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Moravian Brethren

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plural noun

  1. members of the Moravian Church.


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The Moravian Brethren supplied them with food; and Fox, the commissary, with great humanity, distributed blankets among them.

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All the members of our party had now joined, and, though our baggage was not yet arrived from Boston, I resolved, in order to make myself acquainted with the interior of Pennsylvania, to take up my abode in the settlement of the Moravian Brethren at Bethlehem.

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In order to make myself acquainted with Nazareth, the other 85 settlement of the Moravian brethren, I drove there in company of the Rev. Mr. Seidel.

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This valley is wooded, has many settlements, and is well known from the destruction of Gnadenh�tten, a small establishment, founded there by the Moravian Brethren.

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In 1766, fourteen Moravian Brethren were settled on Nangkauri, with the view of extending the influence of the Danish East India Company.

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