The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography . ly, or granting that the Virginia bond-slave William may be theright party, and that this Parcell of Land may indicate a connection,and that the ancestor may, as so many persons did, have passed overfrom Virginia to Barbadoes, and, being .a merchant, have had dealingswith Jno. Edmonson, possibly I may find some clue to guide me inopening the matter to the learned men of your society. Duck Creeke,Greenfield, Wappin, and Kent County (now in Delaware, originally inthe Province of Pennsylvania) must be known to your readers, and itmaybe that old
The Pennsylvania magazine of history and biography . ly, or granting that the Virginia bond-slave William may be theright party, and that this Parcell of Land may indicate a connection,and that the ancestor may, as so many persons did, have passed overfrom Virginia to Barbadoes, and, being .a merchant, have had dealingswith Jno. Edmonson, possibly I may find some clue to guide me inopening the matter to the learned men of your society. Duck Creeke,Greenfield, Wappin, and Kent County (now in Delaware, originally inthe Province of Pennsylvania) must be known to your readers, and itmaybe that old deeds or transfers may throw light on the rather obscurequestion. Hugh Hall bought the land, and still he may be spoken of asa resident, or as residing in Barbadoes. If a resident, then I can lookto the chance of discovering his father there or in Virginia. Informa-tion is earnestlv desired. 157 Montague St., Brooklyn, N. Y. Charles H. Hall. V. S.~Address Mrs. Jesse E. Smith, 226 South Twenty-first Street,Philadelphia. MM ,$mm ¥i ? % IWM \ MS 1. Jf§p THE PENNSYLVANIA MAGAZINE OF HISTORY AND BIOGRAPHY. Yol. XII. 1888. No. 4. BETHLEHEM DUKItfG- THE KEVOLUTION. Extracts from the Diaries in the Moravian Archives atBethlehem, Pennsylvania. BY JOHN W. JORDAN. [The following extracts from the diaries of the Moravian congrega-tion at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1775-1782, have been selected for thevaluable data they contain relating to the struggle for American Inde-pendence. The Bev. John Ettwein, whose name frequently appears,was a distinguished clergyman and the accredited agent of his church inthe negotiations with Congress, and with the Assembly, through thetroubles arising from the test acts. What the position of that churchwas during the war, may best be ascertained from their petition to Con-gress, from which we quote: Encouraged by that Act [Act of Parliament, 1749, exempting theMoravians from military service and the taking of oaths in the Colonies],and the glorious liberty i
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