the land, the
Moravians decided not to build a house for themselves, but to continue
with the overseer, who was kind to them, and gave Mueller the use of a
horse for his visits to adjoining plantations.

James Habersham, who had come over with George Whitefield in 1738, was
one of the most prominent men in Savannah at this time. In 1744 he had
established a commercial house in Georgia, the first of its kind, to
ship lumber, hogs, skins, etc., to England, and this business had been a
success. He had taken a great interest in Whitefield's Orphan House, and
had been active in governmental affairs, having served as Secretary of
the Province, President of the Council, and Acting Governor of Georgia.
For many years he had been the Agent in charge of the Moravian lots in
and near Savannah, and now, in failing health, and a sufferer from gout,
he asked that one of the missionaries might be sent to his three estates
on the Ogeechee River, partly as his representative and partly to
instruct the slaves. It was decided that Wagner should accept this
invitation and go to "Silkhope", while Mueller and Broesing remained at
Knoxborough, Mueller preaching at "Silkhope" every two weeks.

Marshall was much pleased with the reception accorded him and the
missionaries, and hoped the time was coming for again using the lots in
Savannah, but the hope again proved to be fallacious. The missionaries
all suffered greatly from fever, always prevalent on the rice
plantations in the summer, and on Oct. 11th, 1775, Mueller died. The
outbreak of the Revolutionary War made Wagner's and Broesing's position
precarious, for the English Act exempting the Moravians from military
service was not likely to be respected by the Americans, and in 1776
Broesing returned to Wachovia, where the Moravians had settled in
sufficient numbers to hold their own, though amid trials manifold.
Wagner stayed in Georgia until 1779, and then he too left the field, and
returned to England.

The Savannah Lands.

In January, 1735, fifty acres of Savannah land was granted by the
Trustees of Georgia to August Gottlieb Spangenberg, who was going
to Georgia as the leader of the first company of Moravian colonists.
Spangenberg had the habit of speaking of himself as "Brother Joseph"
in his diaries, and in the records he sometimes appears as Joseph
Spangenberg, sometimes as Joseph Augustus Gottlieb Spangenberg, and
sometimes by his true name only. According to custom, the fif