Df, in Robert Hanson Harrison’s writing, DLC:GW; Varick transcript, DLC:GW.

Henry Van Vleck (d. 1785), a prominent Moravian of New York, had been a merchant and ship-owner in that city before retiring and taking up residence in Bethlehem, Pa., in 1774. In November 1777, Van Vleck fell under suspicion of loyalism because of his supposed involvement in a conspiracy to distribute an address to the German inhabitants of southeastern Pennsylvania exhorting them to welcome the British army (see Pa. Archives, description begins Samuel Hazard et al., eds. Pennsylvania Archives. 9 ser., 138 vols. Philadelphia and Harrisburg, 1852–1949. description ends 1st ser., 6:5–8, 67–68, and 76–77, and Levering, History of Bethlehem, description begins Joseph Mortimer Levering. A History of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1741–1892, with Some Account of Its Founders and Their Early Activity in America. 1903. Reprint. New York, 1971. description ends 472–73). But Van Vleck seems to have retained the trust of Pennsylvania’s executive officers (see Levering, History of Bethlehem, description begins Joseph Mortimer Levering. A History of Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, 1741–1892, with Some Account of Its Founders and Their Early Activity in America. 1903. Reprint. New York, 1971. description ends 507–8).