The  following  resume  from  records  shows  to  what  extent  the  personnel  of  the  Georgia
colony  entered  into  that  of  Bethlehem  and  what  became  of  the  rest.  It  also  clears  up  some
confusion  and  error  in  sundry  printed  statements.  Leaving  out  of  the  count  Spangenberg,
Nitschmann  and  Boehler — also  John  Francis  Regnier  who  went  from  Pennsylvania,  was
there  1735-38,  later  missionary  in  Surinam,  then  after  his  return  to  Pennsylvania,  an  enemy
of  the  Moravians— thirty-seven  persons  emigrated  from  Europe  to  Georgia.  Eight  died
there:  173S,  Frederick  Riedel ;  1736,  Matthias  Boehnisch,  Jacob  Frank,  Henry  Rascher,
Rosina  Haberecht ;    1737,  George  Haberland  and  the  boy  John  Michael  Schober,  all  at


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nection  with  their  brethren  and  to  locate  with  them  if  they  colonized
in  Pennsylvania.
Before  any  word  from  Europe  reached  them  they  were,  without
suspecting  it,  led  through  the  instrumentahty  of  George  Whitefield
to  the  neighborhood  in  which  their  settlement  would  at  last  be
founded.  During  the  voyage  from  Savannah,  Whitefield  determined,
as  his  financial  agent  William  Seward  states  in  his  journal,  to  establish
"a  Negro  school  in  Pennsylvania  where  he  proposed  to  take  up
land  in  order  to  settle  a  town  for  the  reception  of  such  English  friends
whose  heart  God  should  incline  to  come  and  settle  there."  On  board
ship  the  evangelist  wrote  to  the  Secretary  of  the  English  Society  for
the  Furtherance  of  the  Gospel  in  Foreign  Parts :  "To  me  Pennsylvania
seems  to  be  the  best  Province  in  America  for  such  an  undertaking.
