PART I

Outward Correspondence

A Monsieur

MONSIEUR Urlsperger Ministre de l’Evangile de Dieu à Augsbourg en Suabia.

[The following marginal note appears to the left of the above bill] This Bill drawn on Mr. Münch and enclosed in the following Letter to Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg.

Bartlet’s Buildings 13 June 1732.

Reverend Sir: Sir John Phillips desires me to send his humble Service to You with the Bill of Exchange above on Mr. Münch for 50 £ Sterling drawn by Messrs. Mayer and Company which he desires may be laid out in the best manner You can towards the Relief of our distressed Brethren the Protestants who are banished from Saltzburg Arch-Bishoprick, and that You would be so kind as to signify when it comes to Your hands, with an Account of the Number now actually banished from the said Arch-Bishoprick, How many if not all of them are like to be received into His Prussian Majesty’s Dominions, and to what places they that do not go into the Prussian Dominions intend to retire, and what further Number may be expected to follow those already Banished.

Our Good Friend Mr. Ziegenhagen is gone with His Majesty to Hanover in Order to take the Benefit of the Waters at Pyrmont for his health, but before he went he Communicated to the Society an Extract of Your Letter of the 14 April N.S. to him Signifying that the Number of Exiles was like to reach to 40,000, which is almost double the Number that Your former Letters mentioned if this be a mistake the Society would be glad Your next may rectify it.

And a few Guineas more passed through Mr. Ziegenhagen’s hands, all which the Society will be glad to hear gets safe to Your hands, for the Seasonable Relief of our Saltzburg Brethren, whose Patience and Courage may God Almighty continue to Support by Succour from the Protestants far and near ’till they are all more happily provided for in this world than they could expect to be in their Native Country under a State of Persecution.

I hope you Received the Society’s Packet sent to You in August, recommended to the Care of Mr. Ziegenhagen. I am sorry to tell You that our Friend Mr. Martini¹ very much wants his health, which he has many Years usefully employed in our German and East India Mission Correspondence²; may God restore Mr. Ziegenhagen and him in due time to the Society and long continue You with Your Protestant Brethren at Augsbourg the faithful distributors of Charity, as well as dispensers of Spiritual Consolation to all those of our Brethren of Saltzbourg whose distress may oblige them to come in the Way of Your Relief is the Wish of the Society as well as of

Reverend Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg.

[Copied here a bill of exchange for 40£, dated 23 June 1732, otherwise identical in content and wording with previous bill, and with same marginal note]

Bartlet’s Buildings London, 23 June 1732.

Reverend Sir: My last was of the 13th Current accompanying a Bill of Exchange for 50 £ Sterling drawn by Messrs. Mayer and Company which I hope You have Received long before this, which accompanys another Bill for Forty Pounds Sterling drawn likewise by Messrs. Mayer and Company on Mr. Münch the same Person on whom the former Bill for 50 £ was drawn. This is a Benefaction from the Worthy Sir Richard Ellis Baronet which I Yesterday Received from Sir John Philipps towards relieving the most distressed Objects of Charity among the Protestant Exiles from Saltzburg who likewise paid to me the 50 £ which produced the last Bill, but who that was the Benefaction of, I cannot inform You; whoever it came from Sir John and Sir Richard both will be glad to hear You have Received the value of each Bill and what they produce in Florins or other Germany Money, there being as Mr. Mayer informs me no settled Exchange between London and Augsbourg, it is not doubted Mr. Münch will be as favourable as he can, considering how the Produce of it is to be applied nor need I to mention that it will be a particular Satisfaction to the Worthy Persons abovementioned and other Benefactors through their hands that the Protestant Sufferers are pleased to remember them in their Prayers to God, when they give thanks to the Fountain of all Goodness for the Effects of their Good Offices which You need not doubt will be still continued in Favour of our Suffering Brethren. May God reward Your Zeal to serve them on this Occasion and furnish You with the Supplies necessary to facilitate their Removal or Settlement in such Protestant Country, as the Providence of God may lead Them to is the wish of the Society here as well as of

Reverend and Dear Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

I hope Mr. Ziegenhagen is got well to Pyrmont tho’ I have not yet heard from him.

I am glad to tell you that Mr. Martini is much better.

To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg.

[Copies of two bills of exchange like the previous ones, one for 102 £ 2 s (money received of James Vernon, Esq.); the other for 37 £ 17 s, both dated 30 June 32.]

Bartlet’s Buildings 30 June 1732.

Reverend Sir: I hope You have Received by this time my Letter of the 13th Current enclosing a Bill of Exchange for 50 £ Sterling by order of Sir John Philipps Baronet towards relieving the Distressed Protestants of Saltzbourg, and that You will ere this comes to Your hand receive mine of the 23rd Current enclosing another Bill of Sir John Philipps for 40 £ Sterling for the same Charitable Purpose. I am now by his Order to send the above Bill for 37 £ 17 s for the same Good Purpose this and the former Bills being all drawn by Messrs. Mayer and Company on Mr. Christian Münch at Augsbourg, of the Payment and Distribution of which Sir John will be glad to see some signification from You by Letter as soon as it may be with Your Convenience for the satisfaction of those Pious Persons who have sent these tokens of their Compassion to their Suffering Brethren. I am now Glad to add that the Honourable James Vernon Esq. one of the Clerks of his Majesty’s most Honourable Privy Council has this Week paid to me 102 £ 2 s — d Sterling with a Desire that it might be remitted to You for for the Relief of the Saltzbourg Protestants in the same Manner as I had sent the Remittances from Sir John Philipps, and they both entirely approve of Your Application of part of these Remittances for relieving the Saltzburg Protestants who are admitted into the Hospitals at Augsbourg or elsewhere by reason of Sickness or other infirmities as being in some Respects the Great objects of Charity. The Society and They send their Compliments to You and thanks for all Your good Offices to these their persecuted Brethren and will be glad to be informed particularly the Numbers that have hitherto actually left the Saltzbourg Dominions and in what Places they are dispersed. I have here enclosed Messrs. Mayer’s and Company Bill for the 102 £ 2 s Sterling abovementioned, and hope more Remittances may be made [hence] as God shall enable their Friends who are daily Soliciting Relief for the Saltzburg Protestants. May God Almighty prosper the Endeavours of the Evangelick Body³ at Ratisbon for obtaining some Mitigation at least of the Oppressions of their and our Brethren, and may signify what Success they have had or are like to have in their Application to His Imperial Majesty in behalf of those who have not yet quitted the Arch Bishoprick of Saltzburg and what number there may be of them who are like to become Exiles hereafter and whether they are permitted to carry off their Effects. I am Reverend Sir etc.

To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg.

[Copied here a bill of exchange for 208 £ 16 s, dated 14 July 32, otherwise identical to that on p. 1 and with same marginal note]

Bartlet’s Buildings 14 July 1732.

Reverend Sir: This covers a Bill of Exchange from Messrs. Mayer and Company on Mr. Münch for 208 £ 16 s Sterling towards relieving the Saltzburg Protestants at the Desire of Sir John Philipps Baronet and the other Gentlemen concerned as Receivers of the Benefactions for that Charitable use concerning the Distribution of which together with the former Remittances they will be glad to be favoured with some Account from You, because Your Account of the encrease of the Number of the Pious Confessors and the hardships they chearfully undergo for the sake of Religion when more known here may furnish their Friends in England with fresh Arguments to solicite the Charities of well disposed Persons.

This is the fifth Remittance which has passed through my hands, and it will be a Satisfaction to the Society, and the worthy Gentlemen who are pleased to be receivers of Charities for this Service to be informed particularly when each Remittance has come to Your hands as a Voucher for their Account hereafter if any Benefactor should be desirous to know that their Charity was Received and distributed by You.

The Society are sensible of the Great trouble which this Relief must draw upon You, but the Pleasure it must give You, as it would any Good man, to be the Instrument of Providence in assisting his distressed Brethren in the Case of the Saltzburg Exiles will I doubt not abundantly compensate that trouble.

Give me leave to refer You to my former Letters for such Enquiries as the Society and Your Friends here would be glad to receive some Answer to at the same time I assure You that I am Reverend Sir Your most Obedient humble Servant

Henry Newman

London 25 July 1732.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg.

Reverend and very Worthy Sir: The Gentlemen of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge having taken under their Consideration the Great and Good Work, which You and Your fellow-labourers have been for some time employed in (Viz.) that of Administring Spiritual as well as Bodily Food to the Numerous Protestant Exiles from the Country of Saltzburg, think ourselves obliged in the first Place to offer up our Thanks and Praises to Almighty God for opening the Eyes of these distressed People to see the Dangerous Errors and Superstitions of the Popish Persuasion and to incline their Hearts rather to quit and forsake their All, than to sin against him by wounding and Violating their Consiences.

Happy Sufferers, Glorious Resolution! the Genuine Fruit of a true saving Faith, wrought in their Souls by the Influence of the Holy Spirit.

In the next Place Sir we desire You to accept our Sincere Acknowledgements for the Account which You was pleased to send to the Reverend Mr. Ziegenhagen of the Manifold hardships and Sufferings of these poor persecuted Creatures, and of several other Occurrences and Proceedings relating to them, which Relation is drawn up by Yourself in a way so edifying and Affecting that ’tis to be hoped few serious Christians will be able to read it without feeling in their Hearts some tender Motions towards a People whose Pious, meek, and resigned behaviour under all their Difficulties and Trials is very exemplary and amazing in so corrupt and degenerate an Age as this is. And again Sir we are to bless and magnify Almighty God for disposing the Minds of Protestant Kings and Princes and other States, together with many of their Good Subjects to Commiserate and relieve the Necessities of these faithful Confessors. May it be the good Pleasure of God to strengthen them more and more, and to establish them in the true Faith, and to make them ever mindful of his Mercies to them.

As we have reason to be abundantly satisfied of Your unwearied Labours for the inward and outward Advantage of these Exiles, so we are in no doubt at all of Your discreet and Prudent Management in the Distribution of all such Charities as already have been and (through the Goodness of God) may further be paid into Your Hands, a particular Account of which Sums as have been hitherto received, with the Disposition of them, when You can find time to draw it out, will be very gratefull to us the Trustees, and a great satisfaction to all the Contributors. That God Almighty would be graciously pleased to assist and prosper You in this noble undertaking and continue You a happy Instrument of Promoting his Glory and the further Benefit and Good of these poor Exiles, and crown You hereafter with an everlasting Reward, is the unfeigned Desire and Prayer of

Reverend and Worthy Sir   Your very Affectionate and much obliged humble Servants   John Philipps[,] Ja. Vernon[,] Wm. Tillard

P.S. It is our Opinion Sir that if You could find leisure to acquaint Us with some other material Passages of the Sufferings and Behaviour of these Exiles it might (thro’ the Divine Blessing) very much serve our present Design. Since writing of this, Yours of the 17th July 1732 to Mr. Newman is come to hand, and was read this Morning at the Society with great satisfaction, who return You their most hearty Thanks.

The Following P.S. was wrote by Mr. Newman to the foregoing Letter.

Bartlet’s Buildings 25 July 1732.

Reverend Sir:

P.S.: Mr. Arch-Deacon Denne,⁴ Mr. Hoare, and Mr. Ziegenhagen the other Receivers of Benefactions to the Saltzbourg Sufferers at the Desire of the Society, are all out of Town or they would also have joined in Signing this Letter. I hope You Received mine of the 30th of June with the Remittances of

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg.

[Copied here a bill of exchange for 121 £ 8 s, dated 28 July 1732, otherwise identical to that on p. 1 and with same marginal note].

Bartlet’s Buildings 28 July 1732.

Reverend Sir: My last was of the 25 Current accompanying a Letter from all our Trustees then in Town, to which I beg leave to refer You. I am glad now by Order of Sir John Philipps who is one of them to send the Bill above for 121 £ 8 s Sterling in Compliance with Your Desire of the 17th Current N.S.[.] the Society and those Gentlemen who are pleased to be Trustees for the Benefactions collected for our Brethren the Saltzburgers, Exiles for the sake of the Protestant Religion, are so well pleased with the Account You give of them, that they have ordered an Extract of Your Letter to be printed for the Satisfaction of those who have already contributed, or shall hereafter Contribute to the Relief of those Pious Confessors. May God increase their Number, and may they never want Succours from their Protestant Brethren in other Countries. You mention a Benefaction of 2,000 Florins from two Foreign Protestant Congregations, but don’t mention of what Country, the Society will be glad in Your next to know from whence that Remittance came, and that You would continue to signify what Numbers of Exiles leave the Country of Saltzburg, and into what parts of Germany or Europe they are dispersed or designed to be sent to. What is mentioned in a Letter You enclosed concerning a Commotion in Bohemia wants to be explained, and whether those that are oppressed there on Account of Religion may not be relieved by Application to the Evangelick Body at Ratisbonne as well as those in the Arch Bishoprick of Saltzbourg, they that are acquainted with the Constitution of the Empire and the Treaties under which the Protestants claim Protection are best Judges.⁵ May God direct and prosper all Your good Offices for the Service of those who Suffer for the sake of Truth and the Christian Profession is the wish of

Reverend Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg.

[Copied here three bills of Exchange for 64 £ 11 s 6d; 63 £ 1 s (money received of James Vernon); 100 £ (money received of William Tillard), all three dated 8 Aug. 1732. Otherwise identical to that on p. 1 with same marginal note].

Bartlet’s Buildings, London, 8 August 1732.

Reverend Sir: I Received by last Post Your Acceptable Letter of the 1st Current N.S. and upon Communicating it to the Society, the Receivers undermentioned have ordered me to procure Bills for the several Sums against their Names mentioned Respectively Viz.

for which Sums there are herewith sent 3 Bills of Exchange drawn by Good Mr. Mayer free of L’Agio as the worthy Mr. Münch is pleased to allow the Payment on his part; May God reward them for it. I congratulate Mr. Münch on the Honour His Imperial Majesty has lately conferred him, may he long enjoy it to the Glory of the true Fountain of Honour. A further Account of any Motions in Bavaria and Carinthia in favour of Protestantism will be very acceptable, and also of what is doing or done at Schemnitz in Hungaria.

My last was of the 28 of July accompanying a Bill for 121 £ 8 s — d which I doubt not but You will take Notice of when it comes to Your hands together with those sent before it, which I don’t mention here, not doubting but they will all go safe to Your hands; and it is desired that You will be pleased to return separate Receipts for all these Sums as You have hitherto done for the Satisfaction of my Masters that they are duly remitted to You.

I hope in the midst of Your present Hurry You will not neglect Your Health of which You make so good use for the Service of our Common Brethren. Mr. Martini continues mending and sends his humble Service and best wishes to You at the same time I subscribe my Self.

Reverend and Dear Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg.

[Copied here a Bill for 100 £, dated 18 August 1732, otherwise identical to that on p. 1 and with same marginal note].

Reverend Sir: I Received Your Letter on the 12th Current N.S. on the Day of the last Meeting of the Society, to whom (Mr. Martini being Present) the Contents were immediately Communicated, and were very acceptable for the Piety and Patience expressed by the Protestant Exiles under their hard usage. In Consideration of which Sir John Philipps has desired me to bespeak a Bill of Exchange for One hundred Pounds Sterling to be sent by this Post, which I have accordingly done and it is here enclosed being drawn by Messrs. Mayer and Company as usual on Mr. Munch, to whom the Society think themselves very much obliged for the Priviledge allowed them in these Remittances of an Exemption from L’Agio, for which may God reward him, and You also for Your Care and Zeal in making a faithful Distribution of the Charities remitted.

Your last mentions a more perfect Account to follow it, of the Numbers already come out of Saltzburg, and expected still to come out under the Character of Exiles on Account of Religion, which the Society will be glad to receive, together with an Account to what parts of Germany or other parts of Europe they intend to dispose of themselves, whether it be true that His Majesty of Prussia has given Directions for receiving all that will go into His Dominions, and to what parts thereof they are sent? what Trade or Profession the Exiles are generally bred to? and what proportion do the Children make, with the Grown Persons? with such other Observations as Your own Prudence may Suggest will be very acceptable.

I made Your Compliments to the Society, and Trustees, Collectors of Charity for the Saltzburgers, who desire me to return theirs, at the same time I assure You of being

Reverend Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 8 September 1732.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg.

Reverend Sir: My last was of the 18th August enclosing a Bill of Exchange from Mr. Mayer and Company for One hundred Pounds drawn on Monsieur Munch by order of Sir John Philipps as a further Remittance towards relieving the Protestant Exiles from Saltzburg: since when I have received Your Letters of the 18th and 25th of August with the two enclosed extracts of Letters from Ratisbon, and also Your Favour of the 1st September N.S. with the 3 enclosed Receipts for Messrs. Philipps, Vernon, and Tillard, all which have been communicated to the Society, and they thank You for Your Care in applying the Remittances from hence for relieving the Confessors from Saltzburg.

I am also in the Name of the Society to desire You would in the most Respectful manner give their Thanks to good Monsieur Munch for his ready Payment of all their Bills free of L’Agio, for which they hope God will recompence him, both in this and the next World.

In Answer to Your Enquiry about relieving Proselytes from the Church of Rome out of the Money remitted to You, the Society are of Opinion they cannot apply any of the Contributions paid to them for relieving the Saltzburg Protestants, toward relieving such Proselytes, except they come from the Arch-Bishoprick of Saltzburg professing themselves Protestants.

Care will be taken not to Print anything here which may expose You or Your Friends for the Good Offices they are continually doing to these Pious Exiles or to any others that are or may be inclined to embrace the Protestant Religion, which the Society hope God will establish in his Good Time through the World, to the utter Extirpation of all Anti Christianism and Idolatry, as well in the Romish as the Mahometan and Pagan Parts, and whenever this is done, no doubt it will be in such a Manner that both Jews and Infidels will be obliged to confess that the Finger of God has accomplished it.

In the mean time as we daily pray that the Kingdom of God may come so all Good Men will rejoice to be any wise Instrumental in the Advancement of it.

The Society doubt not of Your Prudent and Faithful Application of the Money remaining in Your hands to the purpose for which it was remitted, and tho’ I have no Authority to desire You to send any of the Exiles (that may hereafter be obliged to leave Saltzburg for the sake of Religion) this way, yet there is reason to believe if it were not for the Greatness of the Expence that would attend their Transportation that they would be welcome to the worthy Gentlemen concerned in the Undertaking mentioned in the Enclosed Print,⁶ which they themselves have published to make known their Design; His Majesty’s Gracious Approbation so far as to incorporate them by Royal Charter, and a Grant of a considerable Tract of Land in a very happy Climate will in all likelihood soon enable them to make a good Provision for any Industrious People that shall transport themselves thither at their own Expence.

I made Your Compliments to the Society, who desire You would accept theirs while I Subscribe myself

Reverend Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

N.B. 1 Printed Paper was enclosed in the Letter above containing some Account of the Designs of the Trustees for Settling the Colony of Georgia in America.

Bartlet’s Buildings London 15 September 1732.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg.

Reverend Sir: My last was of the 8th Current O.S. Since which I am favoured with Yours of the 8th Current N.S. the Contents of which have been Communicated to the Society and they thank You for them, as Sir John Philipps does particularly for the Receit of the last 100 £ remitted to You. In my last I Took the Liberty to cover to You a Printed Account published here by the Trustees for Settling the New Colony of Georgia on the South Borders of South Carolina; which as I then signified was not designed for any invitation of the Exiles from Saltzburg.

And as I have no Authority to give them any Invitation, I desire You will please not to construe it as such, it being represented here that His Majesty the King of Prussia has invited all that will go into His Dominions to a happy Settlement which all that wish well to the Distressed Exiles must rejoice at.

My most humble Service to Good Mr. Münch, and thanks for all his Good Offices to these Pious Confessors, I have as You desired communicated Your last Letters to Mr. Mayer who I doubt not will signify his Thanks to You for the Sight of them.

May God continue to enable You to assist these poor People, and long make You an Instrument for the Advancement of his Glory in the World is the sincere wish of

Reverend Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

P.S.  Please to continue Your Account of the Motions of the Saltzburgers and other Inhabitants in Your Parts and to what parts of the World or Europe they are Generally disposed.

[Copied here a Bill of Exchange for 50 £ dated 13th October 1732, otherwise identical to that on p. 1].

Bartlet’s Buildings London 13th October 1732.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg.

Reverend Sir: My last was of the 15th September which I hope You have received together with mine of the 8th of the same Month, though I have had none from You since that of the 25 September N.S. I am now directed to inform You that there has been a Conference here between the Gentlemen [Trustees] empowered by His Majesty to make a new Settlement in Georgia in South Carolina, and the Gentlemen of this Society [S.P.C.K.] concerning the most effectual Method of relieving the Distresses of the Persecuted Protestants of Saltzburg, that the Gentlemen of both Societies are of Opinion that this would best be done by Settling them in Georgia because they will there be put immediately⁷ into Possession of Land which will belong to themselves and their Posterity for ever, and will there enjoy all the Rights and Priviledges, Religious and Civil of English-born Subjects, and likewise that the Gentlemen have come to a Resolution to apply some of the Contributions which they shall receive to this Purpose if it shall be agreeable to the Poor People.

But before You make these their Resolutions known, they desire You would please to inform me whether You Judge such a a Proposal would be agreable to the poor Sufferers? When You think any of them may be ready to set forward on such a Design? and what numbers You apprehend may be willing to embrace these offers. The Gentlemen apprehend that they have great Reason to hope they shall be able to receive, transport, and Settle a Competent Number of Families by the next Spring; but of this You will be more fully informed when they shall have known from You how acceptable these Proposals in General may be and in what Manner received.

If they are well accepted You will then have time enough to consider of proper Persons to go with such as shall Settle in America as their Pastor and Catechists, and You are desired to inform the Society if You shall know of any whom You can recommend for those Offices. One Qualification which is Judged very necessary for those purposes is an Acquaintance with the English Tongue, since they will Settle there with many English Families, and it is to be wished that they may be incorporated with them as soon as possible.

The first Embarkation for this New Colony is now in such forwardness that it is expected to Sail the beginning of next Month, and will consist of 70 English Families.

With regard to the manner of Your making such Enquires as are necessary in order to give me the Informations beforementioned I need not Suggest that they should be done with all convenient Caution and Privacy. I am but too well acquainted with Your Discretion and Prudence to think You need such an Intimation.

Sir John Philipps has desired me to add to the Fund in Your Hands the Bill of 50 £ Sterling as a Benefaction from Mr. Hollis of this City,⁸ drawn as usual on Mr. Munch, to whom I beg my humble Service may be acceptable, and that You may be assured that I am

Reverend Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

You will please to return a Receit as usual for the enclosed Remittance when received. Mr. Ziegenhagen I am glad to tell You is returned from Germany very much improved in his Health.

Bartlet’s Buildings 24th October 1732.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg.

