Boehler expressed his willingness to preach at any time,
but declined to administer the Sacraments for any denomination except his own,
so the appointment was not made.
On the 28th of April, the baggage of the Missionaries
was put aboard the `Union Galley', Capt. Moberley, with instructions
that Boehler and his companions should join her at Portsmouth.
Neisser was to go with them to Georgia, and from there,
as opportunity offered, to St. Thomas, but while the ship lay at Portsmouth
other instructions reached him, and Oglethorpe kindly made no objection
to his withdrawing his box and staying behind, though he did not
quite understand it.
On the 15th of May, Peter Boehler, George Schulius,
and the lad Simon Peter Harper, left London, but finding the ship
not yet ready to sail, they, by Oglethorpe's instructions,
went to Southampton where some of the vessels were lying.
Returning to Portsmouth they embarked on May 22nd, and soon found
they were "to dwell in Sodom and Gomorrah" during their voyage.
On the 30th the fleet sailed to Southampton for the soldiers,
and when they came aboard four days later "Sodom and Gomorrah
were fully reproduced.
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