11 fives whom the savages had agreed to liberate. McKee returned without any prisoners and Post saved himself by flight. This first attempt at establishing a mission among the Indians was a failure. Post married an Indian woman named Rachel who died in 1747, and two years later married another Indian woman named Agnes. After her death in 1751, he married a white woman. It is said that on account of his Indian marriages he did not secure the full co-operation of the Moravian authorities. After leaving Ohio in 1762, Post proceeded to establish a mission among the Mosquito Indians on the Bay of Honduras, Central America. He afterward united with the Protestant Episcopal Church and died at Germantown, Pa., April 29, 1785. Schoenbrunn, Salem and Gnadenhutten.— The next attempt at establishing a Christian mission within the limits of our county, was made in 1772 by Daniel Zeisberger and his illustrous co-laborer, John Heckewelder. The names of these men are so closely connected, that in writing the history of one we also give the main portion of that of the other.
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