Reverend and Dear Sir: I Received Your Favour of the 6th Current N.S. and the Translation of it being this Day communicated to the Society, they thank You for Your Letter and the other Papers accompanying it, and what You mention of the Depositions the Prisoners have made, though they may be too Bulky to come by the Post, yet if they contain things necessary to be known for the Service of the Exiles, they will be glad to receive the Information, and to make them less bulky You can get them transcribed in a small hand, which may perhaps reduce Your 12 or 15 Sheets to half or less, but let that be as it will, don’t spare any Expence that You think necessary for Their Service who forsake all for the sake of Truth, and the Enjoyment of that Liberty of Conscience which every Man living has a Right to, in Proportion to the Light it Pleases God to give him.

If any of the Berchtolsgaden Subjects or Tirnbergers are Permitted to transport Themselves beyond Sea, and You signify beforehand their Inclination, and what Numbers of them are disposed to go, according to the Hints mentioned in my last of the 13th Current they need not doubt of being welcome to all the Assistance which their Friends here can give to facilitate their Transportation to a Country where it is hoped they will never meet with Persecution, but a quite Different Usage to what they have in their Native Country.

My humble Service always attends Good Mr. Münch, and I beg You to be assured that I am

Reverend and Dear Sir   Your most humble Servant
Henry Newman

Mr. Ziegenhagen I have just now parted with, who desires me to send You his Compliments with an Assurance that he has begun a long Letter in Answer to Your 3 Letters which he has Received from You. That his stay was so short in Germany, and always in Motion, that the Waters he went thither to Drink for his health, he is obliged to drink here which deprives him of the Pleasure of being so Punctual in his Correspondence with You as he wishes he could be, but hopes his long Letter when You receive it will make You Satisfaction. My last enclosed a Bill of 50 £ from Sir John Philipps which I hope You have Received.

Bartlet’s Buildings. 21st November 1732.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg.

Reverend Sir: My last was of the 24th of October which I hope You have Received, as I have Yours of the 3rd and 10th of November N.S. acknowledging the Receit of mine of the 13th of October wherein there was a Proposition made of so much Consequence for the Relief of our Persecuted Brethren, that when I laid this Day a Translation of Your said Letters and Papers, accompanying them, before the Society, they ordered me to recommend it to You in the most Pressing manner to favour me with as Speedy and Particular an Answer as You can, Every Day discovering more an earnest desire in the Benefactors to the Protestant Exiles from Saltzburg, that some of these Exiles may become His Majesty’s in Georgia South of South Carolina, being a large Tract of fine Land between two large Rivers in a Temperate Climate, capable of a vast variety of Productions fit for the Benefit of Trade and Comfort of Life; whither a Ship Load of Artificers of all kinds necessary for establishing a New Colony are gone last Week; amply provided with all Materials to prepare the Country for the Reception of any indigent distressed Protestants that may be disposed to follow them from hence or any other Part of the World and to render the Establishment more effectual, a worthy Member of Parliament one of the Trustees for Settling that new Colony [Oglethorpe] is gone a Volunteer in the same ship to direct the first Scheme for Settling Towns and Villages therein with proper Instructions for building Churches, Schools etc. of what may make the Inhabitants florish to all Generations.

Some of the laborious Tirnbergers would have been exceeding welcome to that new Colony for the Service they might have done to themselves and their Neighbours by raking wealth out of the Bowels of the Earth, but since they all seem to be disposed of in Germany the Exiles from Berchtolsgaden and their Neighbours will find infinite Scope to improve their Art of Turnery Ware etc. on the materials which that Country abounds with and when once You Favour me with a Particular Answer to the Proposition of the 13th of last Month, nothing will be wanting in the Power of the Society to facilitate the Transportation of a Competent Number by a Ship that may be provided for them, when the Number inclined to go thither shall be known. But as I hinted before, this is to be signified to them, and by You to me in the most Prudent manner to avoid giving umbrage of Offence to any of His Majesty’s good Allies, who don’t delight in Persecuting their Subjects for the sake of that Religion which their Consciences lead’em to Profess.

To avoid giving this Offence the Society have been as sparing as they could of Publishing in Print what You have Communicated to them, further than was absolutely necessary for the Satisfaction of those who have been and are still inclined to be further Benefactors of them, of which I have therefore covered to You the only Print which they have Published since that I sent to You of the 17th of July last; beside which there are weekly and almost daily Published in our News Papers concerning the Saltzburgers from the Foreign Papers, which are done without the Privity of the Society and are undoubtedly for the most Part known to You therefore I don’t send them. However of these I send You two of our daily Papers of the 28 June last, and 15 November Current with remarkable Accounts from Ratisbonne to let You see how by one means or other the Publick here are daily informed of what Passes relating to the Saltzburgers from other hands than the Society, which makes it the less necessary for them to appear in it.

Your Worthy Correspondent at Ratisbon [J. von Reck] is I hope raised up by Providence to do many good Offices to these faithful Sufferers, may it please God still to bless his endeavours, and though I have not the honour to be known to him, let my humble Service be made acceptable to him from

Reverend and Dear Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

Sir John Philipps sends his humble Service to You with Mr. Zeigenhagen, Mr. Martini and the rest of Your Friends here are well. My humble Service to Good Mr. Münch. I have not received your Packet in a Roll sent Franco to Amsterdam 28 October last.

Enclosed in the foregoing Letter to Mr. Urlsperger.

The Whitehall Evening Post of 16 September 1732. Daily Courant—28 June 1732. Daily Courant—15 November 1732.

Bartlet’s Buildings. London 19 December 1732.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg.

Reverend Sir: My last was of the 21st of November since which I have received Yours of the 27th November N.S. and acquainted the Society with the Contents of it, as soon as I could get it translated.

In answer to which the Society observe that You repeat what You formerly mentioned as Your own opinion of the aversion of the Saltzburgers to cross the Seas, but You don’t signify whether You have confered with them upon it, and that what You now write is their Sentiments upon the offer mentioned in my Letter of the 13th October last and notwithstanding their supposed unwillingness to go into different Countries in separate Bodies, You now signify that the Tirnbergers have accepted the invitation by the States General to come into Holland, from whence they are informed that about 5000 Germans of the Palatinate were Shipped off for America last Summer.

The Society are glad to hear the Berchtolsgaders have an expectation of a Settlement to their Satisfaction. The Society do not think it proper to invite the Subjects of any Prince to leave their Country by the Prospect or Promise of Temporal Advantages untill they have declared their intention and obtained leave from their Prince to depart, but when that is done, they think it right to let them know that Great-Britain has opened an Azylum to receive People who are driven out of their Country for the sake of their Religion.

The Situation of Georgia and the Advantages they are to enjoy there I have already acquainted You with in my Letter of the 21st of November last, and other Preceeding Letters; Monsieur Pury a Swiss published last Summer a small Pamphlet of 4½ Sheets in French Sold at Neufchatel and St. Sulpy, under the Title of Description Abrogée de l’Etat present de la Caroline Meridionale nouvelle Edition avec des Eclaircissemens by which a Judgment may be made of the Climate and Soil of Georgia joining to that Province, upon Publishing which Account several Swiss Families went last Summer to South Carolina⁹ and

In Consequence of an Expectation that some of the Saltzburg Exiles would be inclined to go to Georgia, the Benefactions to them have been considerably augmented, and the Benefactors have generally appropriated their Charity to be applied to such of them as shall become Subjects of His Majesty of Great-Britain in Georgia, for which reason the Society don’t think themselves at Liberty to apply the Contributions made to them, otherwise than they have been appropriated by the Charitable Benefactors.

The Society have ordered me to acquaint You that it is their opinion that whenever any of the Exiles shall be engaged or declare themselves ready to become the Subjects of any other State than Great-Britain it will from that time be the Concern of that State to provide for them.

In Consequence of which they desire that what remains in Your hands of the Contributions that have been remitted to You from the Trustees may not be otherwise employed than for the Relief of such distressed Protestant Emigrants as having left their Country for their Religion are willing to become Subjects of Great-Britain in the Colony of Georgia, except where any that are not engaged by any State have a Settlement yet to seek, in which Case they leave it to Your discretion to relieve their present Necessities.

In Answer to Your Enquiries, the Society have directed me to acquaint You that the Collections here are undertaken by several of their Members at the particular request of the Society, and carried on by them in a private manner being moved to it by their Christian Zeal and Compassion for Assisting their Brethren under Persecution.

There has been no General Collection throughout the Kingdom because nothing has been done in it by Publick Authority.

The Society were not a little surprized that a distinction should come from abroad between the Presbyterians and the Members of the Established Church concerning a Common Act of Christian Charity in promoting which both have concurred without any such distinction at home.

The Abstract of a Letter from Your Friend at Ratisbon is a Melancholy Proof of the cruel disposition of the Papists who will not let the Persecuted Protestants go ’till they expect from the Rigour of the Season many of them must Perish.

Your last Letter under cover to Mr. Mayer cost 5 s Postage and Your former in Proportion, but if You please for the future to send Your Letters directly to me they will save the charge of the cover, and come a day or two sooner to my hands.

Dear Sir: You will excuse in regard to my hurry in other Business, the Liberty I have taken to write to You as above by my Clerks hand;¹⁰ In answer to Your favour of the 27th November, I have now received Your favour of the 11th December N.S. and am ordered to send You the thanks of the Society for it, to which I hope soon to be able to send You a Particular Answer.

I am   Reverend Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

Before Sealing I receive Your Role of Papers via Amsterdam and a worthy Member of the Society being present at the opening of it desires to know the price of two Such Screw Medals as were sent in it, and how they may be conveyed to me. I shall acquaint Sir John Philipps with Your kind present to him, and thank You for that You have sent to me which I shall carefully preserve (in memory of Your Zeal for the Saltzburgers) among the Curiosities¹¹ belonging to the Society. I shall be glad to know whether they are the Workmanship of any of the Protestant Emigrants or of the Berchtolsgaders who intend to be so as soon as they can.

Bartlet’s Buildings London 29 December 1732.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg. Read at a Meeting of the Society 28th December 1732. Approved and ordered to be forwarded by next Post.

Reverend Sir: My last was of the 19th of this Month, wherein I acknowledged the Receit of Your favour of the 11th Current N.S. and referred You to a more particular Answer as soon as I could receive the Orders of the Society thereupon.

The Society again thank You for the Particular Advices of that Letter, and in order to make a proper Answer to it, it was necessary to consult the Honourable Trustees for the New Colony of Georgia, who being acquainted with so much of Your Letter as related to them, have for the present Signified to the Society their Resolutions thereupon in the following Order Viz.

“lstly. That the said Trustees for Georgia will defray all the Charges of the Protestant Emigrants to the Place of Embarkation and from thence to Georgia in South Carolina in America.

2ndly. On their Arrival in Georgia each Family will have Provision given them Gratis ’till they can take in their Harvest, and also Seed will be there given them Sufficient to Sow all the Lands they shall in the first Year make ready for Sowing, and likewise all Tools and Instruments of Agriculture, Building, and other necessary Uses.

3rdly. Each Man shall have Lands assigned, Sufficient for the comfortable Subsistence of himself and Family, which Lands are Granted in Perpetuum free from all Vassalage and Servitude, liable to no Rent for the first Ten Years, and then only to the small acknowledgement of Ten Shillings per Annum, for every hundred Acres and shall be treated in every Respect in the same manner with His Majesty’s Natural Born Subjects.

4thly. They are to conform to such Orders and Regulations for the Maintenance of Property, Peace, and Good Government as the Trustees shall think necessary from time to time to establish; and on their Arrival are to assist each other in clearing their Lands, Building Houses, and such other works as shall be necessary for their mutual Safety, in Common with His Majesty’s other Subjects there.

5thly. A Pious able Protestant Minister to preach to ’em in their own Language will be provided and Supported at the Charge of the Trustees for Georgia. They shall be protected in the free Exercise of their Religion and in the full enjoyment of all the Civil and Religious Rights of the Free Subjects of Great-Britain.”

At the opening of the next Session of Parliament about the Middle of January the Society hope there will be some Provision made for enabling the Trustees for Georgia to provide for a considerable number of such Protestant Emigrants as shall be willing to go thither; In the mean while the Society will at present provide for Transporting 50 Families consisting of a Man and his Wife and Children under the Age of 7, and three Single Persons above that Age shall be esteemed as one Family. This last Article is only to help the Trustees to a Medium by which they may compute the Expence of a Greater Number. And as to Your Queries relating to the intervention of Publick Authority, You may expect an Answer after the Opening of the Parliament.

The Extracts of Your Friend’s [J. von Reck’s] Letters from Ratisbon were very acceptable to the Society, and discover him to be a Person of Prudence as well as Zeal for Serving the Protestant Interest.

The Society are very much pleased with the Effectual Interposition of the States General by their Minister [Gallieris] at Ratisbon for receiving so great a Number of the Emigrants under their Powerfull Protection.

The Role of Protocol etc. by way of Amsterdam is come safe to hand, and the Papers therein will be translated for the use of the Society as soon as may be. The two Medals in the same Parcel are also come to hand, and the choice of them presented to Sir John Philipps, who thanks You for Your Respect to him therein, though he desires me to tell You, he heartily wishes You had spared making him the Complement he being but one of several Gentlemen concerned as a Trustee in behalf of the Society for the Saltzburg Exiles. The other Medal will be laid up in the Repository of the Society as a Memorial of Your Zeal to serve them, for which Curiosity I beg You will accept of my most Respectful Thanks.

The Letters enclosed for Virginia and for Mr. Claüs in Covent Garden have been forwarded according to Direction.

I am again obliged to make use of my Clerk’s hand which I hope You will excuse, and wishing You many happy new Years, I remain

Reverend and Dear Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 2nd February 1732/33.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg.

Reverend Sir: I received the favour of yours of the 22nd January N.S. and have communicated the same to the Society, by whose direction I am to acquaint you for the present that our Parliament is now opened and that the Trustees for Georgia are in daily expectation of having a Sum of Money granted ’em by that Assembly towards defraying the expence of conducting, fitting out, and transporting a considerable number of the protestant Emigrants of Saltzburg to that Colony, of which you shall not fail to receive advice as soon as that resolution shall be passed, and at the same time care will be taken to send you according to your desire a short description or Account of the Country itself which appears so desirable a settlement to our own People that several of them have been already sent thither. In the mean while you will receive enclosed herein a German Translation of the Conditions or Terms proposed by the said Trustees to such of the Emigrants as shall be willing to go and settle there.¹²

The Society make no doubt but that the Georgian Trustees will give the same allowance to such of the Emigrants as shall accept of the above mentioned Conditions, as the Tirnbergers had from the States General: and they also believe that those Gentlemen when enabled so to do will very readily allow a proper maintenance for a Minister and also for a Catechist or School-Master for their Spiritual Comfort & Instruction, but this point will be more fully explained in the next Letter.

The Society likewise apprehend the Trustees have no objection to the extending this Liberality to the other Emigrants as well as the Saltzburgers: and they return you thanks for the promise of your good Offices in facilitating the Transportation of those Poor People to Georgia and in providing a fit and able Minister for them: as the Spiritual wants of this new Colony ought to be supplied no less than their Temporal, a Minister [Herbert] has been sent over with such of our people as have gone to Georgia and he being soon to return home, another [Quincy] is now going to relieve him.

As to the application of the Charity Money remaining in your hands, the Society desire their meaning may be understood to be, only, that no part of that money be sent after any of the Emigrants from the time they shall be engaged with other Powers, and shall be gone; but that you be at Liberty to relieve any fresh Comers as they pass, whether they be from Berchtolsgaden or other parts of Saltzburg, as your Charity and Prudence shall direct you; and when you advise the Society that your Stock is near Spent, they will remit you a farther supply.

Those Gentlemen have directed me to return you their sincere thanks for your remembrance of them in your prayers, and beg you will continue so to do.

The Society direct me to assure you Sir that they are well satisfied that you had no sinister intention in making the Query about the Contributions of those dissenters you call Presbyterians;¹³ but the Society owe them the Justice to declare that many of them have been remarkably Charitable on this occasion, and therefore hope also that the Behaviour of the Calvinists who you were informed treated the Emigrants with Coldness and Indifference in a certain great City in Germany will prove not altogether so bad as has been represented to you as they shall always hope that every thing which looks like ill will or animosity among Protestants, who live in the mouth of danger from an enemy ready to devour them, will be wholly laid aside, this Testimony to the Behaviour of the Dissenters is the more to be relied on, as it comes from a Society whose Members are all of the established Church.

I am now to present you Sir John Philipps’s most Affectionate Service and to assure you from him that he is only concerned on Account of the present received by him, he never desiring any acknowledgement for carrying on a good work which brings its own reward with it: and that in all Sir John’s Letters to the Benefactors he has wrote to, he has made particular mention of your most singular worth, and of your indefatigable pains and care all along taken for the spiritual and Temporal relief and Benefit of these faithful Confessors.

On reading that part of your Letter which relates to the Medals, three Gentlemen of the Society, Mr. Vernon, Mr. Zeigenhagen and Mr. Copping desired me to let you know they shall think themselves obliged to you if you will be pleased to procure for each of them one of the new Medals of 5 Florins 30 Creuzers a piece, the value of which shall be remitted to you by the first opportunity of a remittance on account of the exiles.

Dear Sir: My present great indisposition has obliged me to make use of a friend’s hand to signify the pleasure of the Society as above. I am glad to find by your last that God grants you strength still to pursue the labour you have so heartily engaged yourself in for the service of so many thousand pious Confessors for which you seem to be raised upon purpose to be the Instrument of providence. May your courage never fail and may you always rejoice in the Effects of your laudable zeal for the Glory of God is the sincere wish of

Reverend and Dear Sir   Yours etc. H. Newman

London 27th of March 1733.   A Monsieur. Monsieur Urlsperger Ministre de la Parole de Dieu a Augburgh en Suabia.

Reverend Sir: I am very much Concerned that I have not been able to write to you in Answer to your Severall Obliging Letters to Mr. Ziegenhagen and my self Since mine of the second of February, all which have been translated and duly communicated to the Society who are very thankfull for all the pains you take in behalf of the Saltsburgh Exiles[.] But upon Reading your last letter of the 16 Current N.S. to Mr. Ziegenhagen this day communicated tho’ I Can’t yet write so fully as I Hope ’eer long to do, I am ordered to let you know that the Society are every week taking Measures in favour of the Saltsburgers notwithstanding the Effect of their Deliberations are not immediately seen.

The Parliament have been hitherto so taken up in affairs of a National concern that those who are to be the first movers in a thing of this nature as relieving the Saltsburgers have not yet had it in their power to follow their own inclinations in favour of them without hazarding the Success of their motion; therefore I must beg leave to Referr you still to Some future letter to inform you of What may be Expected from that August Body.

In the mean time your advices of all the motions of the Emigrants will be exceeding acceptable and the Society were this day very much Pleased at the Account you give of the good disposition of the Prussian Commissary [Goebel] and the Baron [J.] de Reck, the last of whom I should be glad to Know whether he be a Minister of our King or any other Prince and if so from whom. The Society desire particularly that you would Explain that passage of your letter wherein you say the Exiles are forbid to come to Ratisbone thro’ the States they have hitherto permitted to pass. An Account of Georgia is now in the Press and as soon as Published will be sent to you which I shall be glad to do by the first opportunity.

Mr. Oglethorpe Member of Parliament and one of the Trustees for Settling the new Colony of Georgia I informed you in my Letter of the 21st of November last was then just Embarkt with a Ship Load of Artificers for Georgia by a letter from himself dated the 13th of January last is happily arrived at South Carolina and preparing to go to Georgia to facilitate the Comfortable reception of any Protestant Emigrants that may hereafter follow him. They gained their passage in 7 Weeks notwithstanding they went somewhat round about to avoid the cold northerly winds that only 2 young Children died in the Voyage the eldest being but a year and 1/2 old both of them very weak when they Embarked being half starved with want before they left London as many others were who are Recovered (he says) with food and Care upon the Sea, That the Governor [Robert Johnson] and Speaker of the Assembly [Jenys]¹⁴ of the Province wellcomed him on his landing and have promised all the Service in their power to farther the happiness of the new Establishment in Georgia concerning which I hope my next will give you a more Satisfactory account from

Reverend and Dear Sir   Your most humble Servant
H. Newman

P.S.: Dr. Herbert went over with Mr. Oglethorpe as Chaplain but with a design to return with him to England for which Reason the Trustees are Sending another [Quincy] over by the next Ship.

If you have not sent the 3 medals desired in my letter of the 2nd of February [Mr. Wilson and Mr. Belcher] another Member has desired me to Beg a 4th may be added to them[.] And a particular friend of mine desired a 5th may be added to be paid for in the next remittance made to you[.] My humble service to the good Chevalier de Munck [Münch].

London May 4th 1733.   A Monsieur Monsieur Urlsperger Ministre de la parole de Dieu a Augsburg en Suabia.

Reverend and Dear Sir: I Received your Favour of the 27th of April N.S. and acquainted the Society with the contents of it and the other Papers accompanying it which were exceeding acceptable and tho’ I cannot yet tell you what may be the Resolutions in Parliament I am ordered to acquaint you with the Contents of the Petition prepared by the Trustees for Georgia to the House of Commons which they are well Satisfied will meet with no opposition when offered at a proper juncture which is the only thing now waited for and there is Reason to believe it will be presented in a few days.

The Account of the Climate and Products etc. of Georgia is now also prepared by order of the said Trustees and Translating into high Dutch to be Sent to you as well as in English which I believe you will be desired to gett printed in order to make it more Known.

There is no Reason to doubt by the good disposition of some Members of Parliament but that a very handsome Summ will be Granted to the Trustees for Georgia according to the Prayer of the petition herewith sent.

I have also sent Copys of the last advices from Georgia as published in our news papers of last week which fully answer the Expectation of their friends here and if any of the Protestants drove out of Saltsburg should be inclinded to go thither I am persuaded nothing will be wanting to Encourage them and defray all the Expences of their passage of which I hope my next will be more particular from

Reverend Sir   Your most Obedient Humble Servant   H. N.

London May the 11th 1733.   A Monsieur Monsieur Urlsperger Ministre de la parole de Dieu a Augsburg en Suabia.

Reverend Sir: I Received your Favour of the 7 Current N.S. and Acquainted the Society with the contents of it to whom they were very acceptable[.] I am now Glad to Acquaint you that yesterday the petition of the Trustees for Georgia in favour of his Majesties poor Subjects and the distressed Protestants abroad who are willing to become his subjects was presented to the House of Commons being recommended by his Majesty and that the same was well received and referred to a Committee to Consider what was proper to be done thereon So that by this day sennight I hope to be Able to inform you of their Resolution therein.

In the mean time I am ordered to send this Early Notice of it which gives me an opportunity of assuring you that I am

Reverend Sir   Your most Humble Servant   H. N.

London May 18, 1733.   A Monsieur Monsieur Urlsperger Ministre de la parole de Dieu A Augsburg en Suabia.

