Heart to Hearth Cookery

John Gottlieb Ernestus Heckewelder, 1743-1823

John Heckewelder was born in England in 1743 and came to Pennsylvania with his Moravian family in 1754,  His goal was to be a Moravian evangelist and in 1762 he achieved this goal when he was asked to assist Christopher Frederick Post and David Zeisberger (Moravian missionaries) with the Christian Delaware Indians located in Western Pennsylvania.  John’s detailed descriptions of some of the food preparation techniques of the Delaware are invaluable for the interpretation of Lenape foodways.  Wanishi (thank-you) John!

(The portrait of John Heckewelder was painted by Gustav Anton von Senckendorff, 1823 and is in the collection of the American Philosophical Society)

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