The Moravians originated through the efforts of John Huss, the Bohemian religious leader who is considered by many to have been the forerunner of Martin Luther as a protestant reformer. The circumstances of their migration to America have described as follows by historian F.A.. Sondley in his work, A History of Buncombe County, North Carolina Spartanberg, SC, "The Bohemian John Huss, born about 1369 read and began to preach the doctrines of John Wycliffe The English religious reformer for which he was excommunicated in 1410 and, in pursuance of order of the Council of Constance, burned at the stake on July 6, 1415. His sect survived; but, because of action of the Council of Besel in 1433, divided into parties, one the which returned to the Catholic Church and the other became known as Bohemian and Moravian Brethren's and in 1500 had 400 hundred congregations, but were nearly exterminated by persecution about 1617. One hundred years later Christian David led the remainder into Saxony where Nicholaus Ludwig, Count Von Zinzendorf und Pottendorf, gave them a place named Herrnhut and, in 1727, organized the Moravian Church. Moravians settled in Georgia 1n 1735, and removed to Pennsylvania at Bethlehem 1n 1740. In 1751 this body, under the name of Unitas Fratrum, unity of Brethern contracted in London with the Earl of Granville for one hundred thousand acres of land in North Carolina. Mr. John G. Cagle August issue page 3 has a map Route: of Moravian Wagon trains from Bethlehem, PA to the Wachovia settlement in NC, beginning in 1753. The Route the Moravians took each time came near the Cagle Homestead thus making them no strangers to our Cagle relatives and according to oral traditions, migrated southward along the Great Wagon Train, through the Shenandoah Valley of VA, into the Piedmont of North Carolina traveling in a wagon train headed by the Moravians Brethren. >This part is by LaMona: >I noticed Mary Cagle some say is a daughter of Leonard Cagle must have stayed a while in Virginia or came back to Bedford County, VA, as she Married Jacob Echols bachelor, Mary Cogel/Cagle a spinster July 7, 1761, does anyone have any comments. LaMona >