“Thirty-three thousand pounds were raised in London for the relief of the Saltzburgers.  Many of them settled in Georgia,—­colonists of the best description.  They called their settlement Ebenezer.  Whitfield, in 1738, was wonderfully pleased with their order and industry.  ’Their lands,’ he says, ’are improved surprisingly for the time they have been there, and I believe they have far the best crop of any in the colony.  They are blest with two such pious ministers as I have not often seen.  They have no courts of judicature, but all little differences are immediately and implicitly decided by their ministers, whom they look upon and love as their fathers.  They have likewise an orphan house, in which are seventeen children and one widow, and I was much delighted to see the regularity wherewith it is managed.’”

SOUTHEY’S Life of Wesley, Vol.  I. p. 98, note.

XVI.

With reference to these persecuted exiles, are the following lines of Thomson.

  “Lo! swarming southward on rejoicing suns
  New colonies extend’. the calm retreat
  Of undeserved distress, the better home
  Of those whom bigots chase from foreign lands;
  Such as of late an Oglethorpe has formed,
  And crowding round, the pleased Savannah sees.”
                                [Liberty, Part V.]

I give, also, an extract from the London Journal of the day.

“As the Trustees for settling Georgia are giving all proper encouragement for the Saltzburg emigrants to go over and settle there, some of the managers for those poor people have sent over to the Trustees from Holland, a curious medal or device, enchased on silver, representing the emigration of the poor Saltzburgers from their native country, which opens like a box, and in the inside contains a map of their country, divided into seventeen districts, with seventeen little pieces of historical painting, representing the seventeen persecutions of the primitive Christians; the whole being folded up in a very small compass, and is a most ingenious piece of workmanship.”

XVII.

SETTLEMENT OF THE MORAVIANS IN GEORGIA.

“In consequence of the oppression which they suffered in Bohemia, the United Brethren, or, as they are more commonly called, the Moravians, resolved to emigrate to the new Colony of Georgia in America, whither the Saltzburgers had recently gone.  With this purpose they applied to Count Zinzendorf, their spiritual guide, for his concurrence and assistance.  Accordingly, he made interest with the Trustees on their behalf, which, being favorably received, and a free passage offered, a small company of them set out from Herrnfurt in November, 1734.  They proceeded to London, where they found Mr. Spangenberg, who had nearly concluded every thing relative to their embarkation, with the Trustees, and to their accommodation and settlement, with General Oglethorpe.  A number of Saltzburgers were also about to emigrate; and three zealous ministers of the Church of England, Mr. John Wesley, together with his brother Charles, and Mr. Benjamin Ingham, went with them in the same ship.