On the question of military service he could reach no definite
and satisfactory conclusion, and thought it a great pity
that there had not been a perfect mutual understanding
between Zinzendorf and the Trustees before the first company sailed.
That Zinzendorf's "servants" should be free from military service
was admitted by 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.
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