Meniolagomeka (also Meniolágoméka) was a

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settlement of German missionaries and Lenape converts on the

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near Kunkletown and Smith's Gap in

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. Moravian workers included Brothers Bernhard Adam Grubè/Grube, John Joseph Bull (Schebosh), Nathanael Seidel, Georg Jungmann, Johann Peter Yarrel, Georg Jungmann, Abraham Bünninger, Johann Jacob Schmick, and Sisters Anna Margarethe Jungmann (née Bechtel, widowed Büttner) and

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. It was organized formally in 1742 on directions from Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf and had approximately 50-60 Indian and missionary residents. Lenape residents included Teedyuskung, Wiwumkamek, Telepuwechque, Kullis, Achkowema, Uchqueschis, Machschapochque, and Mamsochalend. The Moravians were evicted from Meniolagomeka as an after-effect of the

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and resettled at Gnadenhütten by 1754. A stone monument was dedicated by the

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on October 22, 1901.

References

*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)

External links

*
Finding aid of the records of the Records of the Moravian Missions to the American Indians
' Moravian Archives, Bethlehem
Lenape Nation of Pennsylvania
Populated places established in 1742 Monroe County, Pennsylvania 1742 establishments in Pennsylvania Moravian settlement in Pennsylvania Lenape Native American history of Pennsylvania