Background
Roth was born in Saarmund (a part of what is now Nuthetal), Brandenburg-Prussia, on 3 February 1726. He died in York, Pennsylvania
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John Roth
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Career
On 22 July 1791. In 1756 he was despatched to Pennsylvania, and three years later he entered the Moravian Indian mission, serving for fifteen years in Pennsylvania and Ohio. Returning to Pennsylvania in 1773, he was employed mostly in rural congregations till his death. Roth made a special study of the Unami dialect of the Lenape language, and composed in it an extensive religious work, "The History of our Lord and Saviour Jesus Christ," four fifths of which were lost by 1885.
Only the last part survives: "From Passion Week to his Ascension to Heaven" (Ein Versuch der Geschichte unsers Herrn u Heylandes Jesu Christi in das Delawarische übersetzt der Unami, von der Marter-Woche an bis zur Himmelfahrt unsers Herrn, im Yahr 1770 u 1772 zu Tschechschequanüng an der Susquehanna).
The manuscript is held by the American Philosophical Society in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
