The Bishop had had nothing whatever to do with the matter,
and this was the conclusion reached, for the title to the Town Lot No. 3
passed at the Syndic's death, March 28th, 1779, to his son
Christian David Nitschmann.
June 14th, 1784, August Gottlieb Spangenberg and Christian David Nitschmann
by deed transferred their title to the Savannah property
to Hans Christian Alexander von Schweinitz, Administrator of the estate
of the Unitas Fratrum in Pennsylvania.
The Revolutionary War had come and gone, and Von Schweinitz began again
to investigate the condition of affairs in Savannah. Their Agent,
James Habersham, had died in 1775, but his son James had kept up the taxes,
so the title was intact. "But there is a matter," he wrote,
"which it is necessary you should be made acquainted with.
When the British Troops took possession of Savannah,
they had occasion for a lot belonging to a Mr. George Kellar,
for the purpose of erecting a fort on, it being situated
in the outskirts of the town, and in order to satisfy this man
they VERY GENEROUSLY gave him your two lots in lieu of
the one they had taken from him, but very fortunately for you,
our Legislature passed a Law rendering null and void
all their acts during the time they held this country,
and notwithstanding Mr.
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