y all, but Oglethorpe thought
three men must be furnished to represent Zinzendorf, Spangenberg and
Nitschmann (the Hausmeister), the three free-holders, and suggested that
Lieutenant Hermsdorf might take one place. Nitschmann said that would
not do, that the Moravians "could not and would not fight," and there
the matter rested. Nitschmann wrote to Zinzendorf, begging him to come
to London, and interview the Trustees, but advised that he wait for
Oglethorpe's return from Georgia some nine months later.

On this account the members of the second company agreed that it would
be better for them not to accept land individually, but to go, as the
others had done, as Zinzendorf's "servants", to work on his tract.
Oglethorpe suggested that an additional five hundred acres should
be requested for Count Zinzendorf's son, and Nitschmann referred the
proposal to the authorities at Herrnhut. In regard to the five hundred
acre tract already granted, the General said that it had been located
near the Indians, at the Moravians' request, but that settlers there
would be in no danger, for the Indians were at peace with the English,
there was a fort near by, and besides he intended to place a colony of
Salzburgers fifty miles further south, when the Moravians would be, not
on the border but in the center of Georgia.

Gen. Oglethorpe assured Nitschmann that there would be no trouble
regarding the transfer of title to the Georgia lands, for while, for
weighty reasons, the grants had been made in tail male, there was no
intention, on the part of the Trustees, to use this as a pretext for
regaining the land, and if there was no male heir, a brother, or
failing this, a friend, might take the title. (In 1739 the law entailing
property in Georgia was modified to meet this view, and after 1750, all
grants were made in fee simple.) He also explained that the obligation
to plant a certain number of mulberry trees per acre, or forfeit the
land, was intended to spur lazy colonists, and would not be enforced in
the case of the Moravians.

Nitschmann told Gen. Oglethorpe of the wives and children who had been
left in Herrnhut, and suggested the advisability of establishing an
English School for them, that they might be better fitted for life
in Georgia. Oglethorpe liked the idea, and, after due consideration,
suggested that some one in Herrnhut who spoke French or Latin,
preferably the latter, should be named as Count Zinzendorf's Agent, to
handle