Selected Families and Individuals
Notes
Tho. Web Jr.
Servant to Will Stephens, Esq..
Aarrived in the Georgia Colony 16 Jan. 1737-8.
Bound servant to the Trust, but made over to Mr. Stephens to make up the number of servants promised him.
Quitted May 1742.
Danl. Weisseger
Embarked 31 Oct. 1734; arrived in the Georgia Colony 28 Dec. 1734.
On his way to Philadelphia.
Elias Anne Wellen
Age 18, servant to Joseph Coles.
Embarked 6 Nov. 1732; arrived in the Georgia Colony 1 Feb. 1732-3. On the 1st ship load of Georgia colonists, The Charity.
Sent back to England.
Cha. Wheeler
Bookbinder.
Embarked 28 Sept. 1733; arrived in the Georgia Colony 14 Jan. 1733-4.
Settled at Skidaway.
Dead.
Eliz. Wheeler
Servant to Will. Bradley.
Embarked 20 Oct. 1735; arrived in the Georgia Colony Feb. 1735-6.
Richard. White
Hatter.
Embarked 14 Oct. 1735; arrived in the Georgia Colony Feb. 1735-6.
Lot 35S. in Frederica.
He was on 14 Oct. 1735 appointed to be bailif in case of vacancy.
Storekeeper at Frederica in Oct. 1738.
Dead Dec. 1740.
Geo. Whitefield
A.B. minister at Savannah.
Embarked 6 Jan. 1737-8; arrived in the Georgia Colony 7 May 1738.
In 27 Aug. 1738 he left the Colony with purpose to return.
A grant of 300 acres was made him in Savannah District for supporting an Orphan house 1739
Leonard Whiting
Apprentice to Will. Brownjohn.
Embarked 2 Dec. 1735; arrived in the Georgia Colony 2 Feb. 1735-6.
Out of his time.
John Caspar Wick
Shoemaker.
Embarked to the Georgia Colony 29 Mar. 1739.
Saltsburger, settled at Ebenezer.
Dead.
Maria Ewtch Willor
Age 21, single woman, Swiss.
Embarked 29 Dec. 1741; arrived in the Georgia Colony 4 Dec. 1741.
William Wise
Farmer.
Embarked 11 Sept. 1733; arrived in the Georgia Colony 16 Dec. 1733.
Settled on Hutchinsons Island and there, murdered in his bed 1 March 1733/4 by Nicholas White and Richard White..
Pet. Wright
Servant to Will. Bradley.
Embarked 20 Oct. 1735; arrived in the Georgia Colony Feb. 1735-6.
John Young
Servant.
Embarked 27 May 1737; arrived in the Georgia Colony 20 Nov. 1737.
Bartol Zand
Dyer & husbandman.
Embarked 31 Oct. 1734; arrived in the Georgia Colony 28 Dec. 1734.
Saltsburger, settled at Ebenezer.
Living 1738/9.
Mathias Zettler
Saltsburger.
Living 13 March 1738/9.
Paul Zeitraur
Carpenter.
Embarked 31 Oct. 1734; arrived in the Georgia Colony 28 Dec. 1734.
Saltsburger, settled at Ebenezer.
Living 13 March 1738/9.
Rupert Zeitraur
Husbandman.
Embarked 31 Oct. 1734; arrived in the Georgia Colony 28 Dec. 1734.
Saltsburger, settled at Ebenezer.
Living 13 March 1738/9.
Rupert Zimmerman
Husbandman.
Embarked 31 Oct. 1734; arrived in the Georgia Colony 28 Dec. 1734.
Saltsburger, settled at Ebenezer.
Living 13 March 1738/9.
Jo. Jacob Zuble
Saltsburger.
Living 13 March 1738/9.
Ambrose Zuble
Saltsburger.
Living 13 March 1738/9.
J. Andrew Zwiffler
M.D.
Embarked 14 Dec. 1733; arrived in the Georgia Colony 12 Mar. 1733-4.
