23 town seems to have been the rendezevous for noted white men as well as for the Indians. There at times met McKee. Anderson and Simon Girty and we notice the fact that while Zeisberger and Heckewelder at Schoenbrunn and Gnadenhutten were civilizing the Indians, the other Indians at New Comerstown wrere making savages of the white men. McKee. Anderson and Girty were of Irish descent and came to Ohio from the Susquehanna where their parents had settled at an early day. Monsey Conspiracy at Schoenbrunn.—The lives of the missionaries at Schoenbrunn were not of ease and luxury by any means. On the other hand, they were continuous rounds of hardship and self-sacrifice. One cause of trouble at the missions was want of courage, jealousy and envy among the missionaries. There is not a line to be found among the archives of Ihe missions to indicate that Zeisberger’s character was tainted with the spirit of envy or jealousy toward his brethren, or that he lacked courage in emergencies. There is no doubt, however that he was hated by some of the brethren in secret, for he held great influence with the different
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