David Zeisberger

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Other Names: None

Assumed Gender: Male

Birth Date: 1721

Birth Place: Unknown

Death Date: 1808

Death Place: Unknown

Affiliations: Moravians

Notes: Moravian clergyman and missionary among the Native Americans in the Thirteen Colonies. Established communities of Munsee converts in the valley of the Muskingum River in Ohio, and for a time, near modern-day Amherstburg, Ontario. Recipient of epistle from Jacob Lindley, sent by Sam White, John Kilbuck, etc (1793).

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