Reverend Sir: According to the promise in my last of the 11th Current I Have the pleasure to inform you that the Parliament have come to a Resolution to grant a Sum of mony to the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America to be applyd towards the defraying the Charges of Carrying over and Settling foreign and other Protestants in the said Colony and that this Society will Endeavour to prevail with the Trustees to apply as much of that money as they can Obtain from them towards Settling your Saltsburgers or other of your persecuted Protestant Brethren as have yet found no other Settlement and are desirous to go to Georgia.

To facilitate this design You will find Enclosed an Account of Georgia which to prevent mistakes is translated into high Dutch and of such terms and priviledges as will be granted to Such foreign Protestants as the Trustees shall think fitt to Settle there which Account is left to your prudence to make a proper use of with this caution that the Trustees are not yet come to a Resolution of sending more at present than two ship-loads of passengers Consisting of 150 in Each ship to receive them on board at Rotterdam but the precise time of sending one or both those ships will depend on your Advice when a Sufficient number of passengers of one or both Ships may be ready at Rotterdam to Embark.

In order to this the Society recommend it to you to find out a proper person to Conduct them in their way from Germany to Rotterdam and that you would make it and transmitt to the Society as soon as you Can an Estimate of the whole charge of such a Conductor with such number of Protestants to be conducted.

The Society will in the mean time Endeavour to obtain from his Majesty an order to his Minister at Ratisbon for litteras requisitorias for providing them with leave to pass thro the severall Dominions in their way to Rotterdam.

The Society also desire you would Recommend a Person qualifyd to accompany these Protestants as their Minister to whom the Society are willing to allow a Sallary of 50 £ per Annum till the Settlement may be in a Condition to Support him.

The Society would be glad to know how the cash in your hands holds out, and to make a Remittance to you for Effectually Enabling you to answer all the Services now recommended to you

I am with great Respect   Reverend and Dear Sir   Your most Obedient Humble Servant   H. N.

P.S.: The Society hope that with regard to pious books etc. the Evangelick body at Ratisbon will be as kind to those protestant Exiles that may come this way as they have been to others The account herewith sent is an Extract of which has been lately published here and was too large to be Sent to you by the Post.

The Account of Georgia Enclosed in the abovementioned Letter was as follows viz.

A Short Account of Georgia in America. Its Climate, Products, and the Priviledges there granted to the Protestant Inhabitants of what Nation soever.

Among the Various Methods of Assisting the Unfortunate those are the best which not only procure immediate Relief but provide for their future happiness.

With this View His Majesty King George the Second of Great Britain has given a large Tract of land in South Carolina (to be called Georgia) in Trust for providing a comfortable Subsistence for the poor of the said kingdom and such Protestants abroad as shall be driven from their own Country by Popish Persecution. The Disposal of this is in the hands of several Noblemen and Gentlemen who generously employ their time and Endeavours to the Improvement of the Undertaking.

Carolina (of which Georgia is a part) abounds with Provisions Deer, Hares, Rabbits, and Cattle in vast abundance Fish and Fowls of Various kinds Fruits of the best sort Indian Corn, and Rice and European Grain of all sorts.

The Climate is known to be a good one and there are people ready to instruct in the Seasons proper to the Climate and the nature of Cultivating that Soil which is a very rich one. It lies in about 32 Degrees Northern Latitude, the Air is almost always clear, temperate and healthy.

It is Southward of our present Settlements in Carolina, and divided from them only by the river Savannah and bounded on the South by the River Alatamaha which are both large and Navigable[.] from one River to the other on the Sea Coasts is about 70 English Miles, and the Extent of the Country, from the Sea to the Apalachian Mountains is about 300 English Miles still widening in its Progress from the Sea.

The Country is at present filled with Oaks, Firr, Cyprus, Beach, Elm, Cedar, Chestnut, Walnut, Pines, Bay, Laurell, Apple, Peach, Mulberry, and many other valuable Trees, beside Vines which flourish there extremely well, and as it is a fruitful Soil, it may be soon made as beautiful and as profitable a Country by a number of hands as the best of our Foreign Plantations.

All who are sent thither by the Trustees will have free lands in Perpetuity given them. As their Children grow up and Marry, they will also have Lands granted them.

Those that are Poor have their Passage defrayed and all Conveniences allowed them in it. They are not crowded too many in a Ship for fear of Illness, They are Supplied on their Arrival in Georgia with arms for their defence Seeds of all kinds for their Lands and Provisions for a Year or till their Lands can yield them any.

Those who can bear their Expences will have a greater Quantity of Land proportioned to the Number of Servants they carry with them. These Servants however to be able working Men who will have at the Expiration of their Services Lands given them likewise These Lands to be Freehold to themselves and their Heirs male¹⁵ for Ever. All Foreigners will have the same happy Priviledges as the English and those who shall be born in Georgia will Enjoy all the Libertys as Natural born Subjects of Great Britain where the Laws of the Land do firmly secure every Person from Persecution and all other Oppressions whatsoever and from the Insults of all officers and Soldiers.

Liberty of Conscience and a free Exercise of Religion are allowed to Protestants of all Denominations and all Encouragement will be given to Virtue and Religion & all Discouragement to Immorality and Profaneness.

The Trustees have come to a Resolution to give such Persons as are driven out of Germany by Popish Persecution and are not able to transport themselves 50 Acres of Land to each Family and then they will take care to have Provision for Protestant Ministers in their own Language as there shall be occasion to Cathechize, Instruct, Preach, and otherwise Edify ’Em in Religious Concerns.

That the People by the nearness of their situation may be of more use and better defence to one another, they will be Settled in Towns a hundred familys in Each, Their Lands will be devided into 3 Lotts, viz. one Lott for a House and Yard within the Town another for a Garden near the Town and a third for a Farm at a little Distance from it. Their Houses to be built and their Lands cleared by Generall Labour and mutual Assistance.

The People in this Colony will be in no danger from any Enemys. There are but Few Indian Familys within 400 English Miles and these in perfect amity with the English. Port Royall the Station of his Majesty’s Ships is within 30 and Charles Town a great Mart is within 120 English miles. If the Colony should be attacked, it may be relieved by the Sea from Port Royal, or the Bahamas and the Militia of South Carolina will be Ready to Support it by Land.

The Raising of Raw Silk (which will be one of their Principall Employments) is so Easy a work that Every Person from Childhood to old Age can be Serviceable therein. And as it will be a usefull Commodity to Great Britain, It will be a profitable one to those who are Employed in it.

As the Success of the Colony and the Wellfare Support and Protection of the Inhabitants will be the chief Study of the Trustees they will allways be a free, and must in a few Years be a flourishing and happy People.

Bartlet’s Buildings London 29 May, 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg in Suabia.

Reverend Sir: My Last was of the 18th Current O.S. since which I have the favour of Yours of the 27th Current N.S. and immediately Sent it to our Friend Mr. Ziegenhagen to be translated but he being at Kensington for the sake of the Country Air Cannot so Soon receive and Return it as he used to do.

In the mean time I am ordered by the Society to Acquaint you that if you have not according to my Last already Engaged a Conductor to come with the Emigrants from Ratisbone to Roterdam the Society have one well recommended to them as a person proper for the Service having languages etc. Viz. Mr. John Vat a Member of the Council at Bienne between Solethum [Solothurn] and Newfchattel [Neuchâtel] who is desired to attend such notice as he Shall receive from you for that Service.

This Gentleman lived many Years in England and is well known to Severall Gentlemen of the Society as a person both of Experience and Integrity; It is only to be feared that he may be Engaged in some Publick affairs as a Magistrate in his own Country to which he has been lately invited by the great Council of Bienne but it is to be hoped he may be spared to make an Excursion so farr as to do this piece of Service to the Protestant Cause in which he does not want [lack] zeal and I hope discretion.

I wish you all manner of prosperity and am

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

A Copy of a Letter from the Reverend Mr. Stephen Hales to Mr. Vat in Switzerland. London 1 June 1733.

A Monsieur Monsieur Jean Vat a Bienne en Suisse

Dear Sir: It is with great Pleasure that I have heard of your welfare from your Correspondents here.

The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge having lately written to Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourgh to send three hundred Emigrant Saltzburgers or other persecuted Protestants to Roterdam in order to their being thence transported to settle in Georgia, And I hearing that it was Requisite to have one to conduct them to Roterdam thought no one so proper as your self which made [sic] take the Liberty to Recommend you for that purpose to the Society who readily approving of You desired me to write to You immediately to make the proposal to You and to desire You if it suited Your Convenience to hold your Self in readiness to go upon notice from Mr. Urlsperger who has directions to write to You for that purpose if he is not already provided of a Conductor. As his Residence is at Augsburg letters directed thither to him will come to hand tho’ he should be gone to Ratisbon.

You may depend on it that Your Expences to and fro’ in this Service will be defrayed by the Society.

As I am going into Hampshire for two months whatever you shall have Occasion to write on this Subject please to write to Mr. Newman and not to me.

I have the Satisfaction to acquaint you that we hear that Mr. Pury and his People are well and go on with Success.

Mr. Oglethorpe and our Colony are also very well and go on with Success too. They are settled on an Eminence about 12 miles up the Savannah River. The Parliament has given us 10,000 £ and there are daily liberal Contributions coming in from private hands as also by Collections from house to house in several Parishes of London where the ministers of the respective Parishes do in their Sermons exhort their People to Liberality on the Occasion so that we have a good prospect that our Colony will flourish. We are in so perfect good Friendship with the native Indians that they are well pleased with their Neighbours.

I, am, Sir, Your Affectionate humble Servant   Stephen Hales

Bartlet’s Buildings London 3rd July 1733.   A Monsieur Monsieur Urlsperger Ministre de la Parole de Dieu à Augsbourg en Suabia.

Reverend & Dear Sir: I received your favour of the 29th of last month N.S. the Contents of which were this day laid before the Society and were so acceptable that they are very glad to find You are not weary of the good Office you have accepted and thank you for it.

And in answer to it they are glad to observe that Monsieur [J.] de Reck and Monsieur Hugo His Majesty’s Ministers at Ratisbon are so fully instructed by Orders from hence to give You what Assistance they can to facilitate the Passage of any of the Saltzburg Emigrants that shall be disposed to accept of a Conveyance to Georgia on the terms mentioned in my former Letters.

The Trustees for the New Colony of Georgia act under the Royal Authority and all the Property of the Lands in Georgia is by His Majesty vested in them, in as strong terms as possible impowering them to dispose of the said lands to whom they please and therefore what they propose or recommend in favour of the Saltzburgers may be justly looked upon as done under that Authority.

His Majesty’s Rescript to the Embassy at Ratisbon seems to authorize their granting any Assistance they can to further the designs of the Trustees for Georgia and of the Society in favour of the Protestant Emigrants but if any further Authority is wanting, and you please to signify in what manner that can be done the Society will endeavour to obtain it.

The Society are of Opinion that the small numbers that shall offer themselves to go to Georgia must be maintained at their Charge till those small numbers shall make up 150 sufficient for an Embarkation in one ship that will be ready to receive them at Rotterdam as you shall advise of their motion thither.

In answer to your desire for sending more than one Minister, the Society are inclined to send two Ministers and one School Master, with the Colony of Protestant Emigrants that shall be disposed to go to Georgia, and that those Persons receive their Ordination at Augsburg or some other protestant Church in Germany before they depart thence; but as the Charge of their Transportation will be considerable the Society leave it to your Prudence to settle the Salaries of those persons as frugally as you can, the Society relying on good Providence to enable them to comply with what you shall stipulate in their names.

If the Person recommended for a School Master be also be able to perform the Office of a Catechist or Clerk in assisting the Ministers it will be so much the better: in all which as I said the Society confide in Your prudence for making a proper Choice. Let me hear from you as often as any thing material occurs in this Service and you will oblige the Society as well as

Reverend & Dear Sir   Your most obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

London 6 July 1733.   A Monsieur Monsieur Urlsperger Ministre de la Parole de Dieu à Augsburg en Suabia.

Reverend Sir: By the last Post the 3rd Current I acknowledged the Receipt of your Letter of the 29th of June N.S. and answered such particulars thereof as I had received the Orders of the Society upon.

I am now to inform you that whereas in my last Letter it was proposed to send 150 Emigrants in one ship, the Trustees for Georgia upon further Consideration at a Meeting they had the 4th Current are of Opinion for some good reasons that the first Embarkation should consist but of 70 Passengers, who will be sooner dispatched than a greater number, and therefore they will order a Ship to lie at Rotterdam well accommodated for the Reception of that number as soon as you signify that they are on their March thither.

They desire You would as near as you can signify their Quality Viz. How many Men and Women with their Age and Professions, the number of Children computing those under 15 Years of Age and above 2 years at the Allowance of 3 for 2 Passengers of grown People (it being usual to allow the Passage of 3 of that Age for the price of 2 Adult Persons) and all under 2 years of Age (being supposed to live at their Mother’s breast) are with their respective Mothers estimated as one Passenger that accommodations may be made accordingly.

In case of Sickness the Captain will be provided with the usual necessarys of Medicines etc. for their relief that nothing may be wanting to make their Passage Comfortable.

One Minister ’tis hoped will be sufficient to attend this first Embarkation, and that they may be ready to depart from Rotterdam by the latter End of next month; but this will depend on the dispatch you make in sending them forward from Germany by easy Marches as the Weather will permit. Concerning all which it is desired you will be pleased to give me as early notice as you can.

I am ordered to get Bills of Exchange to remit to you Three hundred pounds Sterling which I hope to do by next Post towards defraying the Charges that will necessarily be occasioned in collecting and conveying these good People to Rotterdam

I am Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   H. Newman

A Copy of Mr. Mayer’s Bill sent to Mr. Urlsperger 10 July 1733. London the 10th July 1733

At two days sight pay this my first Bill of Exchange to Senior Urlsperger or his Order Three Hundred pounds Sterling or the Value of it for the same received of Sir John Philipps Baronet and place it as per advice.

John Baptista Mayer

(First) To Mr. Christian Munch at Augsburg.

Bartlet’s Building London 10 July 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

Reverend Sir: My two last letters were of the 3rd & 6th Current O.S. which I hope are gone safe to your hands and to which I shall be glad to receive an answer as occurrences may enable you to write. I am now at the desire of Sir John Philipps one of our Trustees for receiving Benefactions in favour of the Saltzburgers to cover to you a Bill for 300 £ Sterling to enable You to defray the present and future Charges that will necessarily attend one or more Transports of those good People to Rotterdam.

Since the Trustees for Georgia are willing to send a Ship to Rotterdam for so small a number as 70 Passengers computed as I mentioned in my last, I hope it will be a great ease to your Care that you will not be obliged to keep so large a family on your hands as was at first proposed when they were to be made up 150.

The difficulty will be to find proper Conductors for so many little Transports to Roterdam, but if you can prevail with Mr. Vat at Bienne to undertake it, he will make a play of it, and return to Augsburg from Roterdam by that time you can be ready with a Transport for a second Embarkation.

As to printing the Account of Georgia formerly sent to you, it is a matter of discretion that must be left to His Majesty’s Embassy at Ratisbon and You as the best Judges of things of that nature in your parts of the World. Nothing will be blamed here that ends well for the Protestant Interest, and the Glory of His Majesty of Great Brittain.

I am glad to find you are not weary in promoting the deliverance of these good People from their Bondage and that it pleases God to give you health to do what you do; may it long continue for accomplishing all the good Ends you wish is the hearty Prayers of

Reverend Sir   Your most obedient humble Servant   H. Newman

P.S. Mr. Ziegenhagen being at Kensington I have not heard from him since this day sennight but now I expect to see him less, since the Court is going to reside at Hampton Court whither he is to follow.

London 14th August 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsbourg.

Reverend & Dear Sir: I Received by last Post your very acceptable Letter of the 10th Current N.S. and this morning Acquainted the Society with the Contents of it who were very Glad to hear of the recovery of your health and safe Return from Saxony[.] May it long Continue for the Good use You make of it.

The Society think themselves obliged and desire you would Give their thanks to Mr. Münch for his ready Payment of all their Bills on him particularly the last for 300 £ which they Entirely approve of your reserving for such Emigrants as shall be inclined to Go to Georgia.

The Season of the Year being far advanced the Trustees for that Colony and the Society are Earnestly desirous that no time may be lost to dispose the Emigrants you have Engaged with others to make up a Sufficient Number for the first Embarkation which they hope may be easily be done if you can Engage the 50 Tirnbergers lateley Returned from Zeland to be of that Number.

The Society are absolute Strangers to the Complaints you mention of the Palatines in Pensylvania who resort thither in such Vast Numbers of their own Accord without invitation as must be attended with great inconvenience especially to such as are not able to Pay their Passage and have nothing to begin with but must perhaps sell themselves for 3 or 4 Years as Servants to Defray those Expences, and Acquire their daily Subsistence, These inconveniences must therefore lie at their own Doors by what appears to the Society; but the Case of those that go to Georgia upon Invitation whether they be of his Majesty’s Subjects here or of Protestants from Saltzburg is Entirely different. The Trustees contract with Masters of Ships for their Transportation in the most Comfortable manner wherein they take all the Caution they can not to be disappointed by Employing only Persons of Integrity and Experience, and whatever they have Stipulated has hitherto been punctually observed nor can the Trustees be Supposed to have any interest in Suffering themselves or their Dependents to be deceived.

The Kings Embassy at Ratisbon have already His Majesty’s Instructions in this Affair and the Trustees for Georgia can have no greater Authority than they have to give Sanction to the Proposals they have made and which to prevent all Ambiguity was therefore Sent to you in High Dutch.

The Society thank you for your early care in choosing two proper Persons to attend the first Embarkation as Religious Instructors; And the Trustees hope since they are willing to send a Ship on purpose for so small a Number as Seventy that you and your friends at Ratisbone will soon be able to dispatch them to Roterdam while the Season for travelling is so Agreeable as it is under a proper Conductor, which the Society Leave to your Prudence to make choice of as formerly Signified; Your next letter will be Exceedingly Welcome if it bring News of your having obtained a Sufficient Number for the first Embarkation there being a Ship now ready in the Thames to sail to Roterdam upon the first Notice you shall Give to

Reverend Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant
H. Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 28th August 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

Reverend Sir: I hope you received mine of the 14th August in answer to yours of 10th Current N.S. since which by the last Post I received your favours of 17th & 20th August N.S. Translations of both which together with the Papers and Letters accompanying them were this day laid before the Society, who thank you for the pains you take to inform them early and particularly of the motion of the Emigrants.

You will please to observe that I acquainted you in my former Letters that His Majesty has graciously invested the Trustees for settling the New Colony of Georgia with the whole Power necessary for that Service and therefore what you mention of Proper Powers from hence relating to those Emigrants which shall be disposed to go thither must come from that Corporation and you need not doubt but such a Power as shall be thought proper will be sent to you under their Common Seal after the matter has been submitted to their Consideration which will be at their next meeting to Morrow.

As to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, I formerly acquainted you that they are a Voluntary Body of Men, who do not Act under a Royal Charter, as the Trustees for Georgia do, but in this affair have concerned themselves as private Men, out of Pure Pity and Compassion to the Sufferings of their Protestant Brethren, though they have had His Majesty’s approbation for what good offices they intended to do in this affair.

The Society are glad to hear you have the approbation of the Kings Embassy at Ratisbon for publishing what was sent to you by way of Description of Georgia and desire their Excellencys may be assured of their Sincere thanks for all their good offices in promoting the Design in hand for making a Settlement of the Emigrants in that Province.

The Society are much concerned to hear of the Return of some of the Emigrants from the Island of Cadsan [Cadzand] & should be more so if any just occasion was given ’em of disaffection by the misbehaviour of those who had the conduct of that Settlement. but you may be assured that the utmost care under the good Providence of GOD will be taken here by the Trustees for performing and making good all that they have promised in behalf of such Emigrants as are willing to Settle in Georgia.

The Society heartily wish you all manner of Prosperity[.] at the same time I assure you that

I am Reverend and Dear Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant   Henry Newman

P.S. I acquainted Mr. Ziegenhagen to expect a Letter from you by next Post.

The Society will be glad to See a Copy of what you publish on the affair abovementioned.

Bartlet’s Buildings London 7 September 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

Reverend & Dear Sir: I received both your Letters of the 31st of August & 3rd September N.S. in due time and immediately acquainted the Society with the Contents of them, who You may be sure were not a little pleased with the hopes of seeing some effectual fruit of all their concern & your toil towards relieving their persecuted Brethren; which your last seems to give them some prospect of.

To answer your Letters more fully I think I cannot do better than to place Your Queries in the Order you have transmitted them with the answers I am instructed to make, tho’ I must observe to You that I have in my former Letters answered most of them already.

Your 1st Query is Whether these People their Children and Posterity shall continue to have Liberty of professing the Lutheran Religion & shall have the use of a Minister & Catechist continued to them?

Answer the Colony of Georgia is established upon the Foundation of Liberty and Toleration. With respect to a Minister the Protestant Saltzburgers will be in the same circumstance, and have the like priviledge as the Church of England Inhabitants whose Minister is supplied by the Trustees, and will be maintained till they shall be in a condition to support him in the Colony.

The 2nd Article seems to be a Request rather than an Enquiry viz. That they may be planted as near as possible to each other, in order to their mutual assistance & that they may meet with more ease as well as frequence at Divine Worship and to have their Children instructed.

Answer. The Trustees for Georgia have so much regard to this request that they have already given previous Instructions and will repeat them that the Saltzburgers may be placed as near as possible to each other being very desirous that Persons who have so good a sense of Religion as to leave their All for the sake of Jesus Christ should have all possible encouragement & assistance from their fellow Christians to keep them stedfast in the true Faith and to enable them to transmit the same to their Posterity. Query 3rd. Whether care will be taken that they shall not be mocked and ridiculed upon Account of their Habit, Behaviour and Language as has been done in Zeeland?

Answer such Behaviour towards Strangers is very unbecoming and what is justly abhored by all good Men and particular Care will be taken that they shall not be so treated.

Q. 4. Whether the Saltzburgers may be secure of a Property in their Lands & Goods, & that they shall not be obliged to enter into Service?

Answer the Trustees for Georgia always designed that Lands should be given to them and that they should have the same Liberty as to their Persons & the same Property in their Lands & Goods as the rest of his Majesty’s Subjects there.

To the Query about Numbers to be sent:

Answer. The Trustees would be very glad to have as many of the 300 as You can get sent away as soon as possible, and that You give me as early notice of their Coming as you can, upon which they will take immediate care for their reception & transport, but as there cannot go more than a Hundred in one ship, it may be convenient that such a Number should travel first & the other follow at some little Distance. You will be pleased to take notice that any number from 70 to 100 may be carried in one Ship, but rather than not make a beginning, if You can get no more, they will accept of 60 for the first Company and hope to hear by your next that you have secured that Number and engaged a Minister and Catechist to attend them. If after the first Number are departed a sufficient Number should be ready to make a Second Party, you are desired to send them with another Commissary and if You are assured of 2 Companies it would be prudent to send a Minister with one in one Ship, and the Catechist with the other, but whether to send one or both at the time time is left to Your discretion.

