ow asked in vain, and
had there been a promising work begun among the Indians during the
intervening years it would inevitably have drawn more laborers, as it
did in Pennsylvania. But the Trustees shut the door in their faces,
other promising and more hospitable fields opened, and the Moravian
efforts were thereafter given to the upbuilding of other commonwealths.

In the latter part of January, 1738, eight more of the Moravian
colonists left Savannah,--Gotthard Demuth and his wife, George Waschke,
his wife and mother, Augustin Neisser, Gottlieb Demuth, and David Jag,
those who remained giving them money and provisions for their journey
to Pennsylvania. Gotthard Demuth and wife settled in Germantown,
later moving to Bethlehem and joining in the organization of that
Congregation. In 1743 they were again living at Germantown, where
Gotthard died the following year. Regina subsequently married David
Tanneberger and moved once more to Bethlehem. Gottlieb Demuth lived
at several places, but finally married, and settled in the Moravian
Congregation at Schoeneck. Jag, who located at Goshenhopper, and the
Waschkes and Augustin Neisser who went to Germantown, never rejoined the
Church.

On the 28th of January, the Moravians in Savannah received an
unlooked-for addition to their number. Toeltschig wrote to Spangenberg,
"Yesterday two boys, who belong to Herrnhut, came unexpectedly to our
house. They ran away from the Brethren in Ysselstein and went to Mr.
Oglethorpe in London, begging him to send them to the Brethren in
Georgia. He did so, but we will have to pay their transportation. One is
Zeisberger's son David, about 17 years old, and the other John Michael
Schober, about 15 years old. Both are bad boys." It appears that when
Zeisberger's parents went to Georgia he was left in Herrnhut to finish
his education. From there Count Zinzendorf took him to a Moravian
settlement near Utrecht, Holland, where he was employed as errand boy
in a shop. He was treated with well-meant but ill-judged severity, and
finally after a particularly trying and undeserved piece of harshness in
October, 1737, he and his friend Schober decided to try and make their
way to his parents in Georgia. In this they succeeded, and though their
story was received with disapprobation, they soon made a place for
themselves. Schober did not live very long, but Zeisberger, from the
"bad boy" of Toeltschig's letter, became the assistant of Peter Boehler
in South