XXVI. Lichtenau founded on the Muskingum.--1776.
Chapter XXVII. The Mission during the Western Border War of the Revolution.--1776, 1777.
Chapter XXVIII. The Mission during the Western Border War [...]
Chapter XXIX. Lichtenau abadoned and New Schonbrunn and Salem built.--1779, 1780.
Chapter XXX. Zeisberger's Marriage and last Visit to the Settlements.--1781.
Chapter XXXI. Capture of the Missionaries [...]
Chapter XXXII. The Missionaries and Christian Indians carried off to the Sandusky.--1781.
Chapter XXXIII. The Trial and Acquittal of the Missionaries.--1781.
Chapter XXXIV. The Missionaries at Captives' Town until their Remandment to Detroit.--1781, 1782.
Chapter XXXV. The Massacre at Gnadenhutten.--1782.
Chapter XXXVI. Zeisberger at Lower Sandusky and Detroit.--1782.
Chapter XXXVII. Second Campaign against the Christian Indians, [...]
Chapter XXXVIII. Zeisberger at New Gnadenhutten, in Michigan.--1782-1786.
Chapter XXXIX. Zeisberger on the Cuyahoga, Ohio.--1786, 1787.
Chapter XL. Zeisberger founds New Salem on the Pettquotting.--1787-1789.
Chapter XLI. Zeisberger at New Salem amid the first Indications of War.--1789-1791.
Chapter XLII. Zeisberger at the Mouth of the Detroit River.--1791, 1792.
Chapter XLIII. Zeisberger founds Fairfield, in Canada.--1792-1795.
Chapter XLIV. Further Stay of Zeisberger at Fairfiled.--1795-1798.
Chapter XLV. Zeisberger returns to Ohio and founds Goshen.--1798-1807.
Chapter XLVI. The last Year of Zeisberger's Life.--1808.
Chapter XLVII. The literary Works of David Zeisberger.
Chapter XLVIII. The Indian Mission [...]
Appendix. A Brief Sketch of the Moravian Church.
Geographical Glossary.
Index.
[Back Matter]
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