15 sive, retiring, rather taciturn, albeit, when drawn out. communicative and a good conversationalist. He was in extensive correspondence with many men of letters, by whom he was held in great esteem. He was married in July, 1780, to Miss Sarah Ohne- berg who had been sent as a teacher to the mission. This was the first wedding of a white couple in Ohio. Scboenbrunn.—In the spring of 1771 Zeis- berger visited Gekelemupechunk, capital of the Delawares in the Tuscarawas valley, for the purpose of making arrangements for the establishing of a mission. While among the Indians on this trip he preached a sermon to them. The small-pox was raging among them at this time. Early in 1772, with a number of Christian Indians he again visited the Delawares and asked permission to settle in the valley and to establish a mission. He was received with great favor and was the guest of Nelawotwes the chief of the nation, who granted him land wherein to establish his mission. The reason the Indians were so pleased with his coming was because the scourge of small-pox had disappeared from
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