They were settled at first along the Hudson, and eventually many of them took up lands in the fertile valley of the Mohawk.
For fifty years or more German and Austrian Protestants poured into America.

In Pennsylvania their influx averaged about fifteen hundred a year, and that colony became the distributing center for the German race in America.

By 1727, Adam Muller and his little company had established the first white settlement in the Valley of Virginia.

In 1732 Joist Heydt went south from York, Pennsylvania, and settled on the Opequan Creek at or near the site of the present city of Winchester.
The life of Count Zinzendorf, called "the Apostle," one of the leaders of the Moravian immigrants, glows like a star out of those dark and troublous times.

Of high birth and gentle nurture, he forsook whatever of ease his station promised him and fitted himsclf for evangelical work.