The Society take notice of a false Report raised about the great Mortality which might probably attend them; but by the Accounts of the Trustees for Georgia have received from their Settlement of the Persons that went over thither but one only & he an elderly Person died there since their arrival about half a Year ago.¹⁶

Your Powers for acting in behalf of the Trustees are drawn up, & would have been transmitted by this Post but the Season of the Year carrying so many Gentlemen out of Town there were not a sufficient number of Trustees to sign it, however you may expect it will be sent by the first Opportunity under cover to His Majesty’s Embassy at Ratisbon.

If You please to signify how your money holds out care will be taken to supply you, or if on a sudden emergency you should want Two or Three Hundred pounds for serving the Saltzburgers you may take it up, & draw upon Sir John Philipps Baronet who is pleased to permit it upon your giving me proper advice thereof, to which if You please let your Bill refer. Upon mentioning which give me leave to put You in mind what I believe your hurry has made you forget viz. that You have acknowledged the receiving the 300 £ in your Letter to me, but have [not?] sent a Receipt in Form as usual to be laid before Sir John.

I wish all manner of Prosperity & am

Reverend Sir   Your most obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings 18th September 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

Reverend Sir: My last was of the 7th Current since which I received Your Favours of the 7th & 14th Current N.S. with Copies of several Papers and Letters which have been all translated and considered by the Society; The Powers and Instructions to Your self from the Trustees for Georgia are dispatched in due form, under their common Seal, and delivered to Baron Hattorff, who has been so kind as to undertake to forward them to his Majesty’s Embassy at Ratisbon in order to be sent to You.

The Trustees will apply to his Majesty for such Instructions to His Ministers at Vienna as desired by Your Letter of the 7th Current Viz. That they Endeavour to obtain from His Imperial Majesty, proper Orders to the Magistracy at Augsburg for admitting the Emigrants to Quarters in that City.

The Trustees and Society both are glad to understand You have already retained 40 for the Colony of Georgia, & that You have an immediate prospect of having a number sufficient to compleat the first Transport out of the returned Emigrants. They hope by your next Letters to hear of the day they are to set forward, and how long (supposing common Accidents) they may be on their Journey to Roterdam.

They observe the Person recommended for a Conductor to the Emigrants [Ph. von Reck] is a very Young Man, And tho’ they readily accept of the Young Man’s Zeal in the good work, Yet apprehending he may not have sufficient Experience to discharge the part of a Conductor alone, it is again recommended to You to write immediately to Mr. Vat to wait upon You & take upon him the Conduct of the first Transport in conjunction with the Young Man recommended by the Baron von Recht [J. von Reck], because it is of the utmost Consequence especially in the first Embarkation that the same should be Conducted with all the Skill and prudence which can be made Use of to recommend the Design. And if the Young Gentleman and the Journeyman Apothecary [Zwiffler] You mention are desirous to proceed to Georgia, in regard that the First is recommended by the Baron von Recht and the other by Your Self, it is not at all to be doubted but the Trustees will make the same allowances and Grants to them as they do to the Emigrants.

I hope it will please God to continue Your Health to See happily accomplished the Emigration of all the Transports of our suffering Brethren who may embrace the invitation to Georgia and believe they that go first will make so good a Report of the Usage they will find in the Country they are going to as to make others very desirous of following them. I am

Reverend Sir   Your most obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

P.S. I received last Saturday 5 Screw Medals from Mr. Wolter the King’s Agent at Roterdam by Order of Mr. Gullman and the Gentleman for whom they are designed desire me to return their Thanks to You for Your Care in conveying them and that You would let me know the prime Cost and the Charge attending the Conveying of them with Your first Convenience in order to my remitting per Value.

Bartlet’s Buildings London 18 September 1733.   To. Mr. J. Vat at Bienne in Switzerland.

Dear Sir: I received in due time Your most acceptable Letters, of the 30 March, 31 July, & the 4th September Current the last Enclosing a Letter to Dr. Hales at Teddington who being then at his Residence it was immediately forwarded to him; so I did not open it but shall I doubt not in due time know the Contents as Mr. Vernon does already.

I have not acknowledged the Receipt of these favours sooner being daily in expectation of writing to You by order of the Society as I now do to Beg you would be in readiness to proceed to Augsburg upon the first Notice you will receive from Mr. Urlsperger to go thither or to any other place he shall direct for Conducting a Transport of Emigrants from Saltzburg to Roterdam in order to their Embarking for Georgia.

The Society had (before you was wrote to) left it to Mr. Urlsperger to provide a proper Conductor but his last Letters signifying that he had Entertained a young Man of 21 Years of Age [Ph. von Reck] recommended by the Baron Van Recht [J. von Reck] one of his Majesties Ministers at Ratisbone in regard to his recommendation, The Society decline refusing him and have therefore ordered me to write to Mr. Urlsperger by this Post which I have done to desire he would immediately write to You and desire You would accept of acting in conjunction with him whose name he does not tell me but that he is willing to proceed even to Georgia with the first Transport which the Society accept of & had rather be at an Extraordinary Expence of Bearing your charges with his than that there should be want of a Gentleman of your Experience to conduct the first Embarkation. This Gentleman is recommended by Baron Van Recht as a person of Learning and ingenuity for his Years so that your Assistance may soon make him a man of Experience which seems to be the only thing he wants and Yet absolutely necessary.

Your Good inclinations to this Service will it is hoped prevail with You to accept of a partial Commission in Conjunction with a friend rather than none and it is very likely that Mr. Urlsperger may have You in his Eye for a succeeding Transport But the Society as things appear to them had rather You should attend this and that also.

I Pray to God to direct you in this and all Your affairs and give you health equal to Your Zeal for promoting any Service for the Protestant Interest[.] Mr. Urlsperger has mony and credit to supply You with what may be necessary for your self and those You may receive under your Care. Pray let me hear from You by all Opportunities how you Proceed and let me have directions how to write to You as you change your situation.

The University of Oxford in their late Publick Act Complimented Dr. Hales with his degree of Doctor of Divinity while he was on his Living in Hampshire not expecting any such honour in regard to his great merit and the Service he has done both to Religion & Learning in the 2 Volumes he has published on Vegetable Staticks etc. I Lately received a very obliging Letter from Messrs. Polier and Seigneux at Lausania [Lausanne] which I hope soon to answer and Remain

Dear Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Building London 28th September 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

Reverend & Dear Sir: My last was of the 18th September which I hope You have received, since which I received Your favours of the 17th & 21st September Current N.S. with the Prints enclosed in them & communicated them to the Trustees for Georgia, who together with the Society are extreamly thankfull for the great prudence and care you have shewn in conducting this affair.

They are in hopes the opposition made by the Popish part of the Magistracy will be removed upon the application which is made to His Imperial Majesty and will be sent this day to the Kings Minister at Vienna.

As to the objections made by the Emigrants arising from their not knowing the Truth of the Case or the Misinformations they have received if the very wise answers which You have made cannot do it, there is no doubt but the hearty reception and good usage which You may assure them in the Strongest Terms they shall meet with will entirely remove them and therefore the Trustees and the Society are mighty Zealous to have some go tho’ never so few & desire (agreable to the inclosed Minute) that you will immediately Send away what you can and that You will give the most early notice of their motion that a Ship may be ready to receive them at Rotterdam.

They hope You are provided with a good Minister to go along with them but as to a Catechist think the Person recommended in the inclosed Letter by Dr. Guerdes the Lutheran Minister of the Sweedish Church¹⁷ here upon all Accounts most proper, as He is Master of the German and English Tongues and can therefore be more usefull than any Person You can send from Germany.

If after all, their Labour of Love proves unsuccessfull and You cannot engage any Saltzburgers to accept what they think are very good Offers and what are greedily sought after by our own People they must rest Content with having Shewn their good Will towards their persecuted Brethren having had no other Intention but the Benefit of these distressed Objects, no advantage being Possibly to be made to themselves.

Upon this Occasion I think proper to acquaint You from my self that the Trustees are much Sollicited in behalf of a great number of very worthy Confessors of the Truth who have been driven out of the Valleys of Piedmont¹⁸ and have not yet obtained a Settlement but having made the first Offer to the Saltzburgers will receive no other till they have absolutely refused it.

I wish You all manner of Prosperity and am

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

Mr. Ziegenhagen is well and has seen your Complements to him. I congratulate you upon the prospect You have of a new alliance that I heartily wish may be prosperous to your Family and particularly to the Young Lady your Daughter and her intended Spouse. [Wenndrich].

Copy of the Minutes of the Trustees for Georgia.

Palace Court
At a Meeting of the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia September 26, 1733.

Mr. Vernon produced Letters from the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger to Mr. Newman acquainting him with Several Obstacles thrown in the way of the Saltzburgers coming over by the Popish part of the Magistracy of Augsburg; That the number ready to embark are at present but forty one Heads and that many of these object to their going to America, That at present there seems little Likelihood of increasing the Number.

Resolved

That Mr. Vernon be desired to procure Letters to be written to the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger to send immediately to Rotterdam the said Forty one Heads, or as many as are willing to come, Being assured that their Reception in Georgia will encourage others to follow them; and that Mr. Urlsperger be desired to dismiss such as are unwilling to embark. That an Application has been made to his Majesty to send Instruction to his Minister at Vienna to apply to the Imperial Court, that the Popish Magistrates at Augsburg may be induced to consent that the Georgian Colonists may be admitted into their City. By Order of the said Trustees Benjamin Martyn Secretary

Copy of a Letter from Dr. Henry Walther Guerdes Dated at New Broad Street London 11 September 1733.   To Mr. Newman.

Dear Sir: I must beg Leave to Ask; Whether? or no! I may apply to You for recommending a poor Family of my Congregation to the Honourable Trustees of Georgia for the settling of amongst the Saltzburghers and others Germans expelled as I hear from abroad?

You know perhaps Whether a good sober and diligent man that could keep School both in English and German is wanted or would be acceptable to the Colony?

For such a one it is that I could recommend to You in the Person of one Christopher Ortmann who has kept for these many Years a Charity School under my own Inspection and has always in his Office behaved to my entire Satisfaction. The man is about 50 Years of Age and is married to a Woman [Juliana] about 40. They have no Children. The Woman is likewise able to instruct Children in all manner of needle work, so that she may keep a School for Girls for that purpose and has done so before now.

Here they find it a difficult matter to Subsist and are therefore mighty desirous to go to Georgia.

I think ’em worthy of encouragement and recommendation and shall therefore be particularly obliged to You if You can put them in the way that they may obtain the end they desire.

I will in my turn endeavour to see (when I hear that the Saltzburgers come) Whether I can do some thing for them in my Congregation, being with due respect.

Sir   Your very humble Servant   Henry Walther Guerdes

Bartlet’s Buildings 9 October 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Ausburg.

Reverend & Dear Sir: I this Day received Your very acceptable Letter of the 1st Current N.S. and having acquainted the Society with the contents of it they were glad to find good Providence continues to remove the difficulties that obstructed the Relief proposed to be given to the Protestant Saltzburgers by making them free Men of Georgia, and when you have received my Letters of the 18th & 28th of last month I doubt not but You will be enabled to answer all Objections that can with any shew of Reason be made to the Proposal on the part of the Trustees for the Colony of Georgia so as to confirm those Saltzburgers that have come to a resolution of embracing the Offer made to them that they will with the Blessing of God attending ’em see every day fresh Cause to rejoyce in the Track they have taken.

Sir John Philipps sends his humble Service and Thanks to You for Your Receipt for the 300 £ last remitted.

Mr. Ziegenhagen also giving his Company at the Society sends his humble Service and received from me Your Letter of the 28th of last month which Mr. Mayer to whom it was enclosed had sent to me.

The Society think themselves much obliged to the excellent Mr. von Münch and desire you would give their Thanks to him for his kind offer of advancing what money you may want if the supplies you have already received should fall short of what is necessary to dispatch the Emigrants, and defray their Expences on the Road to Rotterdam. Wishing You all manner of Prosperity, I remain

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings 16 October 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

Reverend Sir: I hope e’er this You have received mine of the 18th and 28th September and 9 Current O.S.

I am now to acknowledge the Receipt of Your Favour of 12th Current N.S. Yesterday in the Evening the Contents of which being this Day laid before the Society I am ordered to acquaint you that in Case you have not been able to find a proper Person to be a Minister to the Saltzburgers going to Georgia You may give your self no further trouble because they are in hopes to get one here a German Divine that understands English, has a good Heart and is well qualified for the work being recommended to the Society by our good Friend Mr. Ziegenhagen.

The Catechist [Ortmann] mentioned in mine of 28 of September has with his wife attended the Society and are accepted into such Services as they may be capable of beside Catechising the Children of the Saltzburgers, as soon as I receive Your advice of the Saltzburgers designed for Georgia that they are set out from Augsburg and about what time they may be Expected at Rotterdam. The Trustees for settling that new Colony have ordered a ship [Purysburg] now in the River for the Service to proceed to Rotterdam to receive them on Bord and the more Expedition there is used in hastening their March the less they will feel of the Cold weather which will e’er long come upon us in the Climate where we live.

Till this affair is in some forwardness of Dispatch the Society and all Your Friends here will be glad to hear from You once at least every week that nothing may be wanting in them to take proper measures for the Comfort of those Saltzburgers that shall Embark for Georgia.

I always make Your Compliments to the Society who as often return theirs with their best Wishes that God would prosper your Endeavours in Serving distressed Protestants wherein joins heartily

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

P.S.: I formerly mentioned your directing your Letters to me here in Bartlet’s Buildings London as would occasion my receiving your Letters some hours sooner and at half the Postage I now pay for them beside saving Mr. Mayer the Trouble of sending a Servant on purpose with them which is attended with great inconvenience to him if it happen on a Post Day[.] I have been since thinking that perhaps you decline using that method for fear your Letters should be intercepted but if You direct ’em to me at Bartlet’s Buildings in London without taking notice of my being Secretary to the Society here I believe they will never miscarry and as to any inconvenience that may accrue to your self by the Contents of them if they should fall into ill hands you are always at Liberty to sign them with the first or last Letters of Your name only which I shall understand tho’ others may not. Being obliged to gett your Letters Translated before I can communicate them to the Society or Trustees for Georgia makes it necessary for me to save as much time as I can Especially now we are on a Crisis of Embarking the Emigrants that accept of the Offers made to them.

Bartlet’s Buildings 23 October 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

Reverend & Dear Sir: I received Yesterday both Your Letters of the 15th and 22nd Current N.S. which were this Day Communicated to the Society and they Entirely approve of the measures You have taken for Providing a Minister and Catechist[.] But if they do not succeed so as to answer their and Your Expectations there is a worthy Divine here ready to supply the want of the former who has frequently assisted Mr. Ziegenhagen in the Kings German Chappel as mentioned in my last Letter of the 16th Current which I hope you have received ’eer this whose Resolution will be determined as Your next Letters shall advise, in the mean time Mr. Ortman the Schoolmaster is preparing himself to go over with the Transport ship to Rotterdam to attend the Saltzburgers there as an Interpreter to the English Officers and Sailors on bord the ship. It would have been a Pleasure to the Trustees as well as the Society if the honest Emigrant [George Buecher] with the Family of 11 Persons had continued in his Disposition of proceeding to Georgia because I have reason to believe that he would have been Distinguished by a Commission as a Magistrate among his Brethren if he had Gone. His not going with his numerous Family and others going in their Room has made a Considerable alteration in the List You transmitted for which reason it is Desired that You would send a Compleat List of the Emigrants designed for Georgia of the Men, Women, and Children with their respective Ages and Professions at the time of their setting out from Augsburg the Number of which may perhaps be encreased by that time they take their Departure.

I need not repeat to You that if You should want money to defray the Expences that will necessarily happen in conducting these Emigrants to Rotterdam upon Mr. Münch supplying you with it or with Credit where it may be wanting on the Road in Exchange for your Bills on Sir John Philipps as mentioned in my Letter of the 7th of September that your Bills will be punctually Honoured.

The Society are not a little pleased at Your having sent for Mr. Vat to conduct the first Transport because his Integrity and Experience gives them great hopes that nothing will be wanting to render the passage of those honest People to Rotterdam as comfortable as can be for persons under their Circumstances.

The Society have made no Bargain with Mr. Vat but leave him to make his own Demands relying on his being contented with what shall be reasonable for his Service which I mention that you may readily confide in him as the Society do for his faithfull Discharge of the Trust reposed in him and that you may give him Your Instructions with the same freedom and assurance as to a Person You had been long acquainted with.

I hope Your next will inform me of the Day of the Emigrants being set out from Augsburg as well as of their number etc. and the Route they are to observe and in the meantime you may be assured that Care will be taken by the Trustees for Georgia that a proper ship will be sent to Rotterdam to receive them as soon as they arrive there.

May You still Continue to Enjoy your health and make that good use of it as you do for the Glory of God and the good of mankind is the wish of the Society as well as of

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 26th October 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Lowther at Rotterdam.

Reverend Sir: I hope this will find You happily returned to Rotterdam and thank you for the pleasure you very kindly gave to the Society while you was at London by attending their weekly meetings here.

They have Just now advice of 50 Saltzburg Emigrants setting out as supposed Friday the 19th Current our Stile from Augsburg under the Conduct of Mr. Vat an honest Swiss for Rotterdam in order to proceed to Georgia. Mr. Vat is furnished with Literas Requisitorias by the King’s Embassy at Ratisbone and Money or Credit at Augsburg to defray all his Expences to and at Rotterdam till the Emigrants can Embark on bord the Purisburg—Capt. Fry Commander who is to sail next Thursday or Friday by order of the Trustees for Georgia to receive them on bord; but for fear it might happen by contrary winds or some other accident that the Ship should not arrive a week before the Emigrants do for their immediate reception, on their arrival I am directed by Mr. Philipps our present Chairman and Mr. Vernon a worthy Member of the Society as well as one of the Trustees for Georgia to request Your good Offices in bespeaking conditionally Quarters for these Emigrants till they can Embark to prevent any imposition which they & their Conductor may be liable to as Strangers, the Expence of which will be defrayed as I said by Mr. Vat and Your good Offices on this Occasion will be Esteemed as a favour to the Trustees for Georgia as well as to our Society, which I am sure both Body’s will thankfully acknowledge.

I do not know Mr. Wolters the King’s Agent at Rotterdam for foreign affairs but have upon this Occasion taken the liberty to write to him to ease You of any Trouble that he can in promoting this Service which by the Nature of it cannot be unacceptable to him as a good Protestant and servant to our Gracious King[.] I have therefore referred him to You to concert with You and he may think proper to be provisionally only for if they Embark immediately upon their arrival at Rotterdam, I hope neither of You will have any trouble but rather Pleasure, I am

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

P.S. The King’s Barges are gone down the River to meet the Prince of Orange¹⁹ hourly Expected and if his Highness lands at Tower Wharf his Majesty’s Coaches are there to receive him.

Bartlet’s Buildings 26 October 1733.   To Mr. D. Wolters Agent for his Britannick Majesty at Rotterdam.

Sir: I thank You for Your favour of the 15 of last month and for Your Care in forwarding from Mr. Gullman the Box of Screw Medals by Capt. Christian Master of the Hyam Sloop who delivered them safe to me.

I am now at the Desire of some Charitable Gentlemen to request your good Offices in behalf of 50 or more Protestant Emigrants from Saltzburg who have lately accepted of becoming Subjects to his Britannick Majesty and as such are supposed to have set out from Augsburg Fryday 19 Current O.S. in order to Embark at Rotterdam for the Province of Georgia[.] How soon they may arrive at Rotterdam is not Certain but the Purisburg Capt. Fry is ordered hence to be there for their reception as long before hand as he can Yet in Case contrary Winds or other accidents should prevent his being there time enough; The Reverend Mr. Lowther Minister of the English Church at Rotterdam is wrote to by this post to bespeak Quarters provisionally for them that Mr. Vat their Conductor may not be imposed upon in the Expence of their Lodging and Diet which as Strangers they may be liable to. And any assistance you are pleased to give in Concert with Mr. Lowther to facilitate this Service, I can assure You will be thankfully accepted by many worthy & Charitable Gentlemen here.

Mr. Vat or the Conductor of these People whoever he may be will be Enabled to Discharge all reasonable Expence on them, but the design of this recommendation is to prevent their being put to unreasonable Charges. And if they Embark immediately on their arrival You will have the Pleasure of seeing Your Trouble at an End. The Agreement for Quarters being provisional only.

I shall be glad to have it in my Power to return any Favour You shew to these Objects of Charity and remain

Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 30 October 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

Reverend & Dear Sir: I have this Morning received Your Favour of the 29th Current and immediately procuring a Translation of it have acquainted the Society with the Contents of it, They are Concerned to find the Number of Emigrants a Second time reduced to 40 tho you don’t mention the Reason.

My Last was of the 23rd Current which I hope You will have received e’er this, to inform You of the Purisburg’s being the Ship appointed by the Trustees for Georgia to attend at Rotterdam to receive the Emigrants on their arrival there to which I am now to add that Capt. Fry master of the said Ship is ordered by the Trustees to Depart hence Friday 2nd of November Wind & Weather permitting so that in all likelihood she may arrive at Rotterdam in a Week before the Emigrants will.

I have wrote to the Reverend Mr. Lowther Minister of the English Church at Rotterdam and to Mr. Wolters the King’s Agent there to assist with their good Offices the Commissary that shall attend the Emigrants in whatever Shall be thought necessary.

The Trustees for Georgia don’t design the Purisburg shall come up to London in her return from Holland but to touch at Deal or Dover to be Visited by an Officer from them to see that all things be provided for the Saltzburgers which may be necessary to render their voyage Comfortable. Nor would it be for the advantage of the Passengers to Georgia to hinder their voyage so much as bringing the Ship into the River would do. I hope to hear often from Mr. [Ph.] Von Reck while they are on their March and shall be glad of the like Favour from You as occurrences may require & I Remain

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

P.S. I cannot account for Mr. Vat’s Silence but that he intends to carry to You his Answer in Person.

Bartlet’s Buildings 6 November 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

Reverend and Dear Sir: My last was of the 30 October. Since which I received none from You tho’ I hear 3 Mails are come in since Your last of the 29 October N.S.

The Purisburg sailed for Rotterdam last Friday the 2 Current and as the Wind has been fair she must be arrived e’er this. Christopher Ortman the Schoolmaster went over in the Ship to assist the Saltzburgers as an Interpreter and if the Minister and Catechist does not attend them there as You Expect Mr. Ziegenhagen has a prospect of being furnished with a very good Minister here if he may be allowed a little time to Prepare himself for the Voyage.

Last Post I received from Mr. Vat a Letter at Bienne 30 October 1733 wherein he acknowledges the Receit of Your 2 Letters of the 15 and 21 of the same Month and mine of 18 of September And that according to your Desire he purposed the next Day viz. 31 October to set out for Augsburg by way of Zurich St. Gall and Lindau.

