The Moravian Church was a reformist sect founded in Bohemia and 
Moravia, in present-day Czechoslovakia, in the early 1400s.  Fleeing 
persecution at home, the first Moravian mission came to the New 
World in 1732, and moved from the West Indies to a colonial 
settlement in Georgia in 1735.  The mission was not successful among 
Indians there, and so in 1740 the Moravians went to Pennsylvania.  
There they continued to preach to Indians and settlers, and many 
people came to send their children to Moravian boarding schools.