Gnadenhütten (; ) the name of settlements founded by the German Moravian Church. The word was transliterated as ''Canatanheat'' by the missionary John Brainerd in his account. Thomas Brainerd, John Brainerd: ''The Life of John Brainerd: The Brother of David Brainerd, and His Successor as Missionary to the Indians of New Jersey ...''
Presbyterian Publication Committee, 1865, p.197. Footnote: "This was, doubtless, Gnadenhütten, founded by the Moravians in 1746. It was situated on the Mahoning Creek, near the

Lehigh River The Lehigh River is a U.S. Geological Survey. National Hydrography Dataset high-resolution flowline dataThe National Map, accessed April 1, 2011 tributary of the Delaware River in eastern Pennsylvania. The river flows in a generally southward pat ...

,..." The proper German spelling without the umlaut ü is ''Gnadenhuetten''. American usage settled for ''Gnadenhutten'', even though 19th century sources had used the umlaut. Two settlements in the North American colonies were named Gnadenhütten. Each suffered massacres, called the

Gnadenhütten massacre The Gnadenhutten massacre, also known as the Moravian massacre, was the killing of 96 pacifist Moravian Christian Indians (primarily Lenape and Mohican) by U.S. militiamen from Pennsylvania, under the command of David Williamson, on March 8, ...

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Gnadenhütten, Pennsylvania Lehighton () is a borough in Carbon County, Pennsylvania. It is part of Northeastern Pennsylvania. Lehighton is located northwest of Allentown and northwest of Philadelphia. Due in part to water power from the Lehigh River, Lehighton was an ...

, in 1755 during the Seven Years' War (called the French and Indian War in the US) * Gnadenhütten, Ohio, in 1782 during the American Revolutionary War

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