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Earl P. Olmstead, Blackcoats Among the Delaware: David Zeisberger on the Ohio Frontier (Kent State University Press)

Earl P. Olmstead

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Earl P. Olmstead's academic biography of the Moravian missionary David Zeisberger, drawing on thousands of pages of Zeisberger's own diaries and correspondence, traces the founding and destruction of the Ohio mission villages Zeisberger built among the Lenape and Mahican, including Gnadenhutten, and the years the Moravian mission in North America spent recovering from the 1782 massacre.

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1
A Kent State University Press academic biography built on the missionary's own diaries and correspondence, tier 1, matching the tier the map gives comparable university press primary source biographies, used here for the mission's founding, destruction and recovery, corroborated by the Ohio History Connection's own archival record.
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Used for the founding, destruction and later recovery of Zeisberger's Ohio mission villages, including Gnadenhutten.
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Earl P. Olmstead
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Kent State University Press
Source Type
academic biography
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Americas, Continents

This source names Americas directly: "Earl P. Olmstead's academic biography of the Moravian missionary David Zeisberger, drawing on thousands of pages of Zeisberger's own diaries and correspondence, traces the founding and destruction..."

This source names Ohio directly: "the founding and destruction of the Ohio mission villages Zeisberger built among the Lenape and Mahican, including Gnadenhutten, and the years the Moravian mission in North America spent recovering..."

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