This marriage was the cause of a very interesting discussion
among the Moravians, as to who should perform the ceremony.
"In the afternoon the Brethren met to decide who should be appointed
to marry Waschke and Juliana. Properly Br. Peter (Rose)
should have been ordained by Br. Anton (Seifert) to the office of a "Diener"
in the Congregation, that he might marry and baptize, but the Brethren
did not think it necessary to ordain him on Waschke's account,
and voted that Toeltschig should marry them. He objected,
but they said Toeltschig had been made a `Diener' of the Congregation
at Herrnhut. He protested that he had not been sent to Georgia
to marry and baptize, and did not wish to do it. The others insisted,
and asked that the lot be tried; Toeltschig agreed to submit to their wish,
and the lot drawn read `he shall marry these two'," which he did the next day.
Parallel with this is the baptism of Rose's twin daughters,
Anna Catherina and Maria Magdalena, who were born on the 16th of September,
1737, -- Anna Catherina dying later in the same year.
Of this Toeltschig wrote: "I, at the request of the Brethren,
baptized them in the name of the Father, the Son, and of the Holy Ghost,
after Br.
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