It was decided that Wagner should accept this invitation and go to "Silkhope",
while Mueller and Broesing remained at Knoxborough,
Mueller preaching at "Silkhope" every two weeks.
Marshall was much pleased with the reception accorded
him and the missionaries, and hoped the time was coming
for again using the lots in Savannah, but the hope again proved
to be fallacious. The missionaries all suffered greatly from fever,
always prevalent on the rice plantations in the summer,
and on Oct. 11th, 1775, Mueller died. The outbreak of the Revolutionary War
made Wagner's and Broesing's position precarious, for the English Act
exempting the Moravians from military service was not likely to be respected
by the Americans, and in 1776 Broesing returned to Wachovia,
where the Moravians had settled in sufficient numbers to hold their own,
though amid trials manifold. Wagner stayed in Georgia until 1779,
and then he too left the field, and returned to England.
The Savannah Lands.
In January, 1735, fifty acres of Savannah land was granted
by the Trustees of Georgia to August Gottlieb Spangenberg,
who was going to Georgia as the leader of the first company
of Moravian colonists.
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