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<HTML> <HEAD> <TITLE>Early Moravian Settlers in NC</TITLE> </HEAD> <BODY BGCOLOR="#EBC79E"> <H3>Early Settlers in the Wachovia Community</H3> <IMG SRC="coff.gif"><B>The first volume of Records of the Moravians in North Carolina contains a chronological list of persons arriving in the Wachovia community between 1753 and 1770. We have expanded this into an <A HREF="sett1.html">annotated alphabetical list</A> of settlers, adding information from elsewhere in the Records, graveyard listings, and other sources. We still know relatively little about some of these people, however. Are they your ancestors? If you can supply additional information, please contact us!<P> <hr> <A NAME=1753> <CENTER>The First Company of 1753</CENTER><P> <B>A year after purchase of the Wachovia Tract, a group of 15 men came south to begin the first settlement. Their journey began on October 8, 1753, in Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, and the trip overland through Pennsylvania, Maryland and down the Shenandoah Valley of Virginia is described in fascinating detail in the Moravian Records [1:75-80]. The road was poor, food was scarce, and river crossings with their loaded wagon were very difficult. By early November the weather was cold and rainy or even snowy, and near the end they were delayed for two days, unable to cross the flooded Dan River just south of the Virginia-North Carolina border. They finally reached their destination on the evening of November 17th, taking shelter in a deserted cabin and celebrating their arrival with a Lovefeast (a shared simple meal with singing and prayer, a Moravian tradition). The wolves howled loudly outside.<P> The members of this group were carefully selected to provide the necessary combination of skills to create a new community from the wilderness. Eleven, all single men, were to be the permanent settlers, and four returned to Pennsylvania. Most had previously been residents of the Moravian agricultural center at Christiansbrunn, near Nazareth PA.<P> <A HREF="beroth.html#johannes">Johannes Beroth</A><P> <A HREF="sett2.html#feldhaus">Henrich Feldhausen</A><P> <A HREF="sett2.html#grube">Bernard Adam Grube</A><P> <A HREF="sett3.html#ingebret">Erich Ingebretsen</A><P> <A HREF="sett3.html#kalberlahn">Hans Martin Kalberlahn</A><P> <A HREF="sett3.html#lischer">Johannes Lischer</A><P> <A HREF="loesch.html#herman">Hermannus Loesch</A><P> <A HREF="loesch.html#jacob">Jacob Loesch</A><P> <A HREF="sett3.html#lung">Jacob Lung</A><P> <A HREF="sett4.html#merkley">Christopher Merkley</A><P> <A HREF="sett4.html#petersen1">Hans Petersen</A><P> <A HREF="sett4.html#pfeil">Friedrich Jacob Pfeil</A><P> Nathaniel Seidel, Gottlob Königsdorfer, and Joseph Haberland accompanied the initial party, but then returned to Pennsylvania.<P> <hr> <A NAME=1754> <CENTER>Arrivals in 1754</CENTER><P> Johannes Lischer had returned to Pennsylvania in 1753, but came back in April, 1754, accompanied by <A HREF="sett2.html#friis">Jacob Friis</A>.<P> Peter Boehler and Andreas Höger were visitors who arrived in September, 1754, but did not remain in NC.<P> A second group of single men arrived on October 26, 1754:<P> <A HREF="sett1.html#betz">Andreas Betz</A><P> <A HREF="sett1.html#christensen">Hans Christian Christensen</A><P> <A HREF="holder.html#george">George Holder</A><P> <A HREF="sett3.html#kapp">Jacob Kapp</A><P> <A HREF="sett4.html#nagel">Johannes Nagel</A><P> <A HREF="sett5.html#ranke1">Johannes Ranke</A><P> <A HREF="sett5.html#schmid3">George Schmid</A><P> <A HREF="sett6.html#vander">Jacobus van der Merk</A><P> <hr> <A HREF="settlers2.html">Continue to Next Page</A><P> <A HREF="morav.html">Return to the Moravian History Page</A><P> <A HREF="index.html">Return to the Jarvis Family Home Page</A></B><P> �, 2001-2007 <BR> Faye Jarvis Moran and Elizabeth H. Harris<BR> [email protected], [email protected]<P> </BODY> </HTML>