. History of Northampton County [Pennsylvania] and the grand valley of the Lehigh under supervision and revision of William J. Heller, assisted by an advisory board of died atBethlehem, April 5, 1776. Anthony Seiffert was a native of Thrulichen, Bohemia, emigrated toHerrnhut, thence to Georgia in 1735, and came to Pennsylvania in was the first Moravian clergyman ordained in America, at Savannah,Georgia, February 28, 1736. In 1745 he returned to Europe, where helabored in England, Ireland and Holland, dying in the latter country onJune 19, 1785. David and Anna Zeisberger were
. History of Northampton County [Pennsylvania] and the grand valley of the Lehigh under supervision and revision of William J. Heller, assisted by an advisory board of died atBethlehem, April 5, 1776. Anthony Seiffert was a native of Thrulichen, Bohemia, emigrated toHerrnhut, thence to Georgia in 1735, and came to Pennsylvania in was the first Moravian clergyman ordained in America, at Savannah,Georgia, February 28, 1736. In 1745 he returned to Europe, where helabored in England, Ireland and Holland, dying in the latter country onJune 19, 1785. David and Anna Zeisberger were from Zauchtenthal, Moravia, whence,in 1726, they fled to Herrnhut, Saxony. They emigrated to Georgia inT736, and came to Pennsylvania in 1740. They both died in Bethlehem, theformer August 25, 1744, and the latter February 23, 1748. Their son David,born at Zauchtenthal, April 11, 1721, became the most distinguished mis-sionary of the Moravian church among the Indians, to whose conversionhe devoted more than sixty years of his life, laboring in New York, Penn-sylvania, Ohio, Michigan and Canada. He died at Goshen, Ohio, November7, 1808. THE NEW YORKPUBLIC LIBIIAKY ASTOIK. •IRST HOLSK AT IlKTHLEHEMErtctc-d 1741 9 t i
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