Oglethorpe
having given his permission. About the time the periagua arrived,
a heavy rain came up, and fearing the effect on the new-comers,
Spangenberg obtained permission to take them into the cabin.
When ten o'clock came they decided to wait no longer,
and started for Savannah, with the result that they spent the entire night
in the rain, in an open boat, and then had passed but half way up the river!
Early in the morning Spangenberg took two men and his small boat
and went ahead, stopping at Capt. Thomson's ship to get some things
Korte had sent them from London. They reached Savannah in the afternoon,
and before daybreak on Thursday, Feb. 23rd, the periagua
at last landed its passengers at Savannah.
That evening Spangenberg returned with Oglethorpe to the ship,
that various important matters might be more fully discussed.
They agreed, (1) that the five hundred acres already surveyed for Zinzendorf
should be retained, and settled, but that it would be wise
to take an additional five hundred acres of more fertile land nearer Savannah,
where it would be more accessible, the grant to be made
to Christian Ludwig von Zinzendorf, the Count's eldest son;
(2) that no Moravian could accept a fifty acre tract without pledging himself
to military service, but land could be secured for a number of them
at the rate of twenty acres apiece, without this obligation.
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