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Zweitzer their Doctor, and one of the elders, taking some Indians as guides, to explore the part of the country which answered to the description of the Saltzburgers. They went up the river in boats as far as Mr.
He opened a school at Highgate and Hampstead, and one for girls at Savannah. He then visited the Saltzburgers' orphan-house at Ebenezer; and, if any thing was wanting to perfect his own design, or to inflame his zeal, he found it there. The Saltzburgers themselves were exiles for conscience' sake, and eminent for piety and industry. Their ministers, Gronau and Bolzius, were truly evangelical.
Delegation of the Missionaries JOHN WESLEY stationed at Savannah Has a conference with Tomo Chichi His Preaching deemed personal in its applications He becomes unpopular Meets with persecution Leaves the Province and returns to England CHARLES WESLEY attends Oglethorpe to Frederica Finds himself unpleasantly situated Furnished with despatches for the Trustees, he sets out for Charlestown, and thence takes passage for England By stress of weather the Vessel driven off its course Puts in at Boston, New England His reception there Sails thence for England After a perilous voyage, arrives BENJAMIN INGHAM also at Frederica Goes to Savannah to apprize John Wesley of the sickness of his brother Resides among the Creeks in order to learn their language Returns to England CHARLES DELAMOTTE at Savannah Keeps a School Is much respected GEORGE WHITEFIELD comes to Savannah His reception Visits Tomo Chichi, who was sick Ministerial labors Visits the Saltzburgers Pleased with their provision for Orphan Children Visits Frederica and the adjacent Settlements Returns to England Makes a second voyage to Georgia, and takes efficient measures for the erection of an Orphan House,
The Saltzburgers were extremely pleased with the place, and adopted it They then kneeled down by the river side, and devoutly thanked God for bringing them out of their persecutions, safe through so many dangers, into a land of rest; in memorial of which, they desired that the place might be called EBENEZER "Hitherto the Lord hath helped us!"
Spangenberg, who had nearly concluded every thing relative to their embarkation, with the Trustees, and to their accommodation and settlement, with General Oglethorpe. A number of Saltzburgers were also about to emigrate; and three zealous ministers of the Church of England, Mr. John Wesley, together with his brother Charles, and Mr. Benjamin Ingham, went with them in the same ship.
X. Oglethorpe's disinterestedness in the undertaking, XI. Advertisement of Governor Johnson of South Carolina, and letter of the Governor and Council to Oglethorpe, XII. Account of the Creeks, XIII. Account of the Indians in Georgia by Oglethorpe, XIV. Memoir of the Duke of Argyle, XV. Saltzburgers, XVI. Arrival of these persecuted German Protestants in Georgia, XVII. Settlement of Moravians,
They, therefore, went back to Abercorn, and thence to the designed settlement of the Saltzburgers, where Oglethorpe, parting with his honorable friend, crossed the river with the Indians, and renewed his excursion to Palachocolas. There he found a fort erected at the lowest passage of the river, and forty-five miles from Savannah.
"As the Trustees for settling Georgia are giving all proper encouragement for the Saltzburg emigrants to go over and settle there, some of the managers for those poor people have sent over to the Trustees from Holland, a curious medal or device, enchased on silver, representing the emigration of the poor Saltzburgers from their native country, which opens like a box, and in the inside contains a map of their country, divided into seventeen districts, with seventeen little pieces of historical painting, representing the seventeen persecutions of the primitive Christians; the whole being folded up in a very small compass, and is a most ingenious piece of workmanship."
While he was zealously engaged in strengthening the Colony, by locating large accessions of brave and industrious settlers on the frontiers, and erecting forts, and supplying them with troops and ammunition, the people who were "sitting under their own vines and fig-trees, with none to molest or make them afraid," and who had been best and longest provided for, were insensible to the hardships and dangers to which others were exposed; and, cavilling at the circumstances in which they were placed, complained as if he must be personally accountable for certain restrictions in the plan of settlement, and subsequent financial and commercial affairs, to which the Trustees had deemed it proper to subject them; restrictions which might have been submitted to by them with as good a grace as they were by the Saltzburgers at Ebenezer and the Scots at Darien, "who murmured not, neither were unthankful."
Delegation of the Missionaries JOHN WESLEY stationed at Savannah Has a conference with Tomo Chichi His Preaching deemed personal in its applications He becomes unpopular Meets with persecution Leaves the Province and returns to England CHARLES WESLEY attends Oglethorpe to Frederica Finds himself unpleasantly situated Furnished with despatches for the Trustees, he sets out for Charlestown, and thence takes passage for England By stress of weather the Vessel driven off its course Puts in at Boston, New England His reception there Sails thence for England After a perilous voyage arrives BENJAMIN INGHAM also at Frederica Goes to Savannah to apprize John Wesley of the sickness of his brother Resides among the Creeks in order to learn their language Returns to England CHARLES DELAMOTTE at Savannah Keeps a School Is much respected GEORGE WHITEFIELD comes to Savannah His reception Visits Tomo Chichi, who was sick Ministerial labors Visits the Saltzburgers Pleased with their provision for Orphan Children Visits Frederica and the adjacent Settlements Returns to England Makes a second voyage to Georgia, and takes efficient measures for the erection of an Orphan House.
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