In October, Tomochichi died, and was buried with great pomp
in Percival Square in Savannah. The Moravians were asked to furnish music
at the funeral, but declined, and it was hardly missed
amid the firing of minute guns, and three volleys over his grave.
After his death his little village was abandoned, and the question
of further missionary efforts there settled itself.
During the winter John Regnier became deeply incensed at some plain speaking
from Schulius, and decided to leave at once for Europe,
the Congregation paying his way. He probably went to Herrnhut,
as that had been his intention some months previously, and later he served
as a missionary in Surinam. In after years he returned to Pennsylvania,
where he joined those who were inimical to the Moravians.
Peter Rose, his wife and daughter left for Pennsylvania
soon after their withdrawal from Irene. They settled in Germantown,
and there Peter died March 12th, 1740. Catherine married John Michael Huber
in 1742, who died five years later on a voyage to the West Indies.
Being for the third time a widow, she became one of the first occupants
of the Widows' House in Bethlehem, and served as a Deaconess for many years,
dying in 1798.
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