Count Zinzendorf - And the Moravian and Indian Occupancy of the Wyoming Valley, (Pa);, 1742-1763 #220887

The Moravians settled in what was then called the Forks of the Delaware (the present Lehigh being then considered a branch Of the Delaware), and founded Bethlehem and Nazareth. Bethlehem received its name on Christmas Eve, 1741, at the hands of the distinguished Moravian leader, Count Nicholas Louis von Zinzendorf,2 then on a visit to America from Saxony. The pious nobleman was at this time forty-two years of age. Bethlehem has ever Since been the seat of the Moravian Church in America. The histories say that Count Zinzendorf was the first white man to look upon Wyoming, but this is an error. The region had been penetrated by traders and probably by French explorers more than a century earlier.