The repairs of the vessel detained him here till the 15th of October, when they sailed.  They had a most perilous passage, and encountered violent storms; but on the third of December arrived opposite Deal; and the passengers went safe on shore.

III.  INGHAM had his station assigned him at Frederica; and there his prudence preserved him from the vexations with which his cherished companion was annoyed.  In behalf of that persecuted and dispirited friend, he went to Savannah, to inform John Wesley of the opposition of the people to his brother.  He tarried there to supply John’s place during his absence on the visit of sympathy and counsel, of mediation or rescue.  Returning to Frederica, he remained there till the 13th of May, when he accompanied Charles to Savannah, whither he went to receive the Indian traders on their coming down to take out their licenses.  He accompanied them to the upper Creeks; among whom he resided several months, and employed himself in making a vocabulary of their language, and composing a grammar.[1]

[Footnote 1:  SOUTHEY, I. 122, note; mention is also made of him in CRANZ’S History of the United Brethren, p. 228.]

On the 24th of February, 1737, it was agreed that he should go to England, and “endeavor to bring over, if it should please God, some of their friends to strengthen their hands in his work."[1] By him John Wesley wrote to Oglethorpe, who had sailed for England, and to Dr. Brady’s associates, who had sent a library to Savannah.

[Footnote 1:  MOORE’S Lives of the Wesleys, I. 315.]

Ingham is mentioned by Whitefield, in terms of high regard, as fellow-laborer with the Wesleys, and “an Israelite indeed.”

IV.  DELAMOTTE remained, from the first, with John Wesley at Savannah.  He kept a school, in which he taught between thirty and forty children to read, write, and cast accounts.  “Before public worship on the afternoon of the Lord’s day, he catechized the lower class, and endeavored to fix some things of what was said by the Minister in their understandings as well as their memories.  In the morning he instructed the larger children."[1]

[Footnote 1:  Here is a prototype of the modern Sunday-schools.]

He returned to England in the Whitaker, Captain Whiting; the ship that brought out Mr. Whitefield, June 2d, 1738.  “The good people lamented the loss of him, and great reason had they to do so; and went to the waterside to take a last farewell.”

V. GEORGE WHITEFIELD was the intimate friend of the Wesleys and of Ingham; and he states, in his Journal, that when they were in Georgia he received letters from them; and that their description of the moral condition of the Colony affected his heart powerfully, and excited a strong desire to join them, to assist them in the work in which they were occupied, and become “a partaker with them in the afflictions of the gospel.”  Such an undertaking was suited to his energetic and enterprizing character;