308 HISTORY OF 



CHAPTI^R V. 



Moravian community at Litiz — Zinzendorf in Lancaster— A pT>licat;on to 

 the conference at Bethlehem — Commencement of Litiz — Parsonage 

 built— School House lenioved — Rev. B. A. Grube — Present condition, or 



state of Litiz; Improvements; Church, and consecration of it, &c List 



of the names of Pastors — Schools and names of Teachers — Brother and 

 Sister Houses — The grave yard — The spring — Population, mechanics, &c. 



The Moravians, those who embraced the views of 

 Count Zinzenclarf, of whom a passing notice has been 

 given in a preceding page, commenced the formation of 

 a commmiity, in this county, about the year 1755 or 56 ^ 

 at Litiz, eight miles north of the city, of which we 

 shall give a detailed account. The subject is interesting.* 



To give a full account of tliis village, and the first 

 settlement of tlie Moravians in Lancaster county, we 

 shall begin with the year 1743. It happened, in that 

 year, that Count Zinzendorf, the patron of the renewed 

 church of the United Brethren or Moravians, who being 

 persecuted in Saxony, by such as disliked his attempts to 

 form Christian communities, which were not to be 

 governed by the established church government of that 

 Kingdom, directed his attention and Christian eye to 

 Pennsylvania, where, at a previous period, a great num- 

 ber of German Separatists had emigrated ; accordingly, 

 he visited Pennsylvania, and believing that his visit 

 might be rendered more profitable, if he could succeed 

 in uniting many of these emigrated Christians, who 

 differeu in some particular points, he set out on his tour 

 through Pennsylvania, and whenever he had an appor- 



*This article has been furnished by a member of the Mora- 

 vian Society of Litiz. 