I wish his Journey be not undertaken too late to arrive with You time enough to attend the Saltzburgers to Rotterdam unless something unexpected should retard their departure from Augsburg but perhaps he may find means to overtake them. A Letter from Mr. Von Recht [von Reck] their Conductor will be very acceptable to inform me now and then of the Condition of the Emigrants under his Conduct[.] I hope every thing will answer his and our Wishes to him on the road[.] if Mr. Vat be with you when you receive this please to let him know that I am concerned to find my Letter should be 4 weeks going to him and his answer 17 Days coming to me tho I sent it to his friend in London for more certain and Expeditious Conveyance.

I hope Your Letters for the future will come directly to me here partly to avoid double Charges & more for Saving time not to say also some trouble both to Mr. Mayer and my self for I send my Clerk every Post almost to Mr. Mayer to save him trouble and if he returns without a Letter from You he walks at least 2 English Miles in vain. I am

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings 13th November 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg in Suabia.

Reverend Sir: My last was of the 6th Current since which I have received your favours of the 2nd, 5th, 9th and 12th of this month N.S. and the several Papers refered to in them a Translation of which were this day all laid before the Society and read[.] They thank you for your very kind assistance and Care in dispatching the Protestant Emigrants and hope Success will attend all your future good Offices in their behalf.

The Society took early care to engage the Reverend Mr. Lowther Minister of the English Church at Rotterdam and Mr. Walters [Wolters] Agent for His Brittish Majesty there to give all the assistance they could to the Commissary that should attend the Emigrants and accordingly Mr. Lowther has signifyed to me that he has prepared the Magistrates to expect a Transport from Augsburg for Georgia and that they need not doubt of a kind Reception if they came in health and to be satisfyed of that they will desire them to stay one night or two between Dort and Rotterdam, or so long as till the Magistrates are satisfyed that they are in health, when they will give orders for their proper reception.

The Society are glad to hear Mr. Vat is safely arrived at Augsburg, and that you have taken him under your roof in that kind manner you have done till it can be resolved how to employ him[.] there seems to be a probability of soon making up another Transport of Emigrants either at Augsburg or France [Frankfurt]²⁰ but they think it very proper he should remain with you till it can be known what occasion there may be for his Service to conduct a future Transport to Rotterdam.

There is no advice yet of the arrival of the Purysburg at Rotterdam but She has had fair winds[.] tis very probable that she will get thither at least a week before Mr. [Ph.] Von Reck and his Troop arrive. The Society are well pleased with the Instructions you have given to Mr. Von Reck and approve of the allowance you have agreed to give him for his Service. I am now making Copies of your last Letters to be laid before the Trustees for Georgia at their next meeting and remain

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

P.S. I beg leave to refer you to the Enclosed Mr. Vat for other particulars relating to affairs here and shall now and then take leave to Subjoin a Postscript to you by way of Letter to him[.] Mr. Oglethorpe intended to return this fall to England but there is advice come that he in September last had a fall from his Horse in Georgia which gave him such a Contusion in his side as will go nigh to prevent his Return and if that be all the ill Consequence that will attend his fall some of his friends here will not be Sorry that it will detain him to see and take care of the Saltzburgers who it is wished may arrive in Georgia before he comes away[.] I mean the first Transport.

Bartlet’s Buildings London 16 November 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Richard Lowther at Roterdam.

Reverend Sir: I received your Letter of the 18 Current N.S. and acquainted the Society with the Contents of it, at their last meeting who thank you for your readiness to bestow your good offices in favour of the Saltzburgers and very much approve of your prudent caution in acquainting the Burgomasters of your expectation. I am glad to understand by a letter I received this Evening from Mr. Ortmann that the Purisbourg arrived at Rotterdam last Sunday safe and that She will be ready to receive the transport of Saltzburgers as soon as they arrive, and consequently give you a very little trouble, if any.

Mr. Vat who was designed for their Conductor did not arrive at Augsburg from Switzerland ’till a week after they were set out and therefore Mr. Philippe De Reck nephew of our King’s minister at Ratisbone is so kind as to take upon him the charge of acting as Commissary to conduct them, from whom I have also a Letter dated at Franckfort on the Maine of the 15th Current N.S. where they had then rested two days all in good health, and that he had hired a Vessel to carry them all to Rotterdam so that in all likelihood they may be with You e’er this comes to Your hands and because I don’t know how to direct to him better I have taken the liberty to cover a Letter for him to you imagining that he will apply himself to You as he is instructed immediately on his arrival.

A Minister [Bolzius] and a Catechist [Gronau] recommended by Professor Franck at Hall that could not join them on the Road will meet them at Rotterdam who are likewise recommended to your good offices as well as the minister [Schumacher] that comes with them from Augsburg who will return to Augsburg after seeing them embarked.

The news Papers will inform You of the Prince of Orange’s illness which has occasioned a Suspension of the Nuptials, but I am glad to tell You that upon an Enquiry I have this day made at Somerset house, His Highness is much better and looked upon to be out of danger of any ill consequences from the fatigue of his voyage which occasioned his indisposition so that tis hoped he may be able in a few days to go abroad, and some say that orders are given to fit up an apartment for him at Kensington Palace and that the Wedding will be defered ‘til the beginning of December.

I shall be glad to hear from You of the safe arrival of the Saltzburgers, and of any Circumstances which may serve to guide us in the future transport: and may perhaps e’er long follow these under the Conduct of Mr. Vat, out of the Eight hundred Emigrants expected from Saltzburg as Mr. [Ph.] De Reck informs me.

Sir James Lowther is just now come well to town having left Sir Thomas and Lady in good health at Holker who are not expected here ’till after Christmas.

All Your friends here particularly Sir John Philipps and his Sons are well and return their humble Service to You by

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

P.S. Whatever charges you are at in serving the Society on this Occasion please to keep an account of it that I may take care to discharge it.

Bartlet’s Buildings London 13th November 1733.   To Mr. J. Vat at Mr. Urlspergers at Augsburg.

Dear Sir: It was with Pleasure I received by last Post the advice of your Arrival at Augsburg, both by Mr. Urlsperger’s and Your Letters of 12th Current N.S. which were this day laid before the Society and since there is a Prospect of another Transport of the Saltzburg Emigrants for Georgia either at Augsburg or Franckfort wanting a Conductor to Embark at Rotterdam, they think it adviseable that you remain where you are till they or Mr. Urlsperger can point out the Service you are so kind as to undertake when occasion shall require.

We see but little into the ways of Providence and therefore I will not call it a disappointment that you did not sooner arrive at Augsburg, till I see how things may turn hereafter[.] your experience under the Prudent Conduct of Mr. Urlsperger will enable you dextrously to avoid the Artifices and Snares of those of the Romish Persuasion who are incessantly engaged with the Common Enemy of mankind to devour as many innocent Protestants as they can.

No doubt there is a Treasure of Wrath reserved for those who delight in persecuting the faithful followers of Jesus Christ and whether the time be now at Hand that Antichrist is to receive her doom from those of her own Party the Progress of the Wars in Italy and Poland may in a few months shew.²¹

Governor Shute and Colonel Valogne are now at Bath in good Health as the rest of your Friends here are but frequently Inquisitive of your Welfare.

I must not omit to acquaint you of the Prince of Oranges happy arrival here last Wednesday to be married to our Princess Royal, the Celebration of which was to have been as Yesterday at St. James’s in a most Magnificent manner where accommodations are prepared for about 4000 Spectators in a Gallery that Issues from the Royal Apartments over the Garden into St. James’s Park and thence by two long sides returns to the French and Dutch Chappel by Marlborough House but the Prince being taken ill on the day before which was Sunday while he attended Divine Service in the Dutch Church at Austin Fryers with Symptoms of a Pleuretick Fever the King immediately gave orders for suspending the Nuptials till His Highness’s recovery, which ’tis said there is great likelihood of in a few days. His Highnesses weak Constitution not being accustomed to such fatigue as his late Voyage &c had necessarily subjected him to ’tis said occasioned his indisposition which ’tis hoped by the Blessing of God on the great Care that is taken of him at his Lodgings in Somerset House may soon be removed.

Pray let me hear from you now and then either in a Postscript to Mr. Urlsperger’s letters or a Separate Letter as you find occasion to write to

Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 16 November 1733.   To Mr. [Ph] De Reck at Rotterdam.

Sir: I received with great Pleasure your letter of the 15th Current N.S. from Franckfort and immediately communicated it to the Trustees for Georgia who were then sitting to whom it was very acceptable and shall take care to lay it before the Society at their next meeting the 20th Current and acquaint you with their orders thereupon.

In the meantime the Reverend Mr. Lowther Minister of the English Church at Rotterdam and a Member of the Society is desired to assist You with his advice and good Offices in every thing for the easy Embarkation of the Saltzburgers under your care on board the Purisbourg where I hope you and they will find all necessary accomodations for bringing them to England. Captain Fry the Master of the Purisburg has instructions from the Trustees for Georgia what Port to Stop at in England before he proceeds on his Voyage to Georgia from which Port I shall be glad to receive a Letter from you as soon as you arrive with an Account of any further necessaries that may possibly be wanting that Care may be taken to Supply them.

I received a Letter from Mr. Urlsperger of the 12th Current N.S. by which Mr. Vat arrived the 10 at Augsburg too late to follow you with any likelihood of overtaking you and I am very glad to find you have Personated an English Commissary so well as not to want his assistance. He lodges at present with Mr. Urlsperger in hopes of another Transport from the Prospect of 800 more Emigrants out of whom perhaps a number may be inclined to go to Georgia on the terms offered to those under your care.

I shall be glad to see you safe in England which I hope may be in a Short time assuring you that I am

Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

P.S.: I take the Liberty of writing to you in English hoping you may understand it as well as I do french and if you dont Mr. Christopher Ortmann who is gone over in the Purisburg will be your Interpreter.

Please to let him know that I received his Letter of the 11th Current O.S. from Rotterdam and that his friends here are glad to hear of his safe arrival and hope to hear further from him as occasion offers.

Bartlet’s Buildings London 20th November 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

Reverend and Dear Sir: Since my last of the 13th Current I have received your favours of the 16th & 19th Current both which have been laid before the Society and the last of them being translated by hand by Mr. Vat was read, but the Subject of it being of great moment and too delicate to be answered hastily they have desired Mr. Ziegenhagen to answer it according to the sense of the Society at the reading of it. Your letter of the 16th Current being long the Translator could not finish the Translation of it, till the Society was risen, upon which I was ordered to give a Copy of it to be laid before them at their Meeting to morrow which I have taken care of.

We hourly expect advice of the arrival of Mr. de Reck with the Saltzburgers at Dover were [where] they are to Stop to receive their last Dispatches from the Trustees for Georgia and to be filled up with Passengers what may be wanting in the Saltzburgers to compleat the Number contracted for otherwise the Trustees would be at the same Expence for sending half a Ship as a whole Ship Load. For the same reason of frugality they will rather send the Passengers to the Ship than let the Ship come into the River where she will be liable to so many hindrances as cannot be foreseen or avoided, and yet the Trustees are engaged to pay demurage for all those Letts [hinderances] while the Ship is in their Service. The Society have ordered the books you desired to be sent by the first opportunity which I shall do as you advise[.] you forgot to send me the Price of the Screw Medals.

I hope I may be more particular in my next and in the mean time desire you may be assured that I am

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

P.S. In the meantime your direction to me here saves at least 6 Hours of the time your Letters are coming to my hands. Give me leave to subjoin what follows.

Bartlet’s Buildings 20th November 1733.   To Mr. Vat at Mr. Urlsperger’s at Augsburg.

Dear Sir: I was glad to see your hand writing to a long letter from Mr. Urlsperger and that you are so happily employed as to assist him till Providence shall direct you to some other service for our afflicted Brethren[.] I hope the pleasure you enjoy under Mr. Urlsperger’s Roof will compensate for the trouble you have had of making an Excursion from Swisserland.

Colonel Pury is returned from South Carolina but I have not had the happiness yet to see him tho I hope it will not be long first.

I am Dear Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

P.S. Dr. Hales I hear is well just now returned from his living in Hampshire[.] there is a Second Volume of his vegetable Staticks published, which will be sent with the first but I doubt I shall with difficulty get an Opportunity of Conveying them unless you instruct me.

Bartlet’s Buildings London 24th November 1733.   To Mr. Philip George Fred, de Reck at Dover by Mr. Butienter.

Sir: I received your Letter of the 27th of November N.S. from Rotterdam; which I have this day laid before the Society, and they are glad to hear the Saltzburgers designed for Georgia are so far arrived in their way thither and if you are inclined to go with them to Georgia and to settle there, the Trustees for that Colony will give directions to Mr. Oglethorpe to grant you such encouragement in Land as you shall be fully satisfyed with.

In the meantime I am directed by the Society to acquaint you that they have agreed to defray your Expences to Rotterdam on the foot of [according to] Mr. Urlsperger’s Stipulation as signified in his Letters to the Society and that upon the Embarkation of the Saltzburgers on the Purysburg they are under the direction of the Trustees for Georgia who will take care that every promise made to them by their direction as to free Passage Over Sea, & their Settlement in Georgia shall be punctually complied with on their arrival there. So that you will please to consider if you dont incline to settle in Georgia on the foot of the encouragement abovementioned whether it may be worth your while to proceed thither.

I am further directed by the Society to desire your acceptance of five Pounds to be paid to you by the Reverend Mr. Butienter as a gratuity from the Society over and above the allowance made to you for your Service to Rotterdam. And if you are not inclined to go to Georgia the Society will be glad to see you here in your passage back to Germany.

I am Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

P.S. Sir: I should be glad [if] I had been able to confer with you and the Saltzburgers in High Dutch and that [if] I had been other wise qualified to wait on you at Dover[.] the Society have therefore desired the Reverend Mr. Butienter one of their Members and the worthy colleague of Mr. Ziegenhagen to wait on you at Dover with their complements to the Reverend Mr. Bolzius and Mr. Gronau the Minister and Catechist sent by Professor Franck at Hall to attend the Saltzburgers to Georgia, and at the same time to advance to them ½ a years Salary from the time they set out from Hall Viz. 25 £ to Mr. Bolzius and 15 £ to Mr. Gronau but Mr. Ortmann’s Salary to Commence from the time of his Embarkation here for ½ a Year of which he will also receive 5 £, their Salaries to continue till Such time as they can be provided in Georgia. Capt. Coram one of the Trustees for Georgia will on their parts visit the Purysburg to see that all things necessary be supplied for the Comfort of the Passengers on bord & to fill up the ship with as many English Passengers as may be conveniently accommodated. If You come to London I shall be very glad to see You to have the Account of your Pilgrimage with the Emigrants referred to in your Letter of the 15 November from Franckfort. I hope You received mine of the 16th November O.S. at Rotterdam.

Bartlet’s Buildings 29 November 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Butienter at Dover or in his absence to Capt. Coram.

Reverend Sir: The Purysburg sailed from Rotterdam the 23rd Current but there is no News of her yet however the wind being contrary we are in no Pain for her Safety.

I have a Letter from Mr. Lowther Minister at Rotterdam of the 23 Current signifying that Capt. Fry refused to admit the two Clergymen attending the Saltzburgers into the great Cabin that being his own priviledge upon which I immediately complained of it to Mr. Symonds Capt Fry’s owner who has wrote Yesterday and again by this Post in very strong Terms that they be immediately received and provided with the best accommodations in the Great Cabin and that whatever he Claims on Account of his priviledge must be charged to his Service and that no other Persons be admitted into the Cabin so as to hinder or incommode the two Clergymen and therefore I hope there will be no further occasion of Complaint on this Score.

A Chalice and Patten in Plate²² are making and will be sent down as soon as made therefore pray let me know how they may be Directed at Dover in Case you should be come away from thence.

My humble Service to Capt. Coram who I hope is got well with you to Dover of which a Line from him or you will be very welcome.

My humble Service also to Mr. De Reck and Messrs. Boltzius²³ and Gronau of whose great merit I have received a long letter from Professor Franck which very much pleased the Society and therefore they will take it very well that You and Capt. Coram take care that nothing be wanting to their being accommodated in the best manner on bord during their voyage to Georgia and it is from these Gentlemen that the good usage [treatment] of the Saltzburgers will be made known to their friends in Germany so that ’tis wondered here that the Capt. should not for his own Interest give them the best accomodations without any direction from hence but Mr. Simonds has wrote so fully upon this head to the Capt. that I hope no more need be said about it.

I have 2 Letters from Mr. Urlsperger since You went by which there is no prospect of More Saltzburgers till next Spring but great Complaints of the Usage of Protestants in Hungary and Bohemia for whom tis hoped good Providence will raise up some relief from the Protestant powers in Europe.

The Prince of Orange continues on the mending hand so that Yesterday he received the Compliments of several of the Nobility etc. and my Lord Mayor in person waited on his Highness to congratulate his Recovery so much as he enjoys it.

Pray let me hear from You as occasion offers and believe me to be

Reverend Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings 4 December 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Lowther at Rotterdam.

Reverend Sir: I received the favour of the 4th Current N.S. which was this Day laid before the Society who thank you for all your good Offices to the Saltzburgers and the Gentlemen who attend them as Conductors.

I was in hopes e’er now to have heard of their Arrival at Dover but for above a week past the wind has been against them and this day the Society are informed that the Purisburg run aground in Your River at coming out where I hope your next may inform me that she received no damage but what may be easily repaired.

I am to thank You for the advice you give about the Captain’s not admitting the Clergymen into the great Cabbin upon which 2 letters have been wrote to him in very strong Terms by the Captain’s Owner to admit them into the great Cabbin preferably to any body else and to give them there the best accommodations which I doubt not will be complied with as soon as he receives those letters at Dover.

The Prince of Orange is much better in his health and is going to Kensington for the perfect recovery of it which every well wisher to Old England and the Protestant Interest must rejoice at.

I shall make Your Complements to Sir James Lowther as soon as I see him, and the Society desire Your acceptance of theirs at the same time I shall Subscribe my self

Reverend Sir   Your most obedient humble Servant
H. Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 4 December 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg in Germany.

Reverend and Dear Sir: I have received Your Letters of the 23 and 26 November N.S. with the Extracts which accompanied them all which were this Day laid before the Society and they Expressed themselves not a little pleased at Your Zeal for procuring Relief to the Distressed Protestants in Saltzburg and other parts.

They were glad to understand by Mr. [J.] De Reck’s Letter to you that the influence of the Protestant Powers in Europe is at present so great and hope God will incline their Hearts to make a right use of that Influence at this Juncture.

The Emigrants under the Conduct of Mr. [Ph.] De Reck embarked at Rotterdam the 4 Current N.S. with Messrs. Bolzius and Gronau but the Ship being rather too large for the Service run aground coming out of the River so that they were obliged to lighten her to get her off of the Bank but I hope without any other damage than hindering her a few Days of her Voyage to Georgia.

In the meantime one of the Trustees for Georgia and the Reverend Mr. Butienter a Member of our Society are gone to Dover to Expect [await] the Arrival of the Ship and to give her all the dispatch they can. If Mr. De Reck inclines to go with them the Trustees for Georgia have ordered the Capt. to afford him the best Accommodations the Ship will allow of thither and back to England.

I have received a Letter from Professor Franck giving an Extraordinary Character of the Minister and Catechist which he has recommended in regard to which the Society have taken Care that nothing may be wanting to make their Passage comfortable.

Pray give my humble Service to Mr. Vat, his friends here often enquire after his health, and will be glad of any good occasion of seeing him. I wish you all Manner of Prosperity and am

Reverend Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings 4 December 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Butienter at Dover.

Reverend & Dear Sir: I am directed by the Society to return You their Thanks for Your Letter and Charitable Designs for the Distressed Emigrants of Saltzburg. They beg of You to give them all the Comfort and Assistance in Your Power, and assure them that our Prayers and best Endeavours will be used that they shall meet with the most Christian Usage in their Passage to and after their arrival at Georgia. The Society are Extreamly concerned to hear that the Reverend and worthy Ministers Bolzius and Mr. Gronau were not treated at Rotterdam by Capt. Fry as they deserved. The Trustees of Georgia have sent repeated Orders by the owner Mr. Symonds to Capt. Fry that those Gentlemen shall be immediately received into the Cabbin and to the Captain’s Table and that nothing may be wanting on our parts. You are desired by the Society to enquire into and supply those worthy Gentlemen with all necessaries, as bedding Clothes Refreshments etc. while at Dover and for their Passage and to assure them that we Esteem them greatly for their works Sake and that the Character Mr. [G. A.] Franck gives us of them is the highest Satisfaction and Pleasure we could receive. We are Sorry that the Poor Emigrants have met with Difficulties at their first Embarkation[.] God does it for a Tryal of their Constancy and Perseverance in the Truth[.] We are greatly pleased to hear from all hands that Monsieur [Ph.] Von Reck has approved himself worthy the Charge reposed in him, We Desire to be further assisting to him and if he wants any Necessaries for his Passage or at Dover You are desired to supply him, the Trustees for Georgia are very pressing that he should proceed with the Emigrants to Georgia and his Expences to and from thence will be defrayed; We hope to have the happiness of Seeing him here upon his return when we shall make our gratefull acknowledgements for his Care and Dexterity in managing this affair[.] And now we entreat You to Comfort the poor Emigrants and assure them that our best Endeavours have been used for their kind and Christian Treatment both here and abroad and that we may not be wanting upon our parts we desire You will present each grown person above 20 with 20 s Men as well as Women, To each Person under and above 12 Years of age 10 s and 5 s to all under 12 Years to be laid out as their Parents shall direct. The Society beggs that you will allow Your self every thing that is necessary and Convenient upon the Road and at Dover at our Charge[.] For the Payment of all these Expences, We desire You will take up Money from Mr. Minet, and his Bill drawn upon Wm. Tillard Esq. in Spittal Yard shall be paid at Sight, and now Dear Sir We recommend You and the poor Emigrants of Saltzburg to the Care and Protection of Almighty God, wishing their Prosperity and assuring them that no Care of ours shall be wanting to promote it. I am in the Society’s Name

Your most affectionate Friend and Brother   Tho. Wilson

Bartlet’s Buildings 4 December 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Butienter at Dover.

Reverend Sir: Mr. Wilson has wrote so fully the Sense of the Society upon reading Your Letter of the 1st Current to me that I have only to add that beside the Contrary winds having detained the Purysburg she had the Misfortune to run aground in coming out of the River from Rotterdam which obliged the Capt. to take out some of her Lading to Lighten her but it was hoped no other Damage would Ensue except detaining them a few days longer.