Saltsburger, settled at Ebenezer and constable there in 1736.
John Regnier
From: Moravians in Georgia 1735-1740 by Adelaide L. Fries:
As they were robing Riedel for his burial, a young man came to the door, and asked if he could not make them some pewter spoons. In the conversations that followed it developed that he was a native of Switzerland, the son of a physician, and after his father's death he had sailed for Pennsylvania, intending there to begin the practice of medicine. But his fellow-passengers stole his books and everything he had, he was unable to pay for his transportation, and forced to sell his service for seven years as a redemptioner. At the end of five years he had become quite ill, and his master, having waited six months for his recovery, heartlessly turned him out, to live or die as the case might be. Instead of dying, his strength returned, and then his former master demanded 10 Pounds Pennsylvania currency, for his unexpired term, although only 5 Pounds had been paid for him, and he had served five years. The young man was obliged to promise to pay this, and Spangenberg encouraged him to push his spoon-making, in order to do it as speedily as possible. Meanwhile the Moravians were so much pleased with his appearance and speech, that they agreed to receive him into their company for as long as he chose to stay, and John Regnier soon became an important factor in their comfort. Spiritually he was somewhat at sea. At one time he had desired to be a hermit, and then he had drifted from one sect to another, seeking something which he could not find, but acquiring a medley of odd customs. Spangenberg advised him to turn his thoughts from men to God, learning from Him "what was better and higher, Faith, Love, Hope, etc.", and under the Moravian influence he gradually laid aside his unwise fancies, giving them encouragement to believe that he would eventually come into the clearer light, as they knew it. In material things John Regnier was of great assistance, owing to his ability to turn his hand to almost anything. The shoes of the party were badly torn, but though they had brought leather and tools from England none of them knew the cobbler's trade. John Regnier had never made a shoe, but he took it up, and soon provided for them all, and then he mended their clothing, and added new garments. He also showed much aptitude for nursing, and Spangenberg put him in charge of several cases. A man from a neighboring village sent word that he had severed an artery and could not check the bleeding, and asked for help. Regnier went to him, and was so successful in his treatment that in two weeks the man was entirely restored. Some one discovered a poor Scotchman, dying with dropsy, lying utterly neglected upon the floor of a miserable hut, and appeal was made to the Moravians to take him and care for him. They did so, moving him to one of their cabins, where they made him a bed, and Regnier nursed him until death ended his sufferings. Another man had high fever, and no friends, and him also the Moravians took, and cared for, the Trustee's agent furnishing food and medicine for the sick, but offering no recompense for the care they received.
Gottleig Demuth
January 1738, Quit the Georgia Colony and settled in Pennsylvania.
Gottlieb Demuth lived at several places, but finally married, and settled in the Moravian Congregation at Schoeneck.
John Hagan
May 18th, 1740, John Hagen arrived in Savannah. He had come over intending to go as missionary to the Cherokees, and his disappointment in finding that the Moravians had abandoned Georgia is another example of the enormous difficulty under which mission work was conducted in those days, when the most momentous events might transpire months before the authorities at home could be apprised of them. Hagen had become very ill on the way from Charleston to Savannah, and with none of his own people to turn to he bethought himself of Whitefield's offers of friendship, and went to his house. He was kindly received by those who were living there, and though he went down to the gates of death the portals did not open, and he rapidly regained his health. Visiting Irene he found only a few Indian women, for Tomochichi was dead, and the men were all on the warpath. The opportunity of going to the Cherokees seemed very doubtful, for there were none living nearer than three hundred miles, and distances looked much greater in the Georgia forests than in his own populous Germany. So he concluded to accept the kind offers of Whitefield's household, and stay with them, making himself useful in the garden, and doing such religious work as he was able. Several Germans living in the town, who had learned to like the Moravians, asked him to hold services for them, to which he gladly agreed.
