<i>John Ettwein, 1754</i>.  Artwork by <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Valentine_Haidt" class="extiw" title="en:John Valentine Haidt">John Valentine Haidt</a>. Portrait of Bishop John Ettwein. John Ettwein (1721-1802) and his wife came to America in 1754. Their portraits were painted by a fellow traveler, John Valentine Haidt, supposedly during the voyages.
<p>In 1772, <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://bdhp.moravian.edu/personal_papers/memoirs/jettwein/jettwein.html">John Ettwein</a> and his group of some 200 <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lenape" class="extiw" title="en:Lenape">Lenape</a> and <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mohican" class="extiw" title="en:Mohican">Mohican</a> <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian" class="extiw" title="en:Christian">Christians</a> traveled west along <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Shamokin_Path" class="extiw" title="en:Great Shamokin Path">The Great Shamokin Path</a> from their village of Friedenshütten (<i>Cabins of Peace</i>) near modern <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyalusing,_Pennsylvania" class="extiw" title="en:Wyalusing, Pennsylvania">Wyalusing</a> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Susquehanna_River" class="extiw" title="en:Susquehanna River">North Branch Susquehanna River</a> to their new village of <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://trailofhopeblog.com/2011/04/878/">Friedensstadt (<i>City of Peace</i>)</a> on the <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beaver_River_(Pennsylvania)" class="extiw" title="en:Beaver River (Pennsylvania)">Beaver River</a> in southwestern Pennsylvania.
During the Revolutionary War, Ettwein was the chief spokesman to the Continental Congress and other officials on behalf of the Moravians in Pennsylvania. He was consecrated a Bishop in 1784, and became head of the governing board of the Moravian Church in America. Oil on canvas, 25 in. x 17.5 in.  <a rel="nofollow" class="external text" href="http://www.moravianhistoricalsociety.org/">Moravian Historical Society</a>, <a href="https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazareth,_Pennsylvania" class="extiw" title="en:Nazareth, Pennsylvania">Nazareth</a>.<br></p>
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John Valentine Haidt<br></div>
Moravian Historical Society, Nazareth, Pennsylvania.