The Chalice and Patten are just now sent in and to save time that they may go tomorrow I have procured from a Trunkmaker the smallest Trunk I could get to Pack them in and shall send them by the first Opportunity if not tomorrow then on Thursday directed to Mr. Minet for You[.] my humble Service to Capt. Coram and tell him I hope he takes abundance of Care of You that You want nothing for Your Comfort that the Road affords but if he should be Sparing as a hardy Traveller in his way of living the Society desire you would allow your Self every thing that is Convenient for your own Person as well as for Making the presents to the Minister Catechist and the Saltzburgers as mentioned in Mr. Wilson’s Letter, for which Service You are desired to draw Bills on William Tillard, Esq. in Spittal Square One of our Treasurers for any money that you shall take up from Mr. Minet or any other Gentleman at Dover Mr. Tillard being desired to give due honour to any Bills You shall draw upon him.

Pray let me hear from You as often as occasion requires. Mr. Ziegenhagen was here this day and very well, with the rest of Your Friends that usually attend here[.] I have had no Letters from Augsburg since my last to You of the 29th November but Expect some every Day.

I am   Dear Sir   Your most obedient Humble Servant
Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings 11 December 1733.   To Captain Coram at Dover, Kent.

Sir: Your Letter of Yesterday Concerning the Appearance of the Purisburg off of Dover was very welcome to the Society who were just breaking up when it came to hand. Mr. Vernon and Dr. Bundy had both the Satisfaction of reading it and I hope your next will confirm the Account of her Arrival at Deal or Dover with some Particulars which may Enable the Society and Trustees to judge of such further measures as may be necessary for them to take before the Saltzburgers leave England.

Pray give my humble service to Mr. Butjenter with my Thanks for his Letter of last Sunday and let him know that having communicated to the Society they agreed in the Construction he puts on Mr. Wilson’s and my Letters of furnishing the Minister and Catechist with all necessaries.

I suppose You have Instructions from the Trustees to make a List of the Saltzburgers their Sex, Age and Professions respectively and if You please to favour Mr. Butjenter with a Copy of it he will send, or bring it at his return to Town to be laid before the Trustees.

You have also instructions about Mr. [Ph.] De Reck who by his last Letters seems much inclined to go on to Georgia and as I understand by Mr. Vernon, the Trustees are very well pleased he should go on the terms he himself has mentioned.

I hope God will Direct Mr. Butjenter and You to concert matters so as may result in his Glory and the Comfort of these pious Confessors who tho’ they are but few in number their good or ill report of the Treatment they meet with here will animate or discourage a considerable number to follow them next Spring.

I am   Sir   Your most humble Servant Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 13 December 1733.   To Mr. [Ph.] De Reck at Dover.

Sir: I received Your Favour of the 22nd Current N.S. giving an Account of the Trouble that attended your Passage from Holland which has been communicated to several of Your Friends here and given them not a little concern that the beginning of Your voyage should meet with so many rubbs and quietudes to You and your Fellow Travellers. I hope such Effectual Care is taken to remove them especially in those things which are in the Captains Power that You will have no Occasion to Complain hereafter and am glad to find by the Latter part of Your Letter that Capt. Coram has redressed all Your Grievances nor will it I dare Say be his fault if they are not Entirely prevented for the future.

I am satisfied Mr. Butienter will do every thing on his part to furnish Messrs. Bolzius and Gronau with necessaries to make the rest of their Voyage Comfortable.

Your Zeal for pursuing Your Voyage with the News you mention is very laudable and I hope God has raised You up not only to be as a Father to the Saltzburgers on bord the Purisburg but to many others that may follow them from Germany or Piedmont to Georgia.

What You mention about the 300 Vaudois shall be Communicated to the Trustees for Georgia and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge at their first meetings and their resolves signified to Mr. Wolters.

I Pray God to send you a good Voyage and safe arrival in Georgia of which I shall be very glad to be informed from your own Hand by the first Opportunity with an Account of the more remarkable Occurences at Sea and of the Welfare of all Your ships Crew who will be happy in having the Company of a Gentleman so curious [scrupulous] as Mr. De Reck.

It will give me a singular pleasure to transmit to Your uncle [J. von Reck] at Ratisbon any Account of Your welfare while You are abroad & Mr. Oglethorpe the Director of the Georgian affairs will be very glad to see a Gentleman of Your Genius so like his own for grand Enterprizes.

May God almighty give you long Life & Prosperity is the wish of

Sir   Your most obedient humble Servant   H. Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings 13 December 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Butienter at Dover.

Reverend Sir: I received Yours of the 11th Current and congratulate You on Mr. [Ph.] De Reck’s safe arrival with the Saltzburgers at Dover.

I hope all the hardships they have suffered in their Voyage will be intirely redressed by Your and Capt. Coram’s Care.

I have just now been with Mr. Symmonds the owner of the Purisburg who shewed me the articles between him and the Trustees for Georgia by which the Daily Allowance to the Passengers was 4 Days in the week Beef and Pudding 2 Days Pork and Peas I Day Fish and Butter with 14 Ounces of Bread and 3 or 4 Qts. of Water or Beer to each Person daily which is a larger Allowance than is given in our Men of War where the Sailors never Complain. I told him that as they are great Lovers of Bread more than English People it would be reasonable to indulge them to have as much as they can eat and more than the Value would be saved in other Articles that he took a Memorandum to order the Captain to do it.

As to Rum Brandy Sugar Spices and Oatmeal Candles etc. he says they are plentifully provided by the order of the Trustees over and above the Ships allowance that the Capt. might not if he were inclined hinder them of reasonable refreshment.

Sir John Philipps and both his Sons being consulted about the plate are of Opinion it should be sent forward under the Care of Messrs. Bolzius and Gronau notwithstanding the Supply they have brought from Germany, they may hereafter be in two Congregations of Saltzburgers who may want the present Supply.

My humble Service to Messrs. Bolzius and Gronau wishing them & their little Flock all manner of Prosperity and to hear by all Opportunities from them.

I remain   Reverend Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

P.S.: My humble Services to Captain Coram.

Bartlet’s Buildings London December 15, 1733.   To James Oglethorpe Esq. in Georgia.

Honoured Sir: I have deferred troubling you with a Letter till I could send you some Account of the Saltzburgers designed for Georgia and partly from an Expectation of the happiness of seeing you in England though they that wish well to the Colony of Georgia would not be sorry if you could spare a little more of your time and prudent advice to that infant Establishment before you left it.

The Trustees for Georgia have undoubtly fully acquainted you from time to time of the Steps taken by them in conjunction with the Society, my Masters for procuring 300 Saltzburgers for Georgia, but their Labours hitherto have not prevailed with more than 40 of those People to venture to meet the Terrors of the Ocean. If this small Transport prove successful under your Patronage and the Blessing of divine Providence, there is reason to expect that more of their Countrymen & other persecuted Protestants will follow them as Ships can be prepared to carry them to America.

The Society were not a little concerned how to obtain a proper Director to carry them to Holland, but Heaven seems to have pointed out a Gentleman born for that Service [Ph. von Reck] so well qualified that when you have read the enclosed Letter from him, wrote partly on the Voyage to Holland, and finished on the Day of his Arrival at Dover, I believe I need say no more to make you in love with a Man that devotes himself with so much Zeal to the Service of the English Nation, with no View that appears, but the Glory of following your and other great Examples for the general Welfare of Mankind. He is the Nephew of Monsieur [J.] de Reck, the King’s Hanover Minister at Ratisbourne, under whose care he has had a liberal Education,²⁴ which joyned to his great Genius, if it please God to spare his life, may in time form him for some signal Service.

Every Body that wishes well to old England are pleased to read in our News papers now & then of the Prosperity of Georgia, under Mr. Oglethorpe’s administration. And Governor Belcher in his last Letter to me laments that he is not like to see you in New England, though the People of that Province are all prepared to contend who shall shew you most respect, if you vouchsafe to honour with your Presence in your return home.

May Almighty God prosper and defend you in all your Enterprizes, for his Glory and the good of Mankind is the sincere Wish of

Sir   your most obedient Servant   Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings December 18, 1733.   To Mr. Von Reck at Dover.

Dear Mr. Commissary: I received your kind Letter of 27th Current N.S. with your Letter of the same Date to Monsieur Symonds which I immediately forwarded to him wherein you seem to have dexterously balanced Accounts for all past differences relating to the Conduct of the Captain of the Purisbourg [Fry] and I hope he will let you know his Entire satisfaction for the paternal part you have acted in your charge hitherto which is abundantly confirmed by the Reverend Mr. Butienter who is safely returned and desires his compliments may be acceptable to you and Your Fellow Travellers particularly to Messieurs Bolzius and Gronau by whom also I beg mine may be accepted with thanks for their Letter of 18 Current which I hope to answer with some Books I am endeavouring to procure for their service on the Voyage to enable them to acquire the English Language. If the Ship should be detained by contrary winds till Saturday next they will go nigh to reach their hands.

I shewed all Your Letters to me to Mr. Vernon and others of Your friends here who are all very much pleased with Your Zeal and Discretion in discharge of Your Trust and hope the many good Qualities You are possessed of Presage Your being an Instrument in the hands of Providence of doing much good wherever Your Lot may be cast.

You cannot more regret Your not coming to London than your Friends here do their not having the Pleasure to see a Man that so easily naturalizes himself to all Countries. For fear Mr. Vernon should not be able to write to You by this Post he commissions me to send his humble Service to You at the same time that I assure You of being

Dear Sir   Your most Obedient Humble Servant
Henry Newman

P.S. My humble Service to Capt. Coram[.] I herewith return Mr. Symmonds’s Letter to You. Once more I wish You a Prosperous Voyage.

Bartlet’s Buildings London 18 December 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

Reverend & Dear Sir: My last was of the 4th Current since which I have received Yours of the 7th Current N.S. and am glad to acquaint You that the Court here have reported their Orders to the British Minister at Vienna to renew his Sollicitations to his Imperial Majesty in behalf of such Emigrants as may come Your way to be admitted into the City of Augsburg.

The Purysburg after the Embarkation of the Saltzburgers at Roterdam under the Care of the Indefatigable Mr. [Ph.] Von Reck was detained about 14 Days by Contrary winds and thro’ the Carelessness of the Dutch Pilot ran on a Bank of Sand in the Maese [Meuse, Maas] where she lay 2 days without any other Damage than being hindered proceeding on her Voyage and frightening the new mariners.

But soon after their putting out to Sea they happily arrived at Dover the 11th Current where all their Sorrows were turned into joy and nothing was wanting to give them a proper welcome to the British Shore, they were all invited the next Day to Dine in a large house lent by the Magistrates of the Town for that purpose where they were regaled with roasted Sirloins of Beef and Plumb pudding having marched thro’ the Town in great Order to the place of Entertainment singing of Hymns with Mr. Commissary [J. von Reck] at their head and 2 Clergymen closing the Precession[,] abundance of the Neighbouring Gentry resorting to partake of the Pleasure of this new Sight.

I cannot Express to You the Praises Mr. Von Recks conduct has brought upon him for his Paternal Care of these Emigrants both in Holland and on their Voyage hither, so that the Trustees for Georgia and the Society are highly pleased with his prudent behaviour which Surpasses their Expectation from a Gentleman of his Years and they hope pressages if it pleases God to spare his Life, his being a usefull Instrument in the hands of Providence of much good to these and all other Colonists that may hereafter resort to Georgia.

His Friends here would have been glad to have seen him at London if that would have Consisted with his proceeding in this Ship which now waits only for a fair Wind. In the mean time the Saltzburgers all lie a shore refreshing themselves till they can depart and Mr. Butjenter who went to see them on the part of the Society has by their Order made proper Presents to Mr. Commissary & Messrs. Bolzius and Gronau and to every Man & Woman above 20 Years of age a present of 20 s to those under 20 & above 12 a present of 10 s & to all under 12 Years 5 s to lay out as they please I am

Reverend & Dear Sir   Your most humble Servant
Henry Newman

My humble Service to Mr. Vat.

Bartlet’s Buildings 22 December 1733.   To the Reverend Messrs. Bolzius & Gronau.

Reverend Sirs:   I received Your Obliging Letter of the 13th Current from Dover, the Contents of which were very acceptable to the Society as they gave them assurances of Your Constancy and Steadiness to pursue the Voyage You had undertaken to Georgia notwithstanding the discouragements that happened at Your first Embarkation.

This was a confirmation to them of the good Character Mr. Professor Franck had before given of Your Zeal and abilities for the Service You had so laudibly devoted Your Selves to, wherein they doubt not but the God who has inclined You thus to consecrate Your Labours to his Glory will continue to guide and Support You and make You Blessings not only to the Flock You have accepted the Charge of, but to the Country where Your Lot maybe Cast.

Mr. Ziegenhagen having Signified to the Society Your desire of Acquiring the English Language in Your Voyage, I was ordered to procure and send to You as a present from them Mr. Lodowig’s Dictionary and Grammar printed some Years since at Leipswick [Leipzig] I am glad to acquaint You that tho’ they are very scarce I have met with them and sent them Yesterday morning by the Dover Coach directed to You at Mr. Minet’s[,] Carriage paid 2/6 d. My humble Service to Mr. [Ph.] Von Reck and assure him of my best Wishes attending You and him And all Your Fellow Travellers that it may please God to Grant You and them health and a prosperous Voyage to Georgia and the Multiplication of his Blessings after Your arrival, of which I shall be glad to be informed whenever You have opportunity to give that pleasure to

Reverend Sirs   Your most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

My humble Service to Capt. Coram.

London 21 December 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Prof. [G. A.] Franck. at the Orphan House at Hall in Saxony.

Reverend Sir: I received in due time Your most acceptable Letter of the 19 November N.S. which being laid before the Society was read and heard with that attention which is always given upon reading a Letter from Professor Franck.

In answer to the first part of it, the Society think themselves very much obliged to You and have ordered me to send their hearty Thanks for the Care You have taken to recommend to the Trustees for Georgia and to the Society, two Gentlemen so well qualified for Minister and Catechist to the Saltzburgers in Georgia as Messrs. Bolzius and Gronau are represented to be.

The Society have agreed to allow the Minister 50 £ Sterling per Annum and the Catechist 30 £ to commence from the time of their departure from Hall and prevailed with the Reverend Mr. Butjenter one of their Members to go down to the Port of Dover where the Transport ship now lies to see that they are provided with all necessaries particularly to advance to them half a Year of their Salaries and to present them with such Plate and other Furniture for the Holy Communion as could be got ready at so short a Warning and also 20 s to each Person above 20 Years of age, 10 s to every Saltzburger above 12 and under 20 Years old, and 5 s to all under 12 Years of Age. One of the Trustees for Georgia [Capt. Coram] was likewise sent to Dover on the part of their Corporation to welcome them to England to see them provided with all necessary accommodations on board the ship Purysburg.

In answer to the latter part of Your Letter about contributing towards building an Hospital in Prussia for old decrepid Saltzburgers the Society entertain so high an Esteem for every Proposal that comes from Professor Franck that they heartily wish it were in their power to comply with this, but in the present Instance, it is with great regret that they direct me to inform You that the Principal Benefactors towards relieving the Saltzburgers have confined their Bounty to such of them as shall accept of a Settlement in His Majesty’s Dominions in America, agreeably to which the Society have already engaged to settle more Saltzburgers in Georgia than the Sums hitherto collected will enable them to do, notwithstanding the liberal Assistance given by the Trustees for that New Colony out of the Parliamentary Funds towards defraying the charge of their Transportation.

You will easily be convinced of this when I acquaint You that the Society have out of the Casual Benefactions for this Service at several times since March 1732 remitted to the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg 1482 £ 4 s 6 d Sterling part of which has been applied towards relieving those Emigrants who went to Prussia, beside this, the Society have thought it incumbent on them to secure an effectual Provision for supporting a Minister, a Catechist and Schoolmaster to those who have left their Native Country and Friends for the sake of Religion by appropriating 2000 £ for that Service and they have accordingly lodged that Sum in the publick Funds. So that considering the Charge of the present Transport of 40 what remains will not suffice to defray one Third or perhaps One Quarter of the Expence of the number to compleat 300 which they have commissioned Mr. Urlsperger to collect and send to Roterdam, where the Trustees for Georgia receive them at their Expence.

But as in all Cases of this nature it cannot be foreseen what may be the Extent of the charge accrewing to it the Society rely on the same good Disposition of their Contributors who have enabled them to go so far as they have, to raise such further supplies as shall be necessary to accomplish the Deign of making a good Settlement for these Emigrants in Georgia.

The Society congratulate You on the gracious reception his Majesty of Prussia has given you in your late Journey to Berlin. God be praised for all the Effects of his Royal Bounty to Your University and Orphan house, and may they continue to make his Virtues illustrious to all Posterity.

I am also to thank You in the name of the Society for all the Charitable and liberal Remittances You have annually made in favour of the Protestant Mission to the East Indies, particularly to the Establishment at Madras which owes its Origin to that at Tranquebar and both of them their beginning to Your most worthy Father [A. H. Francke] whose Memory is dear to all good Christians.

I doubt not but Mr. Ziegenhagen has transmitted to You the many agreeable accounts which came to my hands from the Missionaries of both Establishments last Summer which seem to promise a glorious Harvest in the age to come, and by the order of the Society, I am now preparing to send to them every thing they have desired, on a presumption of having leave so to do by the East India Company here.

The Reverend Mr. Rodde at Narva has earnestly recommended to the Society the promoting an Impression at Hall of Arndtius de vero Christianismo in the Russian Language by Russian Types in your Printing House, presented many Years ago by good Mr. Ludolph Secretary to Prince George of Denmark.²⁵ The Society would be glad to have Your Opinion of that Proposal and whereabouts may be the charge of an Edition of 1000 Copies and the difference of that and 2000 Copies and whether You will not think a Book of less Bulk and Expence more proper.

I am   Reverend and Dear Sir   Your most Obliged humble Servant   Henry Newman

P.S. My humble Service to Your Fellow Labourer Mr. Freylinghausen upon whose recovery from a fit of Apoplexy I heartily congratulate him and you.

Bartlet’s Buildings 22 December 1733.   To Capt. Coram at Mr. Minet’s at Dover.

Sir: If the Contrary Winds have still detained the Purysburg I hope the packet of Books sent by last Thursdays Coach will get to Messrs. Bolzius and Gronau before she sails.

I have just now a Letter from Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg of the 17 Current N.S. by which Mr. Schumacker who attended the Saltzburgers as their Chaplain to Roterdam was just then returned and had left 2 Ships at Nimuegen laden with Tirnbergers in their way to Franckfort from the Reverend²⁶ of Cassant [Cadzand] that many of them were sick dead or dying.

That they Expect a large Embarkation of 1000 more Saltzburgers as soon as the Snow falls upon the mountains of that Country So many being minuted down for leave to depart in the several Courts of the Archbishoprick.

Mr. Urlsperger desires me to acquaint Mr. [Ph.] Von Reck if he had not left Dover that he hopes before he leaves England he will transmit to him an Account of the laying out of the Guilders he received from him at Augsburg as well as of what he took up on Credit at Franckfort and in Holland which please to acquaint him with.

Pray give my humble Service to him and to Messrs. Bolzius and Gronau and assure them of my hearty Wishes for a prosperous Voyage to them and all the Colonists.

Capt. Bonner is just now arrived from Boston by whom advice is come that Governor Belcher has gained another point from the Assembly viz. an Order to rebuild the Fort at Pemaguid according to Orders from hence but then as I’m Informed they intend that at Casco Bay should be demolished and transplant the Garrison to Pemaguid as a Barrier between us and new France of which You may have a more particular Account in the Prints as also of their having voted 3000 £ for Governor Belcher Children and 76 Thousand pounds to Supply the Treasury to pay two Years Arrears to Officers etc.

I wish You a safe return and all the pleasures Spiritual and Temporal of the approaching Festival Being

Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

Mr. Butjenter got well to Town, not a little pleased with his Journey.

Bartlet’s Buildings London 27 December 1733.   To Mr. [Ph.] Von Reck at Dover.

Dear Sir: Your detention at Dover by contrary wind gives me once more the Opportunity of Saluting You and Your Fellow Travellers.

Since my last to You I received a Letter from Mr. Urlsperger the 17th Current N.S. wherein he desires me to tell You if You had not left England that he wishes You could transmit to him if You had not Already done it An Account of Your Disbursements on the Saltzburgers from Augsburg to Roterdam.

And upon reading that part of his Letter to the Society relating to such an Account I was ordered to desire You would favour them with a Copy of it in that Language which is most familiar to You; Mr. Urlsperger writes that there are among the Saltzburgers some Proselytes from Popery[.] the Society hope there are not many such and desire You and Messrs. Bolzius and Gronau would keep a Watchfull Eye over them that they do not by any misbehaviour disorder those who have sincerely left their Country for the Sake of Religion particularly to have a care of the Wirtsberg Cook [Schweikert] whom the Society are informed would have imposed upon a Shopkeeper at Dover if You had not prevented him since the misconduct of such man may do more mischief than the good behaviour of ten honest men may bring credit to the reputation of the Emigrants.

I am glad to understand by Messrs. Bolzius and Gronau’s Letter of the 24 Current that they have received Ludowig’s Grammar and Dictionary, and doubt not their making the best use they can of them. Our German Missionaries to East India commonly get the English Language in their Voyage thither, but I hope Your Voyage will not be long enough for that purpose, beside the Conversation will be mixed which on bord an English Ship is for the most part entirely English.

The Society hope by Captain Coram’s and your prudence all difficulties with the Captain of the Purysburg will be wholly removed.

I once more wish you and Your Company health and a Prosperous Voyage and remain

Dear Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant   Henry Newman

Mr. Urlsperger sends his Complements to You and the Ministers & to Mr. Zweibler [Zwiffler] the Apothecary and please to give mine to Mr. Ortmann the Schoolmaster.

Bartlet’s Buildings 27 December 1733.   To Capt. Coram at Mr. Minet’s at Dover.

Sir: I received Your favour of the 22nd Current and this day Communicated it to the Society, who have ordered me to thank You for it.

And as there were some particulars in it proper to be known to the Trustees for Georgia, Mr. Vernon borrowed it to lay before them at their Meeting next Saturday.

Every Body is pleased at Your Resolution to Stay till a fair Wind carrys the Purysburg out of Dover for fear of some accident which Your Experience and Prudence might soon set right.

Pray let me know in Your next whether Mr. [Ph] Von Reck understands English enough to read my Letters without an Interpreter. You will See by the Enclosed Print that the Town is not uninformed of what passes at Dover relating to the Saltzburgers which I find Yours to Mr. Vernon Confirms.

Your observation of a Persecution rising in Saxony was new to the Society, and they wish it may not prove true, but the Tyranny of Antichrist will not cease without making some extraordinary Convulsion in Christendom, out of which Evil God Almighty will undoubtedly bring good to the Protestant Interest.

I wish You a safe return to your Family and Friends and remain

Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 28 December 1733.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlspreger at Augsburg.

Reverend Sir: My last was of the 18th Current since which I received Yours of the 17th Current & Mr. Vat’s of the same date both which relating to one Subject were this Day laid before the Society and deliberately considered.

