The Wachovia Settlement
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Description: (North Carolina, USA) Brief community history, with links to family records.
The Moravian Church traces its origins to followers of John Hus, the Bohemian martyr who was burned at the stake in 1415, and dates its formal beginning from 1457, when one group of the Hussites took the Latin name of Unitas Fratrum, or Unity of the Brethren*. Persecuted for many years in central Europe, in the 17th century they were reduced to meeting in secret and handing down their faith to their children as part of the family tradition. Under the influence of Christian David, and inspired by the pietist movement, a group of families moved from Moravia to Saxony in 1722, where they found refuge on the estate of a young Lutheran nobleman, Count Nicholas von Zinzendorf, and founded a religious village which they named Herrnhut ("protected by the Lord"). The church was formally reorganized there in 1727. In 1735 an American settlement and mission to the Indians was begun in Georgia, but was abandoned after five years because of irreconcilable differences with the local government. Settlements in northeastern America were begun in 1740, and the congregation town of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, was founded in 1742. It remains the church headquarters today. In the 1740s and 1750s the church brought several shiploads of settlers to Bethlehem and the other congregational communities, the so-called "Sea Congregations", who assembled in Europe and traveled together to America.
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| Page title: | The Moravians |
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| IP-address: | 216.164.45.50 |
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| NS | Name Server: AUTH1.DNS.RCN.NET Name Server: AUTH2.DNS.RCN.NET Name Server: AUTH3.DNS.RCN.NET Name Server: AUTH4.DNS.RCN.NET |
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| Date | Creation Date: 19-mar-2002 Expiration Date: 19-mar-2018 |