 In 1761 Moravian missionaries set out from Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, to set up a mission in the Tuscarawas Valley.Christian Frederick Post, David Zeisberger, and John Heckewelder met with Chief Netawatwees of the western Delaware Indians, also known as the "Lenape".He invited them to the tribal village he had founded, Gekelemukpechunk (present-day Newcomerstown, Ohio).