The Society have never been informed of any misunderstanding between the Commissary Mr. [Ph.] Von Reck and Messrs. Bolzius and Gronau the Minister and Catechist but the contrary has appeared to the Society in Mr. Von Reck’s desiring that Orders might be given that the Captain of the Purysburg should afford them as good accommodations in the Great Cabbin as the Commissary himself had, which the Trustees for Georgia have taken care of.

Upon receit of Your last Letter I have desired Mr. Von Reck if still detained at Dover to send You an Account of his Disbursements on the Road to Rotterdam and of the application of the Money he took up on account of the Saltzburgers at Augsburg, Franckfort and Rotterdam.

The Society are not at present in a Capacity to undertake for receiving more than 300 Saltzburgers including those already in their way to Georgia but in order to encourage further Contributions to so good a Service they are about to publish an Account how the whole that has been already collected has been applied[,] and to render such an Account more perfect I am ordered to desire You would with Your first Convenience transmit to the Society a partial Account of all the Sums you have disbursed for the Saltzburgers including the Transport to Rotterdam as also what further Engagements You are under on Account of them and the Tirnbergers and that You will likewise let the Society know what Sum remains in your hands.

I have herewith Sent a particular Account of the Remittances made to You amounting to 1482 £ 4 s 6 d Sterling wherein if there be any mistake You will be so good as to rectify it.

I don’t find but our Family of Saltzburgers at Dover are all very easie under their confinement by a Contrary wind where I doubt not but Care is taken to Supply all their wants.

I have by order of the Society sent Ludowig’s Grammar and Dictionary in 2 Volumes each to Messrs. Bolzius and Gronau to enable them in their Voyage to acquire some insight into our Language, so as to be able to converse in it when they come to Georgia.

I shall take Care to remit to You the Value of the 5 Medals by the first Opportunity; please to let Mr. Vat know that his friend Colonel Valogne is well just returned from Bath where he left his Friend Governor Shute well and that we both send our humble Service to him. I remain

Reverend & Dear Sir   Your most humble Servant
Henry Newman

NB. Enclosing Copy of my Letter of the 6 November 1733 which Mr. Urlsperger’s of the 17 December N.S. signifys had miscarried.

Bartlet’s Buildings London 8th January 1733/34. To Mr. [Ph.] Von Reck at Dover.

Sir: I received your favour of the 11th Current N.S. and had this day the opportunity of laying that and your Account before the Society who were not a little pleased and have ordered me to give you their Thanks for them and for your great care and Diligence in conducting the Emigrants and to desire that you would pay the Ballance in your hands of 184 Guilders and 36 Cruitzers or whatever it be to Mr. Isaac Minet at the Exchange[.] he and you shall Agree upon taking 2 Receits for the same viz. one for your self and the other to be transmitted to William Tillard Esq. in Spital Square London without Bishopsgate the Receit to Express that Mr. Minet will be accountable to Mr. Tillard or his order for the same in behalf of the Society. I am also to desire if you have leisure for to send a short Account of the Families of the Saltzburgers in the present Transport their Names circumstances and what they have left behind in the Arch Bishoprick of Saltzburg.

You signify that your Experience in the first Transport has informed you in the means of conducting 200 Persons at very near the same Expence as this has Cost, the Society would be glad to know in what articles and by what measures you would propose to save expence in a future transport to Roterdam.

They are glad to observe your chearfull Resignation to God Almighty’s pleasure in detaining your Ship by contrary Winds; We see but a little way into the Designs of Providence and as there are come advices of several Ships falling of late into great distress by the bad weather they have met with perhaps your detention at Dover has prevented the like disasters to the Purysburg.

You will always have the best wishes of the Society to attend you in your Voyage to Georgia wherein joyns most heartily.

Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant   Henry Newman

P.S.: I have forwarded both your Packets to Germany and shall send your Account to Mr. Urlsperger[.] my humble Service to Messrs. Bolzius and Gronau.

Bartlet’s Buildings London 8 January 1733/34. To Mr. Isaac Minet Merchant at Dover.

Sir: Mr. [Ph.] Von Reck having signified to the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge that he had a Ballance of Money in his hands of 104 German Guilders and 36 Crutizers [Kreutzers] which he is ready to pay to their order I have wrote to him by this Post to desire him to pay it to you at the Exchange you and he shall agree upon which you are desired to receive and to give him two Receits viz: one for himself and the other for Mr. Tillard Esq. in Spital Square London to be accounted for to him in behalf of the Society.

Your goodness in favouring the Saltzburgers on Several occasions induces the Society to hope you will excuse the trouble of this application from

Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

P.S. You may please to Signify by a line to Mr. Tillard or me when You have settled this affair.

London 8th January 1733 /34. To the Reverend Mr. Richard Lowther at Roterdam.

Reverend Sir: I read your favour of the 4th of Last Month N.S. and sent the Society’s thank for it the 4 of the same month O.S. The Purisburg arrived at Dover 11th of December where they have been ever since detained by Westerley winds but that detention has given them opportunity to furnish themselves with every necessary that the Emigrants could be thought to want in their Voyage as the Enclosed Print will inform you which I have sent to You by order of Severall Worthy Members of the Society that You may Republish what may be thought proper in the Holland News Papers to inform other Emigrants that may hereafter be inclined to go to Georgia what usage they may Expect in their way thither.

The Clergymen are now received into the great Cabin and the Captain of the Purisburg treats them and Mr. [Ph.] Von Reck with great Respect[.] While the Emigrants are at Dover they are kept on Shore at a house taken for that purpose where they Seem much pleased with their quarters.

The Prince of Orange set out this day sennight for the Bath by easy journeys and Expresses come almost every day bringing an Account of his Journey’s agreing very well with him so that ’tis Supposed he arrived there Yesterday if not before.

I am   Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant
Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 15th January 1733/34. To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg in Suabia.

Reverend Sir: I received Yours and Mr. Vat’s Letters of 17 of last month & answered them the 28 of December O.S. only one p[art] of Mr. Vat’s I could not answer till I had the Direction of the Trustees for Georgia who have Signified their answer thereto in the words hereafter written which You will please to Communicate to Mr. Vat.

I have received none from Mr. Vat or You since the Letters of the 17th last month but this Day Mr. Ziegenhagen laid before the Society a translation of Your Letter to him of the 7th Current N.S. relating to several particulars of importance which I am ordered to lay before the Trustees for Georgia to direct an Answer to those Articles wherein they are chiefly concerned and the same will be done at their next meeting.

The Society were very much concerned at the Account you gave of Mr. Vat’s indisposition and would be glad to hear by your next of his recovery[.] in the mean time I am ordered to desire that You would defray all the Expences of his Journey from Switzerland to Augsburg and during his residence there till further Orders, there being a Prospect of another Transport sometime next Spring in which he will be serviceable if it please God to recover him. The Society are very sensible of your great civilities to him and thank you for receiving him into your house where they hope he will want for nothing that may be necessary for his recovery, the charge of which they desire You will put to their Account as mentioned above.

My Last informed you of the arrival of the Saltzburgers under Mr. Von Reck’s care at Dover the 11th December[.] I am glad to acquaint you that after they had been detained 4 Weeks at Dover by Contrary winds and plentifully refreshed themselves to their entire Satisfaction they Sailed the 8th Current in the Morn with a fair wind which has continued by Gods mercy ever since, so that there is reason to hope they are now far on their Voyage out of the Channel.

I must observe to You that while they were detained at Dover by Contrary Winds there happened several Storms in which many Ships were lost on the Coasts of England and Ireland but they Escaped them by being in a good Harbour which tis hoped is a presage of their safely proceeding under Gods Protection the rest of their Voyage.

Of their reception in England and their Satisfaction while they Staid here You will judge somewhat from the Authentick Account given in the inclosed News Papers some extract of which You may perhaps think proper to publish in Germany as I believe has been already done in Holland.

Mr. [Ph.] Von Reck sent a particular Account of his Draughts on You and his Disbursements on the Emigrants, open to me, to be forwarded to You which consists of several Sheets of paper and Shall be sent to You by the first Convenient Opportunity after I have examined a Copy of it with the Translator.

I shall follow your directions in Superscribing my future Letters to You and desire you will direct all Your Letters to me here, but You need not take Notice of my being Secretary to the Society for fear of giving umbrage to some people that may malign our Correspondence.

I heartily wish to hear of Mr. Vat’s recovery and pray God to give you & him an happy new year and many more to follow this with his choicest Blessings on you and Your family, and remain

Reverend & Dear Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

The Society are now engaged in dispatching a Cargo of money Books etc. to the Missionaries at Fort St. George²⁷ and Tranquebar which in a manner Engages all my time.

The Resolution of the Trustees for Georgia in answer to that part of Mr. Vat’s last Letter from Augsburg of the 17th Current N.S. which relates to the Quantity of Land given to the Emigrants for Georgia in the following words viz. “The Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America have made no distinction between the Saltzburgers and those of the English who went in the first Embarkation and have even granted them better Terms than the English in later Embarkations.

“The Trustees gave no more than 50 Acres for every family to those English who went at first, and grant no more than 40 to those who go at present. If they give the same number of Acres to a Single man it is with expectation he will marry and have a family. They will give 50 Acres to every person among the Saltzburgers for the same reason. As there is no distinction in the property, there will be none likewise in their Rights whether Civil or Religious.’’

To which the Trustee who made the Report adds, That it is likewise to be observed that the Grant of 50 Acres to every Person who Settles in Carolina or other of our Colonies is to such who transport themselves at their own charge whereas the Saltzburgers are defrayed at great Expence from Augsburg to Georgia and are maintained at the Expence of the Trustees in Georgia till such time as they can get in a Crop from the Land given them for their Maintenance.

Bartlet’s Buildings 22 January 1733/4. To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

Reverend Sir: My last was of the 15th Current in answer to Yours of the 17th of December since which I have had none from You till this day I received your favour of the 18 Current N.S. which I was glad to see in Mr. Vat’s hand and that he is recovered so much from his late illness as to be able to assist.

According to Your promise of my last I have sent as above a Copy of the minute of the Trustees for Georgia relating to Mr. Goebell’s kind offer in behalf of the Emigrants gone to Georgia[.]²⁸ I am sorry it is not in the power of the Trustees for Georgia nor of the Society to do that Service for the absent Emigrants, but the Trustees will be moved at their next meeting by one of their own Members to send forthwith to Georgia to Enquire what Effects the Emigrants lately gone thither have left behind them in Saltzbourg and to have a proper Authority from them to demand those Effects.

I am sorry to find You have not received mine of the 18th of the month of December which gave You an Account of the arrival of the Saltzburgers at Dover, their reception there and of the praises Mr. [Ph.] Von Reck’s conduct brought upon him both from English and Germanes and also the good Behaviour of Messrs. Bolzius and Gronau together with the presents made to the Saltzburgers by order of the Society of all which if Your next does not inform me that You have received it, I may give You the trouble of a Copy tho’ I believe You have had the Substance of it in other Letters.

I hope to Send Mr. Von Reck’s Account of Disbursements by the next Post in the King’s Packet under cover to his Uncle [J. von Reck] at Ratisbone. The Purisburg sailed the 8th of this month from Dover with a fair wind and since we have heard nothing of her, but that the wind continued fair for a week at least so that ’tis hoped she e’re this got into a warm Climate. My humble Service to Mr. Vat and please to believe that I am with great respect

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

I have no reason to believe that any of Your letters directed to me here ever miscarried but they always came a day before hand by being so directed and at half the Charge.

London Bartlet’s Buildings 23 January 1733 /34. A Monsieur Monsieur [J.] Von Reck Ministre de Sa Majeste Britan. à Ratisbone.

Honoured Sir: Your worthy Nephew [Ph. von Reck] who has accepted the Office of a Conductor to the Protestant Emigrants from Saltzburg gone to Georgia sent to me before he Sailed from Dover the Account herewith sent of his Disbursements on that Service from Augsburg to Roterdam with a desire that I would transmit it to the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg. You will excuse the Liberty I have taken to cover it to You in his Majesty’s Packet that it might come at less charge to Mr. Urlsperger.

The Society here who have been Sollicitous for the welfare of the Emigrants think themselves obliged to You for the many good Offices You have done them for which they have been informed by Mr. Urlsperger and they are not a little pleased that the Gentleman who has conducted them to England and is gone with them to Georgia has the honour to be Your relation, since he has acquired the esteem of every one and has given perfect Satisfaction to those under his Direction. He has I doubt not informed You of what has occurred here till the day of their departure from Dover which was the 8th Current O.S. under a fair wind which continued several Days, so that ’tis hoped we may hear early in the Spring of their safe arrival in Georgia of which I shall with Pleasure acquaint you as soon as I shall be able being

Sir   Your most obedient humble Servant   Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings 22 February 1733 /34, To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

Reverend and Dear Sir: I am ashamed to see my last was of the 22nd January but Mr. Vat can inform you how buisy I am in buying Things for the Mission in E. India Shipping and Writing Letters at this time of the Year[.] Since that I have your favours of the 8th & 15 February and this Day yours of the 18th Current N.S.[.] the two former have been laid before the Society and read[,] in answer to which the above Copy of mine of the 18th December which You signify never came to your hands is repeated and the Extract from Mr. Robinson at Vienna to my Lord Harrington one of His Majesty’s Principal Secretaries of State, added.

Your Last Letter is now translating and will be Communicated to the Society and Trustees for Georgia at their next meeting from whom you may Expect to hear as soon as I receive their Commands. In the mean time I am glad to hear Mr. Vat is so much recovered as to be Capable of Business, and hope it may be our Lot to see some of the Tirnbergers here, concerning which Your next Letters I expect will more particularly inform

Reverend & Dear Sir   Your most humble Servant
Henry Newman

I sent Mr. [Ph.] Von Reck’s Account to his uncle [J. von Reck] at Ratisbone the 23 of last month in the King’s Packet to be forwarded to You. My humble Service to Mr. Vat. When you have an Opportunity pray favour me with a Copy of your Picture to be put up in our Society’s Chamber such as Mr. Von Reck brought over but presented when I could only get a Sight of it.

I have desired Mr. Mayer to request his friend Mr. Munich to pay you 25 Florins for the 5 medals, which be pleased to Signify when it is done.

Bartlet’s Buildings London 1 March 1733 / 34. To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

Reverend & Dear Sir: Your Letters of the 18 and 22nd of February N.S. have been laid before the Trustees for Georgia and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge & both of them observe that the answer of the Tirnbergers to the proposal sent to them by You is not yet known and therefore till they have received from You the said answer and a Compleat List of such persons as shall Signify their desire to Settle in Georgia they cannot Send their further Resolution and Instructions thereupon.

I am ordered to observe to you that the Expence of a Transporttation of Persons from Germany to Georgia amounts to a much greater Sum than was at first imagined and that a large Sum being placed out in one of our publick Funds viz. 2000 £ to answer the Salaries of the two Ministers that are lately gone with the Saltzburgers, makes both Societies apprehensive that they are hardly at present in a Condition to transport and Settle so large a number as 270 persons but they are using their utmost Endeavours to raise Contributions for the fulfilling their Engagements of making up the Number to 300.

In the mean while it is recommended to You not to Suffer any to be put into the List that are not Emigrants from Saltzburg on Account of their adherence to the Protestant Religion[.] the collection made by this Society must be applied Solely for their Use.

My humble Service to Mr. Vat of whose perfect recovery I shall be glad to hear and please to believe that I am

Reverend Sir   Your most obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

P.S. I hope you have received the Account of Mr. [Ph.] Von Reck’s Disbursements to Dover which I sent to you under Cover to his good Uncle [J. von Reck] at Ratisbonne.

Bartlet’s Buildings 16 March 1733/34. To the Reverend Dr. Pardo Principal of Jesus College Oxon [Oxford].

Reverend Sir: According to your desire last month I have this day directed a Roll of 26 Memorials to the Reverend Dr. Conybeare in favour of the Emigrants from Saltzburg being one for each College and Hall addressed to the Vice Chancellor & Heads of Houses with a Letter to the Dean of Christ Church Dr. Smyth D. Cockman Dr. Pardo Dr. Foulkes and Dr. Felton requesting Your good Offices to recommend it to the Vice Chancellor for his approbation and recommendation of it to all the Heads of Houses in your University. The packet goes by one of the Coaches hence next monday morning Carriage paid here.

I did not till since sending it away know that Dr. Conybeare is to be in London next week to preach at the King’s Chappel or I would have directed it to you in his Absence, but if the Dean [Conybeare] has left Oxford before it comes to hand pray let Your Servant enquire after it and please to open it as if it had been directed to you.

While the Society are meditating to wait on the Vice Chancellor in London they were advised that he was returned to Oxford to attend the Prince of Orange and now it is said he is coming to London again but I hope before he leaves Oxford you will with the other Gentlemen mentioned be able to wait on him with the Memorial to recommend the Affair in the most respectfull manner.

I am,   Reverend and Dear Sir Your most humble Servant
Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings 21 March 1733/34. To the Reverend Dr Cockman near Bartholomew Close.

Reverend Sir: I took the Liberty of troubling you the beginning of the week with a Letter directed to the Dean of Christ Church [Conybeare] your Self and Several others Members of the Society at Oxford requesting that you would be pleased to recommend a Memorial from the Society therewith sent to the Vice Chancellor and other Heads of Houses that they would vouchsafe to encourage in their respective Colleges and Halls a charitable Collection in favour of the Protestant Emigrants from Saltzburg. But while this Letter and 26 Copies of the Memorial were in the Stage Coach on the Road to Oxford, it seems the Dean and many of those worthy Gentlemen on whose good Offices the Society depended were set out with the Vice Chancellor for London which will necessarily delay for some time the Design of the Memorial, but if while You are in Town the Society may be favoured with your good Company they will be glad to see you particularly at their meeting here next Tuesday morning by 11 or 12 o’Clock to have your advice therein. I am

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings 21 March 1733/34. To the Reverend Dr. Smyth Provost of Queen’s College at Oxford at his House in the Square at Paddington.

Reverend Sir: I acquainted the Society how kindly You had prepared the Vice Chancellor of Oxford to expect an Application from them in favour of the Protestant Emigrants from Saltzburg which they are very Thankfull for, and if it can consist with your Conveniency to Favour them with your company here next Tuesday Morning by Eleven or 12 o’Clock they will be glad of your advice thereon. I am

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings 26 March 1734. A Monsieur Monsieur de Münch Banquier à Augsburg en Suabia. To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger.

Reverend Sir: My last was of the first Current since which I have your Favour of the 18th Current N.S. enclosing one from the Magistracy of Franckfort and Communicated it to the Society who have directed me to acquaint You that they readily concur with those worthy Magistrates of Franckfort in their Opinion that those Families of the Tirnbergers in which the Men are dead and none left but Women and Young Children are unfit for undertaking such a Voyage or for the managing and Cultivating the Lands to be granted to them in Georgia and therefore are not to be desired by us. but as to the objection of the unhealthiness of the Place from the Neighbourhood of the Sea they answer that the Trustees have given orders that the Transport already gone are to be Settled above 20 Miles from the Sea; and that care will be taken to fix the poor Tirnbergers as near as possible to their Countrymen, that the Air is good and the Land high and Dry,²⁹ which was not the Case in Cassant [Cadzand] and therefore the Society are Still willing to hope that such of the Tirnberg Families where the men are living and fit for Labour and the undertaking of such a Voyage will accept of the Offers made them and that whenever such a Number of them shall come to a Resolution, You will immediately transmit to the Society such a List of Persons and Qualifications as you sent me before: And when they are ready to set out on their Journey You will dispatch Mr. Vat to Franckfort in order to conduct them and give me notice of every thing relating to the Transport that Shipping may be provided at Rotterdam to meet them. I am

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 2 April 1734. A Monsieur Monsieur de Münch Banquier à Augsburg en Suabia. To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger.

Reverend Sir: I received by last post your Letter of the 22nd March N.S. and this day acquainted the Society with the Contents of it, who finding the Tirnbergers are unwilling to go to Georgia have ordered me to desire you would let them know whether you have good reason to believe any more Protestant Exiles will come from Saltzburg and if they should whether it’s likely that they will be better disposed than the Tirnbergers to go to Georgia, or if they should shew an Inclination to come whether they be permitted at this time to leave Germany.

They request Your answer to this in as short a Time as Possible because if there be no immediate Prospect of Saltzburgers willing to go to Georgia, they shall look upon themselves disengaged from their former Proposals and at Liberty to receive other Persecuted Protestants who have been driven from their Country for their Religion and have actually made application to be sent to Georgia.

I am   Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant
Henry Newman

My last Letter was of the 26 March and pray give my humble Service to Mr. Vat.

Bartlet’s Buildings 9th April 1734.   To the Reverend Dr. Pardo Principal of Jesus College Oxon [Oxford].

Reverend Sir: Upon reading Your Letter of the 7th Current to Sir John Philipps, the Society have ordered me to acquaint You that they exactly followed Your directions in a former Letter by writing to your Self and the rest of the heads of houses who are members of this Society desiring you and them to recommend the miserable Case of the Distressed Saltzburgers to the Vice Chancellor [Dr. Holmes] and to deliver to him the Memorials enclosed for his approbation and consent to make and receive collections in your University.

The Society thought this the most proper way of applying to him especially since Dr. Smith and Mr. Wilson last year laid the Case fully before him and at his desire it was put off till this time. I endeavoured twice to wait on the Vice Chancellor at his Lodgings when he was last in Town, but he was constantly engaged that I had not the honour of Seeing him.

The Society therefore desire you will be so good as to take an Opportunity as soon as possible to set this matter in a proper light to the Vice Chancellor and they doubt not but upon recollection You will find that they have done every thing in their power to make this application in as respectfull a manner as possible.

They desire also that you will return their Thanks to the Vice Chancellor for his kind readiness in sending and recommending the Memorial relating to the Saltzburgers to every College in Oxford and present their Service to you[,] at the same time I assure you that

I am   Reverend and Dear Sir   Your most obedient humble Servant   Henry Newman

London 9th April 1734. A Monsieur Monsieur Christopher Charles Louis de P. feil [Pfeil] Secretaire de l’Embassy de son Altesse le Duc de Wirtemberg à Ratisbonne en Allemagne.

Sir: I had the honour of your Letter of the 21st last Month N.S. addressed to me as Secretary of the Trustees for establishing the new Colony of Georgia with a Packet for the Trustees but tho’ I have not the honour to Serve them in that Capacity I took Care immediately to convey the Packet to them and you may be assured that it will be Submitted to their Consideration at their next meeting from whom you may expect an Answer by their Secretary Mr. Martyn, in the meantime You will please to be assured that I am with great respect

Honoured Sir   Your most obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

To the Reverend Dr. Cockman Master of University College Oxford.

