The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740Fries, Adelaide L. (Adelaide Lisetta)
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The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740
Fries, Adelaide L. (Adelaide Lisetta)
Moravians -- Georgia
As their debt to the Trustees was not yet fully paid, Causton’s refusal
bound them in Savannah for the time being, according to their bond, so
they had to turn elsewhere for help. Early in February, they had heard
of Spangenberg’s return to Pennsylvania from his visit to St. Thomas,
and had written to ask him to come and help them for a while, but
being busy with other things he did not go. On the 5th of March, Ingham
suggested that he and one of their number should go to England to the
Trustees. They thought it over and decided that George Neisser should
go with him as far as Pennsylvania, where the case should be laid before
Spangenberg, with the request that he go to London, arrange matters with
the Trustees, and get permission for them to leave Georgia. Ingham was
going, with the approval of Wesley and Delamotte, to try and bring over
some of their friends to help in the work of evangelizing the Province.
A ship was ready to sail for Pennsylvania on the 9th, so Ingham and
Neisser took passage on her, and sailed, as the event proved, never to
return.
Chapter VI. Disintegration.
Spangenberg’s Visit.
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 seemed to be opening, he became
conscious of a feeling of uneasiness, an impression that he was needed
in Georgia. This was increased by news of the expected Spanish outbreak,
for so general was the alarm that all the war-ships in the northern
harbors were ordered to Carolina, and the selling of supplies to the
Spaniards was absolutely prohibited.
At this point George Neisser and Benjamin Ingham came, bringing word of
the pressure on the Moravians, their decision to leave Georgia as soon
as it could be arranged, and their request that Spangenberg should go
to England with Ingham to see the Trustees, and secure their consent. Of
this plan Spangenberg did not approve, for he thought the war would ruin
everything, or else the danger would be over, before he could make the
long journey to England, and return. Ingham professed himself ready
to carry letters to the Trustees, and do his best to influence them
to grant the Moravian requests, so Spangenberg decided to entrust that
errand to him, and himself go at once to Georgia, to see whether he
could not help matters there.
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