With Seifert again
in charge of affairs, the religious services had taken on new life,
and on October 18th, John Martin Mack was confirmed. Judith Toeltschig,
however, gave them great concern, and her brother Michael Haberland
sided with her, so that the company gladly saw them sail for Germany
in the latter part of January, 1740. There Michael married,
and returned to America in May, 1749, as one of the large company
which came to settle in Bethlehem, where he died in 1783.
Judith joined her husband in England, and in 1742 was serving
as "sick-waiter" of the Pilgrim Congregation in London.
This left only six Moravians in Savannah, for John Boehner
had already started for Pennsylvania on January 20th.
He had a very sore arm which they hoped would be benefited by the change,
and he was commissioned to try and gather together the members
who had preceded him, and to make arrangements for the reception
of the remnant which was soon to follow. He aided faithfully
during the early days of the settlement at Nazareth and Bethlehem,
and in 1742 went as a missionary to the island of St. Thomas,
where he labored earnestly and successfully for the rest of his life,
and died in 1787.
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