During the American Revolution, British allied Indians of the Ohio Country ruthlessly attacked white settlements and lone settlers in the frontier areas of western Pennsylvania, what is now West Virginia and Kentucky. German Moravian missionaries, in an attempt to convert the heathen Indians to Christianity founded a village near the Tuscarawas River in Eastern Ohio which they named Gnadenhutten (German for "huts of grace". ) Here dwelt Indians from...
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