Early in 1774, Mr. Knox, Under-Secretary of State in London, asked for
missionaries to preach the Gospel to the slaves on his plantation in Georgia.
He offered a small piece of land, whereon they might live independently,
and promised ample store of provisions.
This time the plan was carried into execution, and Ludwig Mueller,
formerly teacher in the Pedagogium at Niesky, with John George Wagner
as his companion, went to England, and sailed from there to Georgia.
They settled on Mr. Knox's plantation, and at once began
to visit and instruct the slaves, and preach to the whites
living in the neighborhood. "Knoxborough" lay on a creek
about sixteen miles from Savannah, midway between that town and Ebenezer.
The land had been settled by Germans, Salzburgers and Wittenbergers,
and Mr. Knox had bought up their fifty acre tracts, combining them
into a large rice plantation. The homes of the Germans had been allowed
to fall into ruin, the overseer occupying a three-roomed house,
with an outside kitchen. Mueller was given a room in the overseer's house,
preaching there to the white neighbors who chose to hear him,
and to the negroes in the large shed that sheltered the stamping mill.
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