David Heckewelder

David Heckewelder

• BIRTH 25 MAY 1711 • Suchdol, Moravia, Czech Republic
• DEATH 11 SEPTEMBER 1760 • St. Croix
• Son of George Heckewaelder
• Wife: Christine "Rosina" Richter
• Children: Anna Maria Heckewaelder, David Heckewelder, Rev. Johann Gottlieb Ernst Haeckenwaelder, Christian Renatus Heckewaelder

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https://journals.psu.edu/wph/article/download/2480/2313

... His father, David, whose name was written Heckenwaelder, was one of the Moravian exiles who came to Herrnhut, the refuge village founded by Count Zinzendorf on his estate Bevthelsdorf, Saxony. ... This was the religious background of David Heckewelder, John's father who was sent as a missionary to England where his son was born. The son must indeed have absorbed much of the missionary spirit. John Heckewelder was eleven years old when he landed with his par- ents at New York. He walked withBishop David Nitschman to Beth- lehem, a then 15 year old mission, while others waited for wagons. Barring a brief interim in the Danish West Indies with his missionary parents, who died there, he grew up in the vicinity of what is presently Nazareth and Bethlehem. ...

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REINCKE, ABRAHAM. "A Register of Members of the Moravian Church...1727-1754." Translated by W.C. Reichel. In Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, vol. 1 (1876), pp. 283-426.

• Name: David Heckewelder
• Arrival year: 1754
• Arrival Place: Pennsylvania
• Primary Immigrant: Heckewelder, David
• Family Members: Wife Regina; Son Christian; Daughter Ann Mary; Son David; Son John
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Birth seen as May 25, 1723, which seems an error.

• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/details/MMTH-YVT
• https://www.wikitree.com/wiki/Heckewelder-3 cites
• Neisser, George, " A List of the Bohemian and Moravian Emigrants to Saxony," Transactions of the Moravian Historical Society, Vol.9, Parts 3 and 4.
• Updated from MyHeritage Family Trees via son Christian Renatus Heckewelder by SmartCopy: Nov 21 2015, 20:04:37 UTC
• Updated from FamilySearch Family Tree by SmartCopy: Nov 21 2015, 20:20:39 UTC
• https://www.familysearch.org/tree/person/sources/GQWL-C5R “ While there is no absolute certainty, it is inferred that Judith Kunz could be the first wife of Georg Heckewelder and the mother of David Heckewelder. Research set out in Chronik der Marktgemeinde Zauchtel a.d. Oder principally authored by Claus Mannsbart (2005) opines that Georg Heckewelder, son of Mathaeus Heckenwaelder, is the person who married Juditha Kunz, daughter of Michael Kunz on 14 April 1709. Juditha died in 1713 and this Georg married Anna Gebauer, daughter of Johann Gebauer on 14 January 1714.
• https://search.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?indiv=1&dbid=60146&h=10...
• https://www.ancestry.com/family-tree/person/tree/109562050/person/1...
• Heckewelder, John Gottlieb Ernestus (1743-1823) Pioneer in the North American Moravian Indian missions. “Born at Bedford, England, of a Moravian family, Heckewelder was educated in Moravian schools there and went to America with his family in 1754. He lived in the Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, Moravian community until 1762, when he accompanied Christian Frederick Post to Ohio on the first Moravian mission venture in the Northwest Territory. ....”
• https://explorepahistory.com/hmarker.php?markerId=1-A-22B
• https://www.academia.edu/16962550/The_Famed_Moravian_Missionary_Joh...