H his return march he passed up the Tuscarawas to his provision stockade, then returning to Ft. Pitt by way of Sandy valley and Yellow Creek. This was the first armed expedition that ever entered the Tuscarawas valley. In the entire campaign but one man was lost, a soldier who was killed at the Muskingum. Moravian Missionaries. Earliest among the Moravian missionaries to visit the Indians of the Tuscarawas, came Christian Frederick Post. He was born at Conitz, Prussia,, in 1710, came to America in 1742, and from 1743 to 1749 labored as a missionary among the Moravian Indians in Connecticut and New York. In 1761 he visited the Delawares at Tuscarawa (Bolivar) to instruct them in the doctrines of Christianity. He erected a cabin on the north bank of the Tuscarawas about- a. mile above Bolivar, in what is now Bethlehem township, Stark Co. This was the first house built by white men in Ohio-, except a few cabins that had been put up by traders and French Jesuits. Having performed the business entrusted to him. he returned to Bethlehem, Pa. Being impressed with the belief that he could convert the red men to
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