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Gnadenhuetten (German: `huts of grace'). The name of several mission villages (5, according to Brinton) established at different periods among the Mahican, Munsee, and Delaware by the Moravian missionaries. The first was settled in 1746 by Moravian Mahican from Shecomeco, and Scaticook on the north side of Mahoning creek, near its junction with the Lehigh, about the present Lehighton, Carbon county, Pa. In 1754 it was abandoned for a new village, called New Gnadenhuetten, on the site of Weissport, Carbon county, Pa.
     Delaware 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 a 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 county, Ohio, in 1772. Toward the close of the Revolution the inhabitants 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.