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From: brivas <>
Subject: Moravians
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 17:37:01 -0500

EMIGRANTS TO PENNSYLVANIA 1641-1819
Genealogical Publishing Co., Inc. Baltimore 1978

p. 33 "Moravian immigration to the British Colonies of North America
dates from the year 1735, when, in March, the ship Two Brothers , Capt.
Tompson, landed at Savannah, Georgia. (Note : the first Moravian to
come to America was George Boehnlech, in September of 1734, who
accompanied the Schwekfelders to Pennsylvania.) .... On February 16,
1736, the Simonds, Capt. Frank Cornish landed at Savannah the second
colony."
p. 34 "The Moravians, who had been branted by the Georgia turstees,
in 1734, a tract of 50 acres near Savannah, and in 1735, two lots 'in
the new town,' began to clear the land and erect dwellings. The
prospects of these small colonies, however, received a sudden check in
1737, for when the Spaniards of Florida endeavored to expel the English
from Georgia, the latter called upon the Moravians to join in taking up
arms against them. This they refused, having declared in London, 'that
they neither could nor would bear arms on anyh consideration,' and
eventually those who had not returned to Europe were transferred to
Pennsylvania, and the mission abandoned. The Moravian estates were
not sold until 1801."

Barbara Rivas

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