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for this time of the year. Along with gardening, there's grilling, and getting
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G-Pennsylvania Indian Villages, Towns and
Settlements
A complete listing of all the Indian
villages, towns and settlements as listed in Handbook of Americans North of
Mexico.
Gachwechnagechga ('islanders.' Hewitt). The name
applied to the Lehigh Indians formerly on Lehigh r., Pa.; so called, according
to Pyrlaeus, after the island they occupied.
Gnadenhuetten (German: huts of grace). The name of
several mission villages (5, according to Brinton) established at different
periods among the Mahican, Munsee, and Delawares by the Moravian missionaries.
The first was settled in 1746 by Moravian Mahican from Shecomeco and Scaticook
on the N. side of Mahoning cr., near its junction with the Lehigh, about the
present Lehighton, Carbon co., Pa. In 1754 it was abandoned for a new village,
called New Gnadenhuetten, on the site of Weissport, Carbon co., Pa. Delawares
and Mahican occupied the village together. Soon after removing here the old
village was burned by hostile Indians in 1755, and the new place was for a time
deserted. In 1763 the Indians abandoned the settlement for a short time on
account of the troubles arising from Pontiac s war. The last and best known
village of the name was established on the Muskingum, about the site of the
present Gnadenhuetten, Tuscarawas co., Ohio, in 1772. Toward the close of the
Revolution the inhabit ants were removed to Sandusky by the hostile Indians, and
on returning to gather their corn were massacred by the Americans in 1782.
Consult Heckewelder, Narr., 1820; Howells, Three Villages, 1884;
Loskiel, Hist, Miss. United Brethren, 1794. (J. M.)
Goshgoshunk ('hogplace'. Hewitt). A large settlement of
the Munsee and Delawares, with perhaps some Seneca, consisting of 3 villages, on
Allegheny r. in 1767, about the upper part of Venango co., Pa. It was visited by
the missionary Zeisberger in the year named, and in 1768 it be came the seat of
a Moravian mission.
Great Island Village. A former settlement, probably of
the Delawares, on the Susquehanna opposite the present Lock Haven, Clinton co.,
Pa. Royce in 18th Rep. B. A. E., Pa. map, 1899.
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Handbook of American Indians North of Mexico, Frederick Webb Hodge, 1906
