The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, Abridged Edition

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 Editorial Policy 1. The editorial policy for this abridgment follows the policy set for The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees, xv–xxii. 2. Julian P. Boyd, “‘God’s Altar Need Not Our Pollishings’” in New York History 39, no. 1 (January 1958): 3–21. 3. Tiya A. Miles has written The House on Diamond Hill: A Cherokee Plantation Story (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2010) on Cherokee slaveholding and Vann slavery. Information about Vann slavery has been extracted from The Moravian Springplace Mission to the Cherokees. Introduction 1. I am using Craig Atwood’s historical understanding and application of the term Brüdergemeine from his Community of the Cross: Moravian Piety in Colonial Bethlehem, Max Kade German American Research Institute Series (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2004). I use the terms Brüdergemeine and Moravian interchangeably. 2. For the most recent study of Springplace Mission and the roles of Cherokee and Moravian women, in particular Anna Rosina’s, see Anna Smith, “Unlikely Sisters: Cherokee and Moravian Women in the Early Nineteenth Century,” in Pious Pursuits: German Moravians in the Atlantic World, ed. Michele Gillespie and Robert Beachy (New York: Berghahn Books, 2007), 191–206. 3. Frederick A. Cook, Larry D. Brown, and Jack E. Oliver, “The Southern Notes notes to page 2 118 Appalachians and the Growth of Continents,” Scientific American 243 (October 1980): 163–65; Albert E. Cowdry, The Land,This South: An Environmental History (Lexington: University Press of Kentucky, 1983), 1; Timothy Silver, The New Age of the Countryside: Indian, Colonists, and Slaves in South Atlantic Forest, 1500–1800 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1990), 10–12; William Cronon, Changes in the Land: Indians, Colonists, and the Ecology of New England (New York: Hill and Wang, 1996); Alfred W. Crosby, Ecological Imperialism: The Biological Expansion of Europe, 900–1900 (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1986) 4. John Melish, TheTraveller’s Directory through the United States (Philadelphia: T. H. Palmer, 1819), 32. 5. See also the following works that entail Moravian missionary work from 1735 to 1821: Adelaide L. Fries, Moravians in Georgia, 1735–1740 (Raleigh nc: Edwards and Broughton, 1905); John Heckewelder, Narrative of the Missions of the United Brethren among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians, from its Commencement, in the Year 1740, to the Close in theYear, 1808 (Philadelphia: McCarthy and Davis, 1820; reprint, Arno Press and New York Times, 1971); Jane T. Merritt, “Dreaming of the Savior’s Blood: Moravians and the Indian Great Awakening in Pennsylvania,” William and Mary Quarterly 54 (1997): 723–46; Linda Sabathy-Judd, Moravians in Upper Canada: The Fairfield Diary, 1792–1813 (Toronto: Champlain Society, 1999); Amy C. Schutt, Peoples of the River Valleys: The Odyssey of the Delaware Indians (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2007); Corinna DallyStarna and William A. Starna, “American Indians and Moravians in Southern New England” in Germans and Indians: Fantasies, Encounters, Projections, ed. Colin G. Calloway, Gerd Gemünden, and Susanne Zantrop (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2002); Carola Wessel, Delaware-Indianer und Herrnhuter Missionare im Upper Ohio Valley, 1772–1781, Hallesche Forschungen, 4 (Tübingen: Verlag der Franckeschen Stiftungen Halle im Max Niemeyer Verlag, 1999), 267–88, 311–44; and Hermann Wellenreuter and Wessel, Herrnhuter Indianermission in der Amerikanishchen Revolution: Die Tagesbücher von David Zeisberger 1772 bis 1781 (Berlin: Akademie Verlag, 1995). For studies of interracial cooperation with emphasis on settler expansion creating a racially tense landscape, refer to Jane T. Merritt, At the Crossroads: Indians and Empires on a Mid-Atlantic Frontier, 1700–1763 (Chapel Hill: University of North Carolina Press, 2003). Chapter 4, “Mission Community Network,” entails a study of Moravian mission communities among the Mahicans and Delawares. Recent publications pertaining to eighteenth-century Moravian mission work among Natives are: Katherine Cartè Engel, Religion and Profit: Moravians in Early America (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2009); Schutt, Peoples of the River Valleys; Corinna Dally-Starna and William A. Starna, ed. and trans., notes to pages 2–3 119 Gideon’s People, 2 vols. (Lincoln: University of Nebraska Press, 2009); the English translation, Carola Wessel and Hermann Wellenreuter, eds., The Moravian Mission Diaries of David Zeisberger (University Park: Pennsylvania State University Press, 2005); and Rachel Wheeler, To Live upon Hope: Mohicans and Missionaries in the Eighteenth-Century Northeast (Ithaca ny: Cornell University Press, 2008). 6. Edmund Schwarze, History of the Moravian Missions among Southern Indian Tribes of the United States (1923; reprint, Grove ok: Stauber Books...