On August 9th, Mr. Ingham went to the Moravians with a new plan.
Gen. Oglethorpe had agreed to build a schoolhouse for Indian children,
near Tomochichi's village, with the idea that it would give opportunity
also to reach the older men and women with the Gospel message.
The house was to contain three rooms, one for Ingham,
one for the Moravian missionaries, and one to be used for the school,
and it was suggested that the Moravians undertake the erection
of the building, the Trustees' fund to pay them for their labor.
The proposition was gladly accepted, and preparations were at once made
to send the necessary workmen.
On Monday, the 13th, Toeltschig and five others went to the spot
which had been selected for the Indian Schoolhouse, usually called `Irene'.
The site of this schoolhouse has been considered uncertain,
but a short manuscript account of "the Mission among the Indians in America",
preserved in the Herrnhut Archives, says distinctly that it stood
"a mile above the town (of Savannah) on an island in the Savannah River
which was occupied by the Creeks."
When the carpenters arrived the first act was to unite in prayer
for a blessing on their work, and then they began to fell trees
and cut down bushes, clearing the ground for the hut
in which they were to live while building the schoolhouse.
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