Cultures at the Susquehanna Confluence The Diaries of the Moravian Mission to the Iroquois Confederacy, 1745–1755 (Pietist, Moravian, and Anabaptist Studies)

Located at the confluence of the north and west branches of the Susquehanna River, Shamokin was a significant historical settlement in the region that became Pennsylvania. By the time the Moravians arrived to set up a mission in the 1740s, Shamokin had been a site of intertribal commerce and refuge for the Native peoples of Pennsylvania for several centuries. It served first as a Susquehannock, then a Shawnee, and then a primarily Lenape settlement and trading post, overseen by the Oneida leader and diplomat Shikellamy.Cultures at the Susquehanna Confluence is an annotated translation of the diaries documenting the Moravian mission to the area. Unlike other missions of the time, the Moravians at Shamokin integrated their work and daily life into the diverse cultures they encountered, demonstrating an unusual compromise between the Church's missionary impetus and the needs of the Six Nations of the Iroquois. The diaries counter the dominant vision of the area around Shamokin as a sinister place, revealing instead a nexus of vibrant cultural exchange where women and men speaking Lenape, Mohican, English, and German collaborated in the business of survival at a pivotal time.The Shamokin diaries, which until now existed only in manuscript form in difficult-to-read German script in the Moravian Archives in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, allow today's readers to experience the Susquehanna confluence and the rich intercultural exchanges that took place there between Europeans and Native Americans. COVER Front Copyright Page Table of contents acknowledgments introduction Notes to Introduction Chapter 1: September 13–November 10, 1745 Notes to Section 1 Chapter 2: May 26–June 28, 1747 Notes to Section 2 Chapter 3: june 29–August 2, 1747 Notes to Section 3 Chapter 4: September 29–December 31, 1747 Notes to Section 4 Chapter 5: January 4–April 18, 1748 Notes to Section 5 Chapter 6: April 18–June 28, 1748 Notes to Section 6 Chapter 7: November 30, 1748– January 31, 1749 Notes to Section 7 Chapter 8: April 3–July 26, 1749 Notes to Section 8 Chapter 9: January 8–March 5, 1750 Notes to Section 9 Chapter 10: April 14–June 2, 1753 Notes to Section 10 Chapter 11: June 4–July 31, 1753 Notes to Section 11 Chapter 12: January 11–July 2, 1754 Notes to Section 12 Chapter 13: December 19–25, 1754 Notes to Section 13 Chapter 14: April 1–May 31, 1755 Notes to Section 14 Chapter 15: June 1–July 31, 1755 Notes to Section 15 Chapter 16: August 1–September 30, 1755 Notes to Section 16 Chapter 17: September–October 1755 Notes to Section 17 notes bibliography index