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LEWIS 1). VON SCH W EIN1TZ. 
the age of twenty-one he became Count of Berthelsdorf 
in Lusatia by purchasing the estate appendant to that 
title and soon after established there the village of Herrn- 
hut whence the Moravians are sometimes called Herrn- 
hutters . In prosecution of his favourite scheme, he, in 
connexion with his new colony, many of whom were na¬ 
tives of Moravia, commenced the sending of missionaries 
to instruct the heathen; and at the end of nine years, 
though their numbers did not, when they first made the 
attempt, exceed 600, had actually formed establishments 
in Greenland, St. Thomas, St. Croix, Surinam, Rio de 
Berbice, among the Indians of North America, and the 
Negroes of Carolina, in Lapland, Tartary, Algiers, Gui¬ 
nea, in the Island of Ceylon and at the Cape of Good Hope. 
In his ardour for attaining this favourite object, Zinzen- 
dorf made various journies through Germany, Denmark, 
Switzerland, Holland, England and America. In 1742 
he held frequent religious discourses at Germantown, in 
this vicinity, and in the same year, in a Latin speech 
delivered in Philadelphia, formally renounced his title 
of Count, resumed his original family name of Von Thum- 
steen, and became familiarly known to the Quakers of 
that period under the designation of “friend Lewis.” 
It was under his immediate agency that the colony at 
Bethlehem was founded. He did not, however, attain 
all his successes without undergoing both in Europe and 
America several bitter persecutions: but these probably 
served, as usual, only to bind his followers in a firmer union, 
and more effectually to insure their prosperity. After 
having established his plan in all the four quarters of the 
