Diaries, conference minutes, church registers, membership catalogues, directories and a pastor’s record book from the Philadelphia Moravian congregation, turned into maps, timelines and searchable tables. The 1740s volumes show a small English flock tied by constant traffic to Bethlehem, New York and London. The registers follow its families through epidemics and four church buildings to the 1870s.
Where did the Philadelphia preachers go, how often, and did their preaching places become congregations? Every journey to a country station in the diaries and conference minutes was read again and coded: who went, where, what they did there, and what the diarists say about societies, schools, meetinghouses and resident workers. Each station's later history comes from published histories.
Each column is one surviving list of the congregation, divided into the Moravian “choirs” by marital state, sex and age. Click a column to read the list.