The Shamokin Diaries 1745-1755

The Moravian Mission to the Iroquois

  • Contextual materials
    • Moravians and Native Americans at the Confluence
    • Native Americans in Shamokin c.1748 by David Minderhout, Ph.D.
    • Moravian Artisans and their Wives in the Colonial Pennsylvanian Backcountry Katherine Faull, Bucknell University
  • Texts
    • The German Text
    • The Translated English Text
      • Brother Martin Mack’s Diary: September 13, 1745–November 10, 1745
      • Brother Hagen’s Diary, May 26, 1747- June 27, 1747
      • Brother Martin Mack’s Diary, September 29, 1747–December 31, 1747
      • Brother Joseph Powell’s Diary, January 4, 1748 — April 18, 1748
      • Brother Martin Mack’s Short Report of the Heidenpaß in Shamokin, April 18, 1748–June 19, 1748
      • Cammerhof’s Narrative of a Journey to Shamokin, in the winter of 1748 (published source)
      • Brother David Zeisberger’s Account of the Shamokin Mission, November 30, 1748-January 31, 1749
      • Brother Rauch’s Diary of the Shamokin Mission, February 1, 1749-April 2, 1749
      • Brother Zeisberger’s Diary of the Shamokin Mission, March 4, 1749-July 26, 1749
      • Brother Zeisberger’s Diary of the Shamokin Mission, January 8,1750-March 05, 1750
      • Brother Grube’s Diary of the Shamokin Mission, April 14, 1753-June 04, 1753
      • Brother Grube’s Diary of his trip to Quenischachachque, June 4, 1753-June 10,1753
      • Grube, Bernard A. “A Missionary’s Tour to Shamokin and the West Branch of the Susquehanna, 1753.” (Published 1915)
      • Brother Kliest’s Diary of the Shamokin mission, January 11, 1754-July 02, 1754
      • Brothers Kliest and Loesch’s Diary, December 19, 1754-December 25, 1754
      • Brother Rösler’s Diary–April 1, 1755-September 30, 1755
      • Brother Rösler’s account of his and Brother Philip Wesa’s and Marcus Kiefer’s final stay in Shamokin and their merciful preservation in the war of the savages against Pennsylvania. In the year 1755.
    • Mack Diary-English Original
  • 18th-Century Moravian Mapping
  • Index of Persons
  • Index of Places
  • Chronicle
You are here: Home / Texts / The Translated English Text

The Translated English Text

  1. Mack Diary September 13 1745–November 10, 1745
  2. Brother Hagen’s Diary 26 May 1747- 27 June 1747
  3. Martin Mack’s Diary September 29, 1747–December 31, 1747
  4. Joseph Powell’s Diary January 4, 1748 — April 18, 1748
  5. Mack and Zeisberger’s Short Report of the Heidenpaß in Shamokin April 18, 1748–June 19, 1748
  6. Zeisberger’s Account of the Shamokin Mission 11/30/48-01/31/49
  7. Rauch’s Diary of the Shamokin Mission 02/01/49-04/02/49
  8. Zeisberger’s Diary of the Shamokin Mission 03/04/1749-07/26/1749
  9. (Zeisberger’s) Diary of the Shamokin Mission 01/08/1750-03/05/1750
  10. Grube’s Diary of the Shamokin Mission 04/14/1753-06/04/1753
  11. Grube’s Diary of his trip to Quenischachachque 6/4/1753-6/10/1753
  12. Grube’s Diary 6/12/1753-7/31/1753
  13. Kliest’s Diary of the Shamokin mission 01/11/1754-07/02/1754
  14. Kliest and Loesch’s Diary 12/19/1754-12/25/1754
  15. Brother Rösler’s Diary–4/1/1755-9/30/1755
  16. Brother Rösler’s account of his and Brother Philip Wesa’s and Marcus Kiefer’s final stay in Shamokin and their merciful preservation in the war of the savages against Pennsylvania. In the year 1755.

Search

Featured Page–People

Index of Persons

About the Author

Dr. Katherine Faull is Professor of German and Humanities at Bucknell University, Lewisburg, PA. Author and editor of six book-length publications, over 40 peer-reviewed articles and chapters, she was educated at King's College, London (BA Hons, German/Russian) and Princeton University (Germanic Languages and Literatures), and is a Life Member of Clare Hall, University of Cambridge. The recipient of three major grant awards from the National Endowment for the Humanities, she has published extensively on questions of gender, race, and autobiography in the Moravian Church in North America in the colonial period. She serves on the editorial board of the Journal of Moravian History, the book series, Anabaptist and Pietist Studies with the Pennsylvania State University Press, and is also a member of the Board of Directors of the Moravian Archives, Bethlehem, PA. Her current international collaborative DH project, Moravian Lives, focuses on the digital exploration of Moravian memoirs (moravian.bucknell.edu) and brings together top international scholars in the field of Pietism with graduate and undergraduate students in the exploration of 18th-century life writing, gender, race, and the Moravian world. Katie has also published scholarly articles on digital pedagogy at a liberal arts institution, DH and religious history, and digital visualization in the humanities.
For more, go to http://www.katiefaull.com

View My Blog Posts

Return to top of page

Copyright © 2022 · Luscious Child Theme on Genesis Framework · WordPress · Log in