At this point in the records appears a peculiar uncertainty
as to the identity of the owner of the David Nitschmann lots.
The fact that there were three David Nitschmanns in the active service
of the Moravian Church during a number of years after its renewal in Herrnhut
affords ample opportunity for confusion, but one would not expect
to find it in the minds of their contemporaries. But even such a man
as Frederick William Marshall wrote, "The Deeds to these two lots,
Nos. 3 and 4, are kept in Bethlehem (one stands in the name of Brother Joseph,
the other of Bishop D'd Nitschmann, who passed away in Bethlehem)
and it would be well if something were done about them.
I do not know what can be arranged with the son of the latter;
but Brother David Nitschmann, who is now in Zeist, said when he was in America
that he himself was the David Nitschmann in whose name the grant was made,
because he was the one who had shared in the negotiations
with the Trustees of Georgia." Bishop David Nitschmann had died in Bethlehem,
Oct. 9th, 1772, where his son Immanuel lived until 1790.
The David Nitschmann residing in Zeist was the Syndic,
formerly Count Zinzendorf's Hausmeister, the leader of the first company
to London, where he and Spangenberg had arranged matters with the Trustees,
and had each received fifty acres of land in his own name.
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