Johanna married John Boehner, and sailed with him
to the West Indies in 1742, but died at sea before reaching there.
Boehler and his company expected to find Spangenberg and Bishop Nitschmann
in Pennsylvania, and were much disappointed to learn that both were absent.
They scarcely knew what to do, but Boehler held them together,
and when Whitefield decided to buy a large tract of land
and build thereon a Negro school, and a town for his English friends
of philanthropic mind, and when the Moravians were offered the task
of erecting the first house there, Boehler and his companions
gladly accepted the work. Bethlehem followed in due time,
and all were among those who organized that congregation.
David Zeisberger, Sr., died there in 1744, his wife in 1746.
Anton Seifert was appointed Elder, or Pastor of the Bethlehem Congregation,
married, and took an active part in the Church and School work there
and at Nazareth, the latter tract having been purchased from Whitefield
in 1741. April 8th, 1745, he sailed for Europe, laboring in England,
Ireland and Holland, and dying at Zeist in 1785.
John Martin Mack became one of the leaders of the Moravian Church
in its Mission work among the Indians in New York, Connecticut and Ohio
until 1760, when he was sent to the negro slaves on St.
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