was heard by Col. Lowther and his life saved.

[16] The Moravian Indians were originally from the
Susquehanna River. They moved to the Tuscarawas River in
1772, under the missionaries Zeisberger and Heckewelder,
who built two villages on the eastern bank of that river, on
land set apart for them by the Delawares: Schoenbrunn, about
three miles south-east of the present New Philadelphia, in
what is now Goshen township, Tuscarawas County, O., and
Gnadenhuetten, lower down, in the outskirts of the present
town of that name, in Clay township. The principal Delaware
town, at that time, was some distance below, near the site of
the present Newcomerstown; this was later moved to what is now
Coshocton, at the confluence of the Tuscarawas and Walholding,
which unite to form the Muskingum. At this time there was a
Moravian village called Friedensstadt, on Beaver River, in what
is now Lawrence County, Pa. In 1776 a new village for the
accommodation of converts was established on the east bank of
the Muskingum, two and a half miles below Coshocton, and called
Lichtenau; William Edwards was the missionary in charge. In
consequence of the disturbances on the border, Schoenbrunn and
Gnadenhuetten were deserted in 1777, and all the teachers
returned to Pennsylvania save Zeisberger and Edwards, who
gathered the Indians together at Lichtenau; but in the spring
of 1778, Gnadenhuetten was re-occupied, with Edwards in
charge. This was not for a long time, however, for in July we
find Zeisberger, Heckewelder, and Edwards in charge of the
union station at Lichtenau, the others being deserted. The
spring of 1779 finds Edwards again at the resuscitated
Gnadenhuetten, Zeisberger re-occupying Schoenbrunn with a
small party, and Heckewelder at Lichtenau. Later in the
season Zeisberger began New Schoenbrunn on the west bank of
the Tuscarawas, in what is now Goshen township, a quarter of a
mile from the present Lockport, and a mile and a quarter
south of New Philadelphia; thither he removed his flock in
December. In the spring of 1780, Heckewelder abandoned
Lichtenau, and took his converts to the west bank of the
Tuscarawas, where he established Salem, in the present Salem
township, a mile and a hal