The group arrived in at the site in July 1782.
Zeisberger and his group, after assuaging De Peyster's suspicions were granted a place by the local Ojibwe to establish a mission a few miles north of Detroit on what was then known as the Huron River. David Zeisberger and his group were summoned to Detroit by the British Major De Peyster, who suspected the Moravians of favoring the Americans in the American Revolutionary War. Following the Gnadenhütten massacre in March 1782, the Rev. Clemens.įrederick was situated at the location of the New Gnadenhuetten Moravian mission, which is now just west of Mt.
It was located on an oxbow of the Clinton River southwest of present-day Mt. Not to be confused with Frederic, Michigan.įrederick, Michigan, also known as Casino, was a community in Clinton Charter Township of Macomb County, Michigan in the U.S.