Post, Christian Frederich
Missionary priest. Born in Chojnice (Conuts), Polish Prussia, in 1710; was a joiner by trade. Since 1743, labored as a missionary among the Iroquois Indians in New York. Unjustly accused of treason and of intending to assist the French in the war against England, was arrested, and confined in prison
for two months; later resided at Pachgatgoch, near the present town of Kent, Litchfleld County, Conn., living in the Indian manner, preaching the Gospel and at the same time working at his trade as a joiner. In 1751, Post returned to Europe and took part in the unsuccessful missionary expedition to Labrador in 1752. He returned to Bethlehem in 1754 as a Moravian missionary, and was sent to Wyoming, where he preached to the Indians till the end of 1775. It was he who inaugurated the Moravian activity in the transappalachian region by his daring and politically important travels in 1758-59. In 1761 he built the first house within the limits of the present State of Ohio. In the following year he tried to establish a Moravian mission in the present county of Tuscarawas, in Ohio, but his efforts failed. In 1764 he sailed for the Mosquito Coast, Nicaragua. where he preached to the natives for several years. He died at Germantown in 1785.From: "Who's Who in Polish America" by Rev. Francis Bolek, Editor-in-Chief; Harbinger House, New York, 1943