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Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder (March 12, 1743 –
January 21, 1823) was an
American missionary for the
Moravian Church.
Heckewelder was born in Bedford...
- than an
English "ch". The
digraph ⟨ch⟩ in the
spelling used by John
Heckewelder, the
source for the name, and the
letter ⟨x⟩ in
modern Lenape spelling...
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British took the
Moravian Christian missionaries David Zeisberger and John
Heckewelder under guard back to Fort Detroit,
where they
tried the two men on charges...
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original on
November 1, 2020.
Retrieved March 3, 2018. John
Heckewelder (Loskiel): Conoys, Ganawese, etc.
explains Charles A.
Hanna (Vol II,...
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group and are
largely mutually intelligible.
Moravian missionary John
Heckewelder wrote that
Munsee and
Unami "came out of one
parent language." Only a...
- 1783 and the area was then
opened to
European American settlers. John
Heckewelder from
Pennsylvania built the
first house in 1798, and
Moravians remain...
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Moravian practices, such as the
following taught by
David Zeisberger, John
Heckewelder and John Ettwein: I. We will know no
other God, but the one only true...
- language. One is a 146-word list
compiled by
Moravian missionary John
Heckewelder in 1785, from his
interview with a
Nanticoke chief then
living in Canada...
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Tuscarawas Valley.
Christian Frederick Post,
David Zeisberger, and John
Heckewelder met with
Chief Netawatwees of the
western Delaware Indians, also known...
- of the "retired and
hidden situation of its mouth".
According to John
Heckewelder, a
missionary who
worked among the
local Lenape Indians, the
native name...
