Christian Frederick Post
Christian Frederick Post (an anglicanization of Christian Friedrich Post) (1710
Biography
He came to Pennsylvania in 1742, and worked at forming groups of German heritage into a church federation, but was unsuited to the task. His facility in learning the native languages suited him better to organizing native groups.[1] Between 1743 and 1749 was a missionary to the Moravian Indians in Province of New York and Connecticut Colony. His and his co-workers' activities were viewed with suspicion by the settlers: he was expelled from New York and Connecticut once, and another time he was jailed in New York for seven weeks.[1]
He returned to
He retired in 1784, leaving the
Family
He was married three times. His first two wives were native converts: Rachel, a
Notes
- ^ a b c d Rau, Albert G. (1934). "Post, Christian Frederick". Dictionary of American Biography. New York: Charles Scribner's Sons.
- ^ Bell, Whitfield J., and Charles Greifenstein, Jr. Patriot-Improvers: Biographical Sketches of Members of the American Philosophical Society. 3 vols. Philadelphia: American Philosophical Society, 1997, II: 104—10.
References
This article incorporates text from a publication now in the public domain: Wilson, J. G.; Fiske, J., eds. (1900). . Appletons' Cyclopædia of American Biography. New York: D. Appleton.
Further reading
- Parkman, Francis (1907). Montcalm and Wolfe. Francis Parkman's Works. Vol. 12. Boston: Little, Brown & Co. pp. 352–359. This tells the story of his 1758 mission during the French and Indian War.
External links
- [1] Last resting place in Germantown, PA., at findagrave.com
- [2] Pennsylvania state roadside marker noting how Post's friendship with the Indians and the threat of Forbes' army on Pittsburgh led to the collapse of the French presence in the western territories (and thereby by inference the dominance of English as the spoken language in the expanding colonization).
- [3] Site on the early history of Western Pennsylvania including a segment on a marker denoting the location of the King Beaver (Tamaqua).
- [4] Notes on the park near Slippery Rock, PA, where the marker locating the spot where Post met with King Beaver is found.