Five Things to Know about the Moravians of Yesteryear

The official name was the Unitas Fratrum (Unity of Brothers);

In the twenty-five years before the Moravians settled in North Carolina in 1753 the Moravian church had grown from about two hundred members in Germany to several thousand from Latvia to Pennsylvania, from Greenland to South America; 

In 1749 the British Parliament recognized the Moravian church “as an ancient and episcopal church, with bishops in apostolic succession like those in the Anglican Church.”

Parliament exempted Moravians from bearing arms in the militia;

By the time that Salem was established in 1771 there were more black Moravians than white Moravians in the New World.