ermany. In 1735, it was decided that Bishop Jablonski, of Berlin,
and Bishop Sitkovius, of Poland, who represented the Episcopate of the
ancient Unitas Fratrum, should consecrate one of the members of the
renewed Unitas Fratrum at Herrnhut, linking the Church of the Fathers
with that of their descendents, and enabling the latter to send to the
Mission field ministers whose ordination could not be questioned by
other denominations, or by the civil authorities. David Nitschmann, then
one of the Elders at Herrnhut, was chosen to receive consecration,
the service being performed, March 13th, by Bishop Jablonski, with the
written concurrence of Bishop Sitkovius.

The three parties from Herrnhut met at Magdeburg on August 13th,
proceeding from there to Hamburg by boat, and at Altona, the sea-port of
Hamburg, they found ten more colonists who had preceded them. Here also
they were joined by Christian Adolph von Hermsdorf, who went with them
to Georgia as "a volunteer". Apparently Lieutenant Hermsdorf wanted the
position of Zinzendorf's Agent in Georgia, for the Count wrote to him
on the 19th of August, agreeing that he should go with the Moravians, at
their expense, but saying that if he desired office he must first prove
himself worthy of it by service with and for the others, even as the
Count had always done. If the reports from Georgia justified it, the
Count promised to send him proper powers later, and to find a good
opportunity for his wife to follow him. Rosina Schwarz and her child,
who had come with them to Hamburg to meet her husband, returned with him
to their home in Holstein; and on account of Rosina Neubert's serious
illness, she and her husband reluctantly agreed to leave the company,
and wait for another opportunity to go to Georgia. In 1742 they
carried out their intention of emigrating to America, though it was to
Pennsylvania, and not to Georgia.

The "second company", therefore, consisted of twenty-five persons:

David Nitschmann, the Bishop.
Christian Adolph von Hermsdorf, a volunteer.
John Andrew Dober, a potter.
David Zeisberger.
David Tanneberger, a shoemaker.
John Tanneberger, son of David, a boy of ten years.
George Neisser.
Augustin Neisser, a young lad, brother of George.
Henry Roscher, a linen-weaver.
David Jag.
John Michael Meyer, a tailor.
Jacob Frank.
John Martin Mack.
Matthias Seybold, a farmer.
Gottlieb Demuth.
John Boehner, a carpenter.
Matthias B