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Title
Gnadenhutten
Massacre
illustration
Subject
Moravian Church -- Missions -- Ohio
Delaware Indians -- History -- 18th century
Ohio History -- Settlement and Early Statehood
Time Period
1780s
Place
Gnadenhutten (Ohio)
Tuscarawas County (Ohio)
Description
Illustration
depicting
the
murder
of
Delaware
people
who
had
converted
to
Christianity
at the
Moravian
Mission
of
Gnadenhutten
. On
March
8
and
9
,
1782
, a
group
of
Pennsylvania
militiamen
under
the
command
of
Captain
David
Williamson
attacked
the
Moravian
Church
mission
founded
by
David
Zeisberger
at
Gnadenhutten
,
Ohio
. The
Americans
attacked
the
Native
Americans
in
retaliation
for the
deaths
and
kidnappings
of
several
white
Pennsylvanians
,
although
these
Native
Americans
had not been
involved
in the
incidents
in
question
. The
Christian
Delawares
had
abandoned
Gnadenhutten
the
year
before
, but
some
of them had
returned
to
harvest
crops
that were
still
in the
fields
. In
all
,
Williamson's
men
murdered
twenty-eight
men
,
twenty-nine
women
, and
thirty-nine
children
. There were
only
two
survivors
,
who
informed
the
Moravian
missionaries
and
other
Christian
Indians
as to what had
occurred
.
Date of Original
1782
Collection
Printed
Material
Source
Library
;
Page
80
Format
Picture
;
Print
Submitting Institution
Ohio Historical Society
Rights
Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to
http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
Type
StillImage
File Name
AL02709.tif
Image Height
2802
Image Width
2802
File Size
5030984 Bytes
Notes
Not
online
.
Illustration
reproduced
from a
book.
;
Cataloged
:
Yes
;
Museum
Catalog
Number
:
977.1
H839
Date created
2011-08-04
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