![]() ![]() For five years they built organs here in the German style. In 1760, the farm became home to two preeminent Moravian organ builders, Johann Gottlob Klemm and David Tannenburg. There were no slaves listed in James Burnside’s will. We know that these farms were very different than a plantation in the southern United States. ![]() There were four large Moravian farms in Bethlehem including Burnside Plantation. The Moravian use of the word plantation stems from a German word meaning "plantings." A Moravian plantation was a working farm that produced crops for the entire community. Three Moravian plantations were located in what is now South Bethlehem. Three years after his death, Mary sold the farm to the Moravian Church, and it became Plantation #4 in the Moravian farming system. He was a contemporary of Benjamin Franklin serving with him on the Committee for Indian Affairs. In 1752, James was elected as the first representative to the Pennsylvania Provincial Assembly from the newly formed Northampton County. ![]() Their farm, Burnside Plantation, was the first privately held property in the settlement and first private home. In 1747, James and Mary Burnside decided to not follow the choir system of Moravian Bethlehem and purchased 500 acres just north of the Moravian settlement of Bethlehem. The following year, he married Mary Wendover, a Moravian widow from the Moravian congregation in New York. His daughter Rebecca died at the age of six of smallpox. He befriended a member of the Moravian Church in Georgia and came north eventually becoming a Moravian missionary. James Burnside, originally from County Meath, Ireland, traveled to Georgia, and in two years suffered much tragedy - two devastating fires and the death of his first wife. ![]()
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