his 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. Kellar is perfectly well
acquainted with this matter, he has moved a house on one of the lots,
and on the other he has lately built another house, which he rents out,
and holds possession--in defiance of me, as I am possessed of no power
of attorney to warrant any proceeding against him." A power of attorney
was at once sent Habersham, with instructions to evict the intruder, and
rent, lease or sell the property.

A suit against the trespasser was won in 1794, but in 1801 his tenant
was still in possession, poor, and refusing to pay rent. Habersham
had meanwhile died, and John Gebhard Cunow, acting as attorney for
Von Schweinitz, who had returned to Germany in 1798, requested Matthew
McAllister to take charge of the matter; but McAllister, having made
some inquiries, reported that the man named John Robinson, who lived on
the premises, was likely to make trouble, and that as he himself was the
only Judge in the district it would be better to put the case into the
hands of some one else, and leave him free to hear it. Cunow therefore
asked George Woodruff to act as attorney, to which he agreed, requesting
that John Lawson be associated with him, which was done the following
year.

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