Gnadenhuetten, alternatively known as New Gnadenhuetten to distinguish from other settlements with similar names, was a

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mission located in present-day

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, then part of the British

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. It was established in 1782 by Rev.

David Zeisberger David Zeisberger (April 11, 1721 – November 17, 1808) was a Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native American tribes who resided in the Thirteen Colonies. He established communities of Munsee (Lenape) converts to Christianity in the ...

for

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who had relocated to the area from Ohio after the

Gnadenhutten 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, ...

there. It was closed in 1786 after being threatened by the Chippewa. Moravian Road now runs through the general area where the mission was.

Sources

*Walter Romig, ''Michigan Place Names'', p. 226-227. *Jonathan Quint, "New Gnadenhutten, Moravian Missionaries, and Ojibwe Land Tenure on the Clinton River, 1781–1787," ''Ethnohistory'' 70, no. 1 (January 2023): 25–44. 1782 establishments in the British Empire Province of Quebec (1763–1791) Macomb County, Michigan Lenape 1786 disestablishments in the United States Moravian Church in the United States {{Michigan-geo-stub