Pennsylvania was an attractive settling place for the earliest North American Moravians. Rode Island and Pennsylvania were the only American colonies to establish freedom of religion in their respective constitutions.
William Penn sought out persecuted Protestants in Europe. This in part explains explains why Pennsylvania was the most religiously diverse of the colonies in North America -and- attractive to the Moravians.
Roughly 100,000 Germans immigrated to Pennsylvania in the first and second quarters of the eighteenth century. About 3,200 of the immigrants were from persecuted Christian expressions. The 3,200 of course included the Moravians that established Bethlehem, Pennsylvania and surrounding Moravian communities. God had provided.
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