He was much pleased with the prospect for work in Savannah, where the people had been greatly stirred by Whitefield's preaching, and he wrote to Herrnhut urging that two married couples be sent to help reap the harvest, a request warmly seconded by Whitefield, who had returned to Savannah on June 16th. Whitefield reported the Moravians busily engaged in erecting a Negro school-house for him in Pennsylvania, and told Hagen he would like to have the two couples come to assist him in carrying out his large plans for Georgia. But by the 14th of August this invitation had been withdrawn, Hagen had left Whitefield's house, and had been refused work on Whitefield's plantation, for fear that he might contaminate the Whitefield converts. The trouble arose over a discussion on Predestination, -- not the first or last time this has happened, -- and the two men found themselves utterly at variance, for Whitefield held the extreme Calvinistic view, while Hagen argued that all men who would might be saved. Hagen therefore went to the home of John Brownfield, who shared his views, and made him very welcome, and from there carried on his work among the residents of Savannah and Purisburg.
Whitefield returned to Pennsylvania in November, 1740, nursing his wrath against Hagen, and finding Boehler to be of the same mind, he peremptorily ordered the Moravians to leave his land. Neighbors interfered, and cried shame on him for turning the little company adrift in the depth of winter, and he finally agreed to let them stay for a while in the log cabin which was sheltering them while they were building the large stone house. The opportune arrival of Bishop Nitschmann and his company, and the purchase of the Bethlehem tract, soon relieved them from their uncomfortable position, and later the Nazareth tract was bought from Whitefield, and the work they had begun for him was completed for their own use.
Whitefield, in after years, rather excused himself for his first harshness toward the Moravians, but a letter written by him to a friend in 1742, is a good statement of the armed truce which existed among the great religious leaders of that day. "Where the spirit of God is in any great degree, there will be union of avail, tho' there may be difference in sentiments. This I have learnt, my dear Brother, by happy experience, and find great freedom and peace in my soul thereby. This makes me love the Moravian Brethren tho' I cannot agree with them in many of their principles. I cannot look upon them as willful deceivers, but as persons who hazard their lives for the sake of the Gospel. Mr. Wesley is as certainly wrong in some things as they, and Mr. Law as wrong also. Yet I believe both Mr. Law and Mr. Wesley and Count Zinzendorf will shine bright in Glory. I have not given way to the Moravian Brethren, nor any other who I thought were in the wrong, no, not for one hour. But I think it best not to dispute when there is no probability of convincing." Hagen remained in Savannah until February, 1742, when he went to Bethlehem, accompanied by Abraham Bueninger, of Purisburg, who entered the Moravian ministry in 1742, and labored among the Indians, the white settlers, and in the West Indies. Nine more residents of Georgia followed the Moravians to Bethlehem in 1745, John Brownfield, James Burnside and his daughter Rebecca, Henry Ferdinand Beck, his wife Barbara, their daughter Maria Christina, and their sons Jonathan and David, all of Savannah, and Anna Catharine Kremper, of Purisburg. All of these served faithfully in various important offices, and were valuable fruit of the efforts in Georgia. John Hagen was appointed Warden of the Nazareth congregation, when it was organized; and died at Shamokin in 1747.
Benj. Adams
Lot 222 in Savannah. He became possessed of his lot in April 1737, but neglects it & rents lot 78.
A Riotour in open court 20 Oct. 1737.
Run away.
Jo. Adams
In the Georgia Colony sometime between 1733 and 1746.
Adriche
Sevant to Isaac Camuche. She was at 1st servant to Richard Warren.
Hariet Agerner
Servant to Ja. Baillou.
Will. Aglionby , Esq.
Attorney.
Lot 109 in Savannah.
On 2 June 1736 100 acres was granted to him but he chose to dwell in Savannah and make mischief there. His lot in that town was ordered to be run out 4 May 1737. As he lived, so he died a profest Deist.
Lot vacant Feb. 1738-9.
Dead 23 Aug. 1738.
Mary Alban
Servant.
Arrived in the Georgia Colony 15 Mar. 1733-4.
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