A Brief History of Tuscarawas County, Ohio

46 victim of the massacre. His father afterward became a missionary among the slaves of Jamaica. Gottlob was assigned duty at New Schoenbrunn in 1780; was carried into captivity with the Christian Indians, and died at Fairfield, Canada, Jan. 4. 1800. Michael Jung was born in Engoldsheim, Alsace, Germany, Jan. 5. 1743; emigrated to America in 1751; joined the Moravians, and in 1780, was sent to the mission at Salem. He labored among the Indians as a missionary until 1813, when he retired to Litiz, Pa., where he died Dec. 13, 1826. Benjamin Mortimer, an Englishman, came as an assistant to Zeisberger when he returned with the Indians in 1798, and remained at Goshen until 1809. He then became pastor of a Moravian church in New York City, where he died Nov. 10, 1834. John Joachim Hagan became one of the missionaries at Goshen in 1804. We were not able to obtain a record of his birth and death. The First White Child Born in Ohio.—To Gnadenhutten belongs the honor of having been the birthplace of the first white child

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