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Expulsion and Return to the Villages
- When
- September 1781 – February 1782
- Where
- Moravian missionary villages in the Ohio Country
- Part of
- Gnadenhutten Massacre
British-allied warriors expelled the Moravian converts in 1781; in February 1782 over 150 were allowed back to harvest crops.
In September 1781, British-allied Native Americans, primarily Wyandot and Lenape, forced the Christian Native Americans and missionaries out of the Moravian villages. In February 1782, more than 150 were allowed to return to their old villages—Gnadenhutten, Salem, and Shoenbrunn—to harvest the crops and collect stored food they had been forced to leave behind.
Sources
- Gnadenhutten massacre Wikipedia, revision of 2026-09-25
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