14 and returned to Bethlehem, Pa. Here he engaged in literary pursuits until his death, which occurred Jan. 21, 1823. The best known and most important of his published works are ‘‘Narrative of the Mission of the United Brethren among the Delaware and Mohegan Indians, ” and “History, Manners and Customs of the Indian Nations who once Inhabited Pennsylvania and the neighboring States. ’’ In summing up his character, HoWe’s History of Ohio says of him : “His life was one of great activity, industry and usefulness. It was a life of vicissitudes, of perils, and of wild romantic adventure. How it abounded in hardships, privations and self-sacrificing- devotion to the interest of the barbarians of the western wilderness! It would, indeed, be difficult to over-estimate the importance or value of the labors of Rev. Heckewelder in ' the various characters of philanthropist, philosopher, pioneer, teacher, embassador, author and Christian missionary. He was a gentlemen of courteous and easy manners, of frankness, affability, veracity; without affectation or dissimulation, meek, cheerful, unassuming, humble, unpretentious unobtru
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