n in 1747.

1746.

General Oglethorpe was much impressed by the industry of the Moravians
in Savannah, and was sorry to see them leave the Province. In October,
1746, therefore, he proposed to Count Zinzendorf that a new attempt
should be made further up the Savannah River. He offered to give them
five hundred and twenty-six acres near Purisburg, and to arrange for
two men to be stationed in Augusta, either as licensed Traders, for many
Indians came there, or as Schoolmasters.

Zinzendorf thought well of the plan, and accepted the tract, which
Oglethorpe deeded to him Nov. 1st, 1746, the land lying on the Carolina
side of the Savannah River, adjoining the township of Purisburg, where
Boehler and Schulius had made many friends.

No colonists, however, were sent over, and the title to the land lapsed
for lack of occupancy, as that to Old Fort, on the Ogeechee, had already
done.

1774.

Early in 1774, Mr. Knox, Under-Secretary of State in London, asked for
missionaries to preach the Gospel to the slaves on his plantation in
Georgia. He offered a small piece of land, whereon they might live
independently, and promised ample store of provisions.

This time the plan was carried into execution, and Ludwig Mueller,
formerly teacher in the Pedagogium at Niesky, with John George Wagner as
his companion, went to England, and sailed from there to Georgia.
They settled on Mr. Knox's plantation, and at once began to visit
and instruct the slaves, and preach to the whites living in the
neighborhood. "Knoxborough" lay on a creek about sixteen miles from
Savannah, midway between that town and Ebenezer. The land had been
settled by Germans, Salzburgers and Wittenbergers, and Mr. Knox had
bought up their fifty acre tracts, combining them into a large rice
plantation. The homes of the Germans had been allowed to fall into ruin,
the overseer occupying a three-roomed house, with an outside kitchen.
Mueller was given a room in the overseer's house, preaching there to the
white neighbors who chose to hear him, and to the negroes in the large
shed that sheltered the stamping mill. Wagner occupied a room cut off
from the kitchen.

In February, 1775, Frederick William Marshall, Agent of the Unitas
Fratrum on the Wachovia Tract in North Carolina, (with headquarters
at Salem) visited Georgia to inspect the Moravian property there,
accompanied by Andrew Broesing, who joined Mueller and Wagner in their
missionary wo