47 born in Ohio. Bishop de Schwenntz in his “Life of David Zeisberger", published ill 1870, says: “A few weeks befqre the arrival of Schmick there had been born in the midst of this mission family, on the 4th of July. 1773, at Gnadenhutten. the first white child in the present State of Ohio. Mrs. Maria Agnes Roth was his mother, and he received in baptism administered by Zeisberger on the 5th of July the name of John Lewis Roth, This interesting fact is established by the official diary of Gnadenhutten (in the archives of the Moravian church) preserved at Bethlehem, Pa., which says: “July 4. 1772—To day God gave Brother and Sister Roth a young son. He was baptized into the death of Jesus, and named John Lewis, on the 5th inst. by Brother David Zeisberger, who together with Brother Jungman and his wife, came here this morning." John Lewis Roth was taken to Pennsyh vania when not quite one year of age. He educated himself at Bethlehem, and later removed to Bath in the same state, where he died in 1841. There is. however, another claimant to these honors, whose claim has beqn more generally
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