In 1765 Bishop Ettwein went from Bethlehem to Savannah to look after
the property. He found that the large house on Spangenberg's lot
had been condemned as ruinous and pulled down. Some one had built
a small house on the other end of the same lot, and it was supposed to pay
4 Pounds a year ground rent, but the family living there was very poor,
and Habersham had been unable to collect anything.
By permission a poor woman had fenced in the Nitschmann lot,
and was using it as a kitchen-garden, rent free. The title to the farm lots
was in jeopardy, for a certain Alderman Becker in London
claimed that the Trustees had given him a tract, including these
and many other farms, but the settlers thereon were making a strong fight
to hold their property, in which they were finally successful.
At the time of Frederick William Marshall's visit to Savannah in 1775,
the two farm lots were reported to have some good timber,
even if they were not of much use otherwise, and the town lots
had increased in value with the growth of the town.
Marshall thought the latter could again be used for residence,
and as a centre for such missionary work as was already begun
by Mueller, Wagner and Broesing, but the Revolutionary War
put an end to their efforts.
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