Research Catalog

Title

Blackcoats among the Delaware : David Zeisberger on the Ohio frontier / Earl P. Olmstead.

Author

Olmstead, Earl P., 1920-

Publication

Kent, Ohio : Kent State University Press, c1991.

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Details

Description

xviii, 283 p. : ill. (some col.); 24 cm.

Summary

Thousands of pages of diaries and hundreds of letters serve as David Zeisberger's testament to sixty-three years as a Moravian missionary among North American Indians. This unrivaled record of Indian culture and colonial life provides firsthand evidence of the eighteenth-century struggle between the American Indians and their British and American adversaries. Readers of Blackcoats among the Delaware will find new and interesting historical data taken from recently discovered correspondence and previously untranslated diaries, as well as a fascinating analysis of Zeisberger's unique approach to Christian philosophy vis-a-vis native Indian religion and culture. The final section of the book is devoted to discussing the often tragic lives of the forty Indians buried with Zeisberger in the Goshen cemetery. - Back cover.

Subject

• Zeisberger, David, 1721-1808
• Moravian Church > Missions > Ohio > Tuscarawas County
• Moravian Church > Missions > Ohio > Tuscarawas River Valley
• Delaware Indians > Missions
• Delaware Indians > History > Sources
• Missionaries > Ohio > Tuscarawas County > Biography
• Missionaries > Ohio > Tuscarawas River Valley > Biography
• Tuscarawas County (Ohio) > History > Sources
• Tuscarawas River Valley (Ohio) > History > Sources

Genre/Form

• Biographies
• History
• Sources

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (p. 267-272) and index.

Processing Action (note)

• committed to retain

Contents

Part 1 : The wilderness years, 1772-1798. The ambiguous Delaware -- The great dispersement -- From disaster to a new beginning -- Return to the Ohio country -- Pettquotting : the new Salem -- From the Detroit River to the Retrenche -- Part 2 : The Goshen Mission years, 1798-1821. The Goshen Mission -- Goshen Mission life : an overview -- Without their beloved David -- Part 3 : Record of burials, the Goshen Mission Cemetery. Origins of the Goshen biographical sketches -- Burials 1-44, 1799-1823 -- Appendixes. Moravian missions in North America, 1740-1821 -- The Goshen Mission : annual population statistics -- Population graph : Goshen Mission, 1798-1821 -- Map of interments, Goshen Mission Cemetery -- Statutes of Languntoutenunk and Welhik-Tuppeek -- Genealogies : William Henry and Ignatius families ; Josua, Sr., and John Papunhank families -- Grave registry, Goshen Mission Cemetery.

ISBN

• 0873384229 (cloth :alk. paper)
• 0873384342 (paper : alk. paper)

LCCN

^^^90047576^

OCLC

• 22421052
• SCSB-11757984

Owning Institutions

Harvard Library