The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740

Before David Nitschmann, the “Hausmeister”, left London, after the sailing of the first Moravian company for Georgia, he presented to the Trustees a series of propositions, the...

After Spangenberg had decided not to comply with the request contained in the letter from Savannah, but to stay and prosecute the work among the Schwenkfelders, where a door see...

In the year 1735 a voyage across the Atlantic was a very different thing from what it is in this year of grace 1904. To-day a mighty steamship equipped with powerful engines, pl...

The same day that Bishop Nitschmann left Savannah, John Wesley moved into the parsonage which had just been vacated by his predecessor, Mr. Quincy. A week earlier he had entered...

From this document it appears that even at this early stage of the negotiations Zinzendorf’s plans for the settlement in Georgia were well matured. A town was to be built by his...

May 18th, 1740, John Hagen arrived in Savannah. He had come over intending to go as missionary to the Cherokees, and his disappointment in finding that the Moravians had abandon...

It was in the year 1728 that the English Parliament was persuaded by James Oglethorpe, Esq.--soldier, statesman and philanthropist,--to appoint a committee to investigate the co...

Among those who came to share the hospitalities of Count Zinzendorf during the years immediately preceding the renewal of the Unitas Fratrum, were a company of Schwenkfelders. T...

for the expenses of the removal to Georgia, the money to be given them only when they are ready to embark in England,--payment to be made several years later, a rate of interest...

j. That those among his colonists who wish to preach the gospel to the heathen shall be allowed to do so; and their converts shall have the same religious freedom as his colonists.