nt. The story is usually passed over by historians in a few short
paragraphs, and yet without the colony in Georgia, the whole history of
the Renewed Church of the Unitas Fratrum would have been very different.
Without that movement the Moravian Church might never have been
established in England, without it the great Methodist denomination
might never have come into being, without it the American Moravian
provinces, North or South, might not have been planned. Of course
Providence might have provided other means for the accomplishment of
these ends, but certain it is that in the actual development of all
these things the "unsuccessful attempt" in Georgia, 1735 to 1740, played
a most important part.

In preparing this history a number of private libraries, the collections
of the Georgia Historical Society, the Congressional Library, the
British Museum, were searched for data, but so little was found that
the story, in so far as it relates to the Moravian settlement, has been
drawn entirely from the original manuscripts in the Archives of the
Unitas Fratrum at Herrnhut, Germany, with some additions from the
Archives at Bethlehem, Pa., and Salem, N. C. For the general history of
Georgia, of the Moravian Church, and of the Wesleys, Steven's History of
Georgia, Hamilton's History of the Moravian Church, Levering's History
of Bethlehem, Pa., Some Fathers of the American Moravian Church, by
de Schweinitz, Strobel's History of the Salzburgers, Tyreman's Oxford
Methodists, and Wesley's Journal have been most largely used.

The history of the Moravian settlement in Georgia falls into that period
when dates are much confused through the contemporaneous use of the old
style, or Julian calendar, and the new style, or Gregorian calendar. As
the latter is now current everywhere, except in Russia and the Orient,
it is here employed throughout, old style dates being translated where
they occur in the records.

Special thanks are due to Rev. A. Glitsch, Archivist at Herrnhut,
for courtesies extended while the author was examining the invaluable
collection of papers entrusted to his care, and also for his supervision
of the copying of such documents as were selected; to Mr. Isaac Beckett,
of Savannah, for information respecting the Moravian lands; to Mr. John
Jordan, of Philadelphia, for copies of deeds and other papers relating
to the settlement; to Mr. W. S. Pfohl, of Salem, for assistance with the
illustrations; and to Mr. John W. F