@phdthesis{355,
  keywords = {Fairfield, Thamesville, Upper Canada, Moravian Germans, Indigenous peoples, Diaries, Missionaries, Settlers, 18th century, 19th century},
  author = {Gerlinde Sabathy-Judd},
  title = {The diary of the Moravian Indian mission of Fairfield, Upper Canada, 1792-1813},
  abstract = {This thesis an annotated translation from the original German of the official diary of the Moravian Indian mission of Fairfield, Upper Canada. The translated text is preceded by a thematic, five-part Introduction, which places the Moravians in the proper historical, diplomatic and religious context. The diary commences with the foundation of the mission in April, 1792, and ends with the latter's destruction in the War of 1812. As an historical document of its time and place, it has no parallel. Part one of the Introduction deals briefly with the Moravians' European background and their world-wide mission program. It examines the Moravians as an extra-ecclesiastical institution, and as Evangelicals, and compares them to the Methodists. The conparison is deliberate. Methodists and Moravians have much in common but differ on a fundamental point in their theology, something the diary helps to demonstrate. More importantly, the Methodists were the only other active Evangelicals on the Thames in Fairfield's time. Part two deals with why and how the Moravians came to Upper Canada and to what extent they made good loyal citizens of the newly formed province. It places them in the Ohio Valley during the American Revolution and traces their movements throughout Ohio and Michigan, and finally to Fairfield. This section centres on Moravian "neutrality," something that was of great consequence to their future as an Indian mission. While they practised non-involvement in all military conflicts, they did not espouse a Quaker-like pacifism. Neither did their non-combative position save them from harassment in times of war. Fairfield was the largest settlement on the lower Thames in the eighteenth century. Its physical description and function as a multi-cultural pioneer farming community is the theme of the third section while the fourth deals with the community as a religious institution. Like all Moravian missions, Fairfield followed a well-established pattern in its daily spiritual life whose rather complex system is explored in full. The fifth and last section places the Fairfield diary in the larger context of extant Moravian archive material. Here a comparison to the Jesuit Relations is made. Style and format of the original document and methods of translation are discussed. (Abstract shortened by UMI.)},
  year = {1998},
  edition = {Ph.D.},
  number = {Dissertation/Thesis},
  pages = {1-1267, },
  publisher = {University of Western Ontario, London, Ontario},
  language = {English},
}