nts, they closed an agreement with
Zinzendorf whereby the Count received 30 Pounds with which to prepare
"two Brethren to reside for the instruction of the Negroes at such place
in Carolina as the said associates shall direct." The missionaries,
when they had entered upon their work, were to receive a salary, "not
exceeding thirty pounds a year," from the "associates".

For this missionary enterprise, so much to his liking, Zinzendorf
appointed "one of my chaplains, master Boehler," and "Schulius, a
Moravian brother," who with Richter and Wenzel Neisser arrived in
London, February 18th, 1738. At the house of their friend Wynantz,
the Dutch merchant, they met John Wesley, who offered to secure them a
pleasant, inexpensive lodging near James Hutton's, where he was staying.

Peter Boehler had been a student at Jena when Spangenberg was lecturing
there, and was himself a professor at that seat of learning when he
decided to accept Zinzendorf's call to mission work, and join the
Moravians, with whom he had been for a long time in sympathy. Like
Spangenberg he was a highly educated man, and an able leader, fitted to
play an important part in the Church of his adoption. In December, 1737,
he was ordained at Herrnhut by the bishops, David Nitschmann and Count
Zinzendorf, and in later years he, too, became a bishop of the Unity.

On the 22nd of February, Boehler and his companions called on Gen.
Oglethorpe, who at first supposed they were simply going over to join
the Savannah congregation. Boehler explained that Richter, who spoke
French as well as German, had come as the Agent of the Moravians, in
accordance with the suggestion made by the Trustees to Bishop Nitschmann
in 1736; that Wenzel Neisser was going on an official visitation to
America, especially to the West Indies; and that he and Schulius were
the missionaries promised by Count Zinzendorf for work among the negroes
in Carolina. The General courteously invited them to confer with him
further, either by letter or in person, and offered to take them with
him, as he expected shortly to sail for Georgia with his regiment.

Later, when they wished to come to a definite agreement with Oglethorpe,
who represented the "associates of Dr. Bray", they experienced some
difficulty, owing to the fact that a letter of introduction Oglethorpe
expected to receive from Count Zinzendorf had failed to arrive, but the
exhibition of their passports, and Richter's explanation that Zinzen