movarian & pequod

[Terrance]

 "Pequod, you will no doubt remember, was the name of a celebrated
Indian tribe of Massachusetts Indians, now extinct as the ancient
Medes."  

		--Melville

http://gfisher.org/ch_2__overkill.htm


Less than half of the 3,000 Pequot alive in 1637 survived the war. Under
the peace signed at Hartford in September, 1638, the Pequot were
dismembered

http://www.dickshovel.com/peq.html



In spite of all the differences, the undoubted relationship to
certain branches of German Pietism is shown above all by the
fact that the method was used primarily to bring about the
emotional act of conversion. And the emphasis on feeling, in
Wesley awakened by Moravian and Lutheran influences, led
Methodism, which from the beginning saw its mission among
the masses, to take on a strongly emotional character,
especially in America. 

--Max Weber


In the midst of Pontiac's Rebellion, on December 14, 1763, a mob 
from Paxton, Pennsylvania, raided a tribe of peaceful Conestoga 
Indians, setting fire to their village and killing six. The mob's
purpose  was to seek revenge against all Indians, whether or not they
were  allied with Pontiac. Fourteen survivors fled to Lancaster, where
they 
were placed in protective custody. On December 27, the Paxton Mob 
stormed the jail and massacred the rest. Benjamin Franklin 
condemned the act an, fearing genocide, brought several hundred 
Moravian Indians to safety in Philadelphia. The Paxton Mob 
descended on the city, only to be turned back by thousands of 
Philadelphians who were waiting for them at the courthouse (shown 
here). The mob returned to Paxton; in spite of the outrage they 
caused, charges were never brought against them.



http://www.csulb.edu/projects/ais/nae/chapter_1/001_002_1.51.txt



The 1782 Volunteer Militia from Washington County, Pa
And their Moravian Indian victims
By George C. Williston.

http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gwilli824/moravian.html

The Moravian Church traces its origins to followers of John Hus, the
Bohemian martyr who
was burned at the stake in 1415, and dates its formal beginning from
1457, when one group of the Hussites took the Latin name of Unitas
Fratrum, or Unity of the Brethren*.
Persecuted for many years in central Europe, in the 17th century they
were reduced to
meeting in secret and handing down their faith to their children as part
of the family
tradition.

http://users.erols.com/fmoran/morav.html

http://www.communicator.com/indianpa.html