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Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society-a publication that ran in volumes from 1868 to 2000. Journal of Moravian History -a biannual publication and expanded version of Transactions , created in 2006 in collaboration with the Moravian Archives and now published by Pennsylvania State University Press.
Christian Spring. Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, Vol. 1, No. 2 (1868 - 1876). Jacobson, Henry A. Revolutionary Notes on Friedensthal, Christian Spring, and Nazareth. Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, Vol. II, No. 1 (1877-1886). Beck, Clara A. The Single Brethren of the Moravian Church in the Barony of Nazareth.
Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, Volume 7 (1910) [Poem titled "Morgelied"] Hogan Hacker, Nazareth Hall: An Historical Sketch and Roster of Principals, Teachers and Pupils (1910) Harry Hess Reichard, Pennsylvania-German Dialect Writings and Their Writers: A Paper Prepared at the Request of the Pennsylvania-German Society (1918)
Joseph Maximilian Hark, Meniolagomeka: Annals of a Moravian Indian Village an Hundred and Thirty Years Ago (1880) Dedication of the Monument at Meniolagomeka, October 22, 1901 (Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, 1902)
Tobias Conrad Lotter's 1756 map of Eastern Pennsylvania and New Jersey depicting Gnadenhütten, left of the map's center. The Gnadenhütten massacre was an attack during the French and Indian War in which Native allies of the French killed 11 Moravian missionaries at Gnadenhütten, Pennsylvania (modern day Lehighton, Pennsylvania) on 24 November 1755.
The Moravian Church is one of the world's oldest Protestant denominations. Its name comes from the historical provinces of Bohemia and Moravia in what is now the Czech Republic. Their beliefs of practice over dogma began with a religious reformer, John Hus, who led a protest movement against some of the practices of Roman Catholic hierarchy.
After learning the weaving trade from his father, he left home in 1742 for the Moravian congregation in Herrnhut. There, he learned the pottery trade from Andreas Dober. A decade later, he moved to Niesky, where he remained for two years. [2] He sailed from London, aboard the Irene, on 22 September 1754, and arrived in New York two months later.
The house has been in Moravian hands for years, and has operated as a place of worship, boarding school, place for mission work, nursery, the Moravian Theological Seminary, and apartments for furloughed missionaries. Currently, the Moravian Historical Society uses the building as its historical museum, administrative offices, and gift shop. [2] [3]