Dear Sir: I have been with the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge this Day, who are in hopes to hear soon from You how you have Succeeded in your application for the poor Saltzburgers. It is thought proper to acquaint you that this Society and the Trustees for Georgia have endeavoured to procure a further No. of those Exiles to settle in Georgia but they have hitherto refused that Offer and the Archbishop of Saltzburg uneasy at the Loss of so many of his Subjects and the War now breaking out he has thought fit to use milder methods for which reasons we do not expect at present any more Emigrants from thence and being Sollicited by several of our poor persecuted Brethren expelled for the Profession of the Gospel from the Valleys of Piedmont and who are yet unsettled.

We hope you will not think that it will be at all wrong in us to apply some part of the money Collected for the use of the Saltzburgers towards Settling the other Exiles in Georgia[.] some of the most considerable of the Contributors in this Town are of this Opinion and we should be glad of your Thoughts in this Affair. It may perhaps be proper to Communicate this to your Brethren and Heads of houses if you think it will not put any Stop to the present Collection.

Our Design in these Contributions is to assist poor persecuted Protestants[.] when we first Set about it, those from Saltzburg were the most distressed[.] whenever they are disposed to accept of the Offers made to Settle them in Georgia we hope to have money for that Use. Till then we think we may receive other Distressed Protestants who have Suffered great Calamities and are disposed to Settle in Georgia.

I shall be glad to have a Line from you to Lay before the Society next Tuesday and if You have any Doubts, I shall take their Directions to Obviate them but pray let nothing that I have said be mentioned to anyone who shall take Occasion to put a Stop to your Charitable Design of assisting the Persecuted & Distressed Protestants. I am

Your most Obedient and most humble Servant   Tho. Wilson

Bartlet’s Buildings

16 April 1734.

Bartlet’s Buildings 23 April 1734.   To the Reverend Dr. Cockman Master of University College Oxford.

Dear Sir: I laid before the Society Your Letter and they order me to acquaint you that they have received a Letter from Mr. Urlsperger this day who tells them that there is a prospect of more Emigrants from Saltzburg who perhaps will be prevailed upon to Settle in Georgia. This has occasioned the Society to think Seriously of this affair and continue in their former Resolutions of making Collections for the persecuted Saltzburgers only, till they are assured no more of these poor people will be drove out of their Country and accept of the Offer made them of Settling in Georgia.

The Society therefore beg You would encourage the Collection upon the footing of the Memorial now lying before You [.] and they will lay it out for the use of the poor Sufferers.

You will therefore be so kind as to acquaint the Dean with the reason of the Society’s still keeping to their former Engagements of Settling a further No. of Exiles of Saltzburg in Georgia as soon as ever they shall be desirous of going thither.

The Society thank You heartily for your kind Intentions to wards the poor Sufferers and doubt not but they will soon hear of the Success of your endeavours for their Relief.

I am Your most Affectionate and most Obliged Humble Servant
Tho. Wilson

To the Worshipful Dr. Holmes Vice-Chancellor, and the rest of the Heads of Houses of the University of Oxford.

The Memorial of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge

That they have (by Permission obtained from his most Gracious Majesty) undertaken a Collection for the Relief of the Distressed Subjects of the Archbishoprick of Saltzburg harrassed by many Cruelties and at last driven out of their native Country for refusing and rejecting the Errors of the Church of Rome and for their Stedfast adherence to the Protestant Faith.

They have laid before the Publick two Several [separate] Accounts of the Sufferings of these Persecuted People which by the Blessing of God has moved the Hearts of many pious persons to contribute towards their Support. Several of the Right Reverend the Bishops recommended this Charity earnestly in their Dioceses and considerable Sums have been by their Sollicitations returned to Us. Many of the Nobility Bishops Judges and Gentry and all Ranks of People have chearfully contributed to this good Work, as has also the University of Cambridge who have distinguished themselves by a Liberal Collection.

That notwithstanding the money thus gathered (of the application of which some Account has already been given and a further is preparing to be published) They find themselves unable effectually to carry on the good Work they have so happily begun[,] their Stock being near Exhausted by the Settlement procured for a number of those Emigrants in his Majesty’s New Colony of Georgia[,] By the provision they have made for the Support of Two Clergymen gone over with these poor People[,] and by several large Summs remitted to Augsburg which have been laid out for the immediate Relief of such of the said poor Sufferers at their first arrival there in the Depth of Winter Stript and destitute of all things.

That they are now called upon afresh to Exert their Christian Charity in behalf of a considerable number whom they are Engaged to bring to the Trustees of Georgia to be Settled in that Colony.

They can’t better hope to Execute this Charitable Design than by applying in this Emergency to the University of Oxford, whose Learning & Zeal in the most Dangerous Times have been the Great Bulwark and Support of the Protestant Cause in this Kingdom and who have upon all proper Occasions Enlarged their Compassion and Charity for the good of the Protestant Churches abroad whenever persecuted and Oppressed.

That Nothing can more Strongly express the rage of Popish Persecution than the present cruel and Barbarous Treatment of the protestant Subjects of Saltzburg where their Prince out of hatred to their Religion would sooner see his Country depopulated than Suffer a Protestant to live there.

All therefore who have a Sincere Love for Truth and a Value for their Holy Religion will exert themselves for the Relief of these distressed Emigrants and You Gentlemen who under a Popish Prince [James II]³⁰ felt the Effects of their cruel Superstition will have a more Sensible Compassion for those who now Suffer what You were providentially freed from by the late happy Revolution.

With Confidence therefore, we apply to the Vice Chancellor and Heads of houses desiring they would recommend the miserable Condition of these poor Exiles to their Respective Societies, who we assure our Selves will upon this Occasion give the World as Shining a proof of their Benevolence as they have upon all other Occasions done of their Learning Zeal and Charity.

Henry Newman Secretary

Bartlet’s Buildings London 11 June 1734. A Monsieur Monsieur de Münch Banquier à Augsburg en Suabia. To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger.

Reverend Sir: I received your favours of the 5th and 22nd of April and now of the 27th of May N.S. in answer to mine of the 2nd April O.S. which have been all laid before the Society, and read, who are glad to observe by your last that there are still some Protestant Emigrants expected from Saltzburg, particularly from the District of Hallein, some of whom you doubt not may be disposed to go to Georgia but you are desired to remember, and to let such persons know that the Trustees for Georgia have signified to the Society that there can be no embarkation till August next, that being the best month for Strangers leaving Europe to arrive in that Climate, when the Rains which Usually fall there in our Autumn will be over and the most healthfull Season to Strangers ensue.

The Society were in hopes ’ere this to have sent you some Account of the safe arrival of the Saltzburgers gone to Georgia in the Purysburg, but hitherto they have only heard by a ship who met them at Sea near the Coast of Carolina that they were all well making in under a fair wind for the Land and that they desired the Master of the Ship who brings this intelligence to let their Friends in England know as much, So that we every day expect to hear of their happy arrival, by Ships that were expected to Sail soon after this Ship that met them.

In answer to your former Letters concerning the Salaries of the Minister and Catechist the Society knew of nothing of the Promises You had made to them of 60£ and 50£ when they advanced ½ a Year’s Salaries to them at Dover in their way to Georgia supposing that you had agreed with the Minister for 50 £ per Annum according to my Letter of the 18 of May 1733 in the following words viz.

“The Society also desire You would recommend a person Qualified to accompany these Protestants as their Minister to whom the Society are willing to allow a Salary of 50 £ per Annum till the Settlement may be in a Condition to support him.”

After which the Society upon your importunity to send over a Minister and Catechist with the first Transport, left it to your discretion the 3rd July last to do as you should think fit presuming you would find a person qualified for 50 £ per Annum as mentioned above, which is the utmost allowed to all the Mission that the Incorporated Society for Propagating the Gospel in Foreign parts have in the Province of South Carolina particularly the English Missionary on the Georgian Establishment, and to Catechists and Schoolmasters they allow only from 10 to 20 £ per Annum but the Society have agreed to allow the Catechist 30 £ per Annum and joined to him a Schoolmaster at 10 £ per Annum and the Society could allow no more without giving Offence to the Benefactors and the Missionary there Settled on the English Establishment, and therefore pray let those worthy persons know that the Society hope they will not think it want of respect to them that they do not exceed the Allowances they proposed.

I am   Reverend Sir   Your Most Obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

I thank you for your kind present of 4 Pictures one of which is put up in the Society’s Room. My humble Service to Mr. Vat. Postscript

Reverend Sir: Since writing the above there is advice come from South Carolina to Mr. Symond’s Merchant owner of the Purysburg that the Saltzburgers arrived off of Charles Town just as Mr. Oglethorpe was embarking there for England but upon their arrival he put off embarkation and having put Pilots on the Purysburg to carry her up the River Savannah he returned to Georgia to give directions for their better Settlement of which tis hoped the next Ships may bring more particular advices.

I am once more   Reverend and Dear Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 18 June 1734. A Monsieur Monsieur de Münch Banquier à Augsburg en Suabia. For the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger.

Reverend Sir: My last was of the 11th Current in answer to yours of the 5 and 22 of April last and 27 May, since which I received Your favour of the 17th of this month N.S., and this day the same was read to the Society expressing Your Surprize at hearing nothing of the arrival of the First Transport of Saltzburgers, but before the Society broke up they received the Pleasure of having the Account herewith Sent Communicated to them by Sir John Philipps from a Letter he had that moment received from Mr. Oglethorpe dated at St. Hellen’s Road near the Isle of Wight at which they were not a little rejoiced, and Ordered me to acquaint You with the contents of it by the first Post.

I had the honour of a Short Letter at the same time from Mr. Oglethorpe wherein he tells me he has several Letters from Mr. [Ph.] Van Reck and the Congregation of Saltzburgers whom he left well pleased and in good Health at Eben-ezer that he thought it not proper to send them by the Post since he was coming to London and would deliver ’em with his own hand. You may be sure I shall with pleasure forward them which are directed to Germany, and if they are large and numerous I shall make so free with the King’s private Secretary as to get them forwarded in the King’s Packet to Baron [J.] Von Reck at Ratisbone from whom you may expect to receive those directed to Augsburg.

My humble Service to Mr. Vat, I hope by the present appearance of things it may not be long before he may be employed according to his own desires. Governour Shute and Colonel Valogne at St. James’s very Lately Enquired after his health which I was glad to inform them of, and may you always enjoy your health for the publick Good is the wish of

Reverend and Dear Sir   Your most Obedient humble Servant   Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 25 June 1734.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

[Marginal Note:] Enclosing Mr. [Ph.] Von Recks and Bolzius’ Letters from Savannah in Georgia 22 March 1734. see their Letters Entered at Large in No. 2 Saltzb. Letters received folio 42, 43. Approved by Sir J. Philipps, Mr. Vernon & Dr. Vernon at Sir John Philipps’s after the Committee was up, and forwarded by Mr. Reiche the King’s Private Secretary under cover to Mr. [J.] Von Reck at Ratisbonne.

Reverend & Dear Sir:   My last of the 18 Current acquainted You with Mr. Oglethorpe’s arrival from Georgia and a Copy of his Letter to Sir John Philipps, since which I have received and laid before the Society the Letters from Mr. Von Reck and Mr. Bolzius of the 22nd of March last and by Order of the Society I send You Copies of them, but the principal Letters accompanying the Journal of Mr. Von Reck and Mr. Bolzius are not yet come to hand, which I have sent to Mr. Oglethorpe for, but he not being at home, I can only tell you that I suppose they are in some part of his Baggage not yet arrived but you may expect to hear further of them. In the mean time I received with these a packet for Baron Von Reck at Ratisbonne which I have forwarded by this Post with the same Apology as I have made above for not sending the Journal etc. I received also a large Packet in High Dutch for Mr. Ziegenhagen the Contents of which have not yet been communicated to the Society.

I cannot but congratulate you on the safe arrival of the Saltzburgers in Georgia and doubt not but the kind reception they have met with will dispose some of those who have refused the invitation formerly given them to wish themselves with them, and had they gone when they were invited and peoples Zeal for assisting them was warm there is reason to believe there would not have been wanting such assistance from the Charity’s of many good persons in this Kingdom as would have enabled the Society to have defrayed the Expence of their Voyage to Georgia.

The Society make no doubt but that the same Spirit of persecution Subsists in the Arch Bishop and his Clergy but as the Instances of Persons that have lately left their Country on that account are grown rare the Society have not been furnished with Materials to set out a 3rd Narrative of the Sufferings of the Saltzburgers in order to excite a new warmth of Charity for them which has been much abated by the refusal of the Tirnbergers to go and by not hearing of any number of Protestants disposed to come out. And the Collections made by the Society are already so much exhausted in transporting the small number already sent to Georgia together with the allowances made to the Minister Catechist and Schoolmaster that they dare not undertake for sending anymore.

This is not only the Case of our Society but the Trustees for Georgia on whose assistance the Society very much relied having been so much drained by the necessary Expence for supporting their Colony during the first Year of their Settlement that the Society are informed the like assistance as was given in the Transport of Saltzburgers already gone is not to be expected from them for the future. It is therefore recommended to you to be as frugal as you can in managing the remainder of the Saltzburg Cash you have in your hands and that good Mr. Vat may be duly considered for his pains and Expence in making a Journey to Augsburg, that you would advise the Society what Gratification may be proper to be made to him beyond what he has already received.

Pray give my humble Service to him and I beg you to be assured that I am   Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   H.N.

Bartlet’s Buildings London 25 June 1734. A Son Excellence Monsieur [J.] de Reck Conseiller de Sa Majeste Britanique et Son Envoy à la diete de l’Empire à Ratisbonne.

Honoured Sir: Yesterday I had the honour of receiving from your Nephew [Ph. von Reck] the Letters of which a Copy is on the other side but the Principal Letters accompanying the Journal of Mr. Von Reck and Messrs. Bolzius and Gronau are not yet come to hand which I have sent to Mr. Oglethorpe for, but he not being at home I can only tell you that I suppose they are in some part of his Baggage not yet come to hand but you may expect to hear further of them.

I have herewith forwarded the Letter I received for you according to his desire and hope the advices of it may be much to your Satisfaction till you can be advised of his safe return to Europe[.] in the mean time I remain with great respect Sir Your most Obedient humble Servant Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 2 July 1734. A Monsieur Monsieur de Münch Banquier a Augsburg en Suabia. To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger.

Reverend Sir: My Last was of the 25 of June, since which I have the favour of yours of the 1st Current N.S. and this day laid the same before the Society upon reading which they were led to consider the Contents of their last Letter; particularly the Paragraph containing these words viz. “that the Society are already so much exhausted in transporting the small number of Saltzburgers already sent to Georgia together with the allowances made to the Minister Catechist and Schoolmaster that they dare not undertake for sending anymore.” I am now ordered to desire you would understand the Society to mean that their assistance can’t be given to any more at present but if those few Saltzburgers who were disabled from attending the last Transport to Georgia remain still at Augsburg the Society don’t at all mean to exclude them the benefit of following their Friends thither if they are so inclined.

And as to Mr. Vat if there had been Emigrants enough to form a new Transport for Georgia and things in other respects had answered expectations as the Society are very sensible of his Capacity and integrity they would have been very glad he might have been the Conductor of them to Rotterdam, but now with regret they find themselves under a necessity of discharging him from any such Views and to gratify him as you shall advise according to what I mentioned in my Last for his trouble and expence in coming to Augsburg attending there to be employed in the Service mentioned and his return to Swisserland.

Dear Sir: You will perceive that to save time I have been obliged to make use of my Clerk’s hand to signify the pleasure of the Society by this Post. My Letter of the 25th of last month was sent under Cover to Mr. [J.] Von Reck at Ratisbonne to have the benefit of going in the King’s Packet and with it went one to you from Mr. Bolzius in Georgia.

Mr. [Ph.] Von Recks Journal is not yet come to hand with some other Letters daily expected.

My humble Service to Mr. Vat and believe that I am

Reverend Sir   Your most obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 26 July 1734. A Son Excellence Monsieur [J.] de Reck Conseiller de Sa Majeste Britanique et Son Envoy a la Diete de l’Empire a Ratisbonne.

Sir: I had the honour of your Letter of the 22nd Current N.S. by last Post and tho’ I have not the honour to be Secretary to the Trustees for Georgia I immediately acquainted them with the Contents of it so far as concerns your Worthy nephew and shall deliver Your Letter to him upon his arrival in England which I hope maybe ’ere long.

I have been very much concerned for the delay of sending the Original of your Nephew’s Journal, but it was detained sometime in Mr. Oglethorpe’s Baggage on bord the man of War so that he himself could not come at it; then I was ordered by the Society (my Masters) for Promoting Christian Knowledge to make an exact Copy of it which was finished but yesterday, in doing which the Copies had the Misfortune to have some Ink spilled upon it by the Copier, for which he and I ask your Pardon but to rectify the same as much as in his power the Copier has transcribed so much of it as was blemished by the Ink which I wish may be sufficient atonement.

I shall be glad to do any Service I am able to your Nephew when it shall please God he arrives in England to convince him and his good Uncle how much I am both his and

Sir   Your Excellency’s most obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg will be very glad to be acquainted with the contents of your Nephew’s Journal.

Bartlet’s Buildings 30 July 1734.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

Reverend Sir: I received Your Letters of the 19th & 22nd July Current N.S. and upon reading them this day before the Society they are come to the following resolution of sending a Transport of between 40 & 50 Saltzburgers to be conducted by Mr. Vat with all convenient Speed to Rotterdam and from thence to come over with them to Gravesend in the River of Thames in the passage Sloop where there will be a Ship ready to receive them to Georgia.

This Transport the Society would have consist First of those Five persons left in Germany which you mention in your last. Secondly those whose Friends and Relations are already gone and who are desirous to follow them and if there should not be enough of both these then the Transport is to be filled up with such other Saltzburgers who are willing and ready to accept of this Offer. The Society desire that this Transport be made ready as soon as possible and they hope they will be in England by the latter end of September at farthest.

Mr. Vat is desired to be very frugal in their Expences upon the Road etc. lest the Sum of money in their Hands should not hold out, for we formerly told you that the Trustees of Georgia have been so much drained by the necessary Expence for supporting their numerous Colony during the first year of their Settlement That the same assistance is not to be expected from them in this as in the former Transport. Mr. Vat will have in a very short time full Instructions how to deport himself upon his Journey and Voyage hither, and when he comes here it will be Considered what acknowledgment to make him for his care and pains in this affair.

You will be so kind as to acquaint the Society with the Steps You take in this affair from Time to Time and wishing You Success in your pious endeavours for these poor persecuted Protestants

I remain   Reverend and Dear Sir   Your most humble Servant
Henry Newman

My humble Service to Mr. Vat. Reverend Sir, Last Post the 25 July I sent to the Baron [J.] von Reck at Ratisbonne his Nephew’s Journal on the voyage to and at Georgia till Mr. Oglethorpe came away and have desired him to acquaint you with the contents of it. this day the 30th July I saw a Letter from Mr. [Ph.] Von Reck dated at Ebenezer in Georgia the 5th of May to Mr. Oglethorpe by which he and all the Saltzburg Colonists were well going on chearfully diligently & successfully in their new Settlement where I hope God will abundantly bless them.

Your single Letter to me of the 19th cost 3 s postage because it came under cover to Mr. [John Baptista] Mayer.

Whereas your last of the 22nd cost but 1 s because it came directly to me tho’ both were marked fr. à Cologne.³¹

Bartlet’s Buildings London 15 August 1734. A Son Excellence Monsieur [J.] Von Reck Conseiller de Sa Majeste Britanique et Son Envoy à la diete de l’Empire à Ratisbonne.

Sir: I had the honour of your Letter of the 22nd of July last N.S. and am glad by this to have the pleasure of congratulating your Excellency on the safe return of your Nephew [Ph. von Reck] from the Province of Georgia to whom I delivered the Letter you was pleased to recommend to my care. During his short stay in London, he was very agreeably entertained his Friends with an Account of his Travels particularly the Gentlemen of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge who have a true Sense of the favour done them when you recommended your Nephew to the good work of conducting the Saltzburg Emigrants to Georgia, the Society having found by experience how well he was qualified for such an undertaking, which has been executed by him with great discretion and Zeal for God’s Glory as will fully appear to any one who shall attentively read his Journals to and from Georgia Shining with a Spirit of true Piety. The Society are exceedingly pleased that out of his unwearied Zeal for doing Good he is willing to conduct a Second Transport of Saltzburg Emigrants to Georgia.

In his return to England he brought several Letters from America, among which I had the honour of one from His Excellency Governour Belcher of New England referring me to his Son a Barrister at Law in the Middle Temple who had another Letter both which make Honourable mention of your Nephew[.] I have herewith sent Copies of them that you may have the pleasure of knowing in how amiable a light he appeared abroad.

Mr. Oglethorpe who had been an Eye Witness of his Prudence and Zeal in Georgia took Care to get him presented to His Majesty, and if his impatience to pay his Duty to your Excellency and his other Friends in Germany had not prevailed above all other inclinations he would have had any other respect shewed to him that his Friends here could have expressed[;] but when I mentioned your Advice he told me he was only going to Germany in order to return to England to obey your commands more effectually. Your nephew Embarked Yesterday in the Roterdam Sloop for Holland.

I hope God Almighty will bless him wherever he goes and remain Sir Your Excellency’s most obedient humble Servant Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings 20 August 1734.   To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg.

Reverend and Dear Sir: My last was of the 30th July since which I have none from you, but according to the advice of your last the Society have procured 2 Royal Passes from His Majesty Viz. one for Mr. John Vat to act as Commissary and the other for Mr. [Ph.] De Reck to act in the same capacity for conducting any number of Saltzburg Protestants who may be disposed to come to Rotterdam in order to proceed to Georgia.

These Papers will be sent under cover to the Baron [J.] Von Reck to be used as there may be occasion which the Society have this day ordered me to acquaint you with, at the same time I assure you of being

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

My humble Service to Mr. Vat. Mr. [Ph.] De Reck happily arrived here from Georgia the beginning of this month and is gone hence last Wednesday to wait on you and his other Friends in Germany.

London 20 August 1734. A Son Excellence Monsieur [J.] Von Reck Conseiller de Sa Majeste Britanique et Son Envoy à la Diete d l’Empire à Ratisbonne.

Sir: My last was of the 15 Current O.S. since which I have the honour of one from your Excellency of the 19 Current N.S. enclosing a Second Letter to your nephew [Ph. von Reck] which I have herewith returned as the most ready way to reach his Hands at Ratisbonne whither he set out hence last Wednesday via Rotterdam.

Since he went hence His Majesty has granted Two passes Viz. One for Mr. [Ph.] De Reck and the other for Mr. John Vat to act as Commissaries in conducting any number of Saltzburgers that may be disposed to come from Germany to Roterdam in order to proceed to Georgia[.] this I am directed by the Society humbly to acquaint you with, and that the Ships of Georgia will be ready to proceed thither the beginning of October next.

Sir: In answer to your Enquiry the Secretary to the Trustees for establishing the Colony of Georgia by a Charter from His Majesty is Benjamin Martyn Esq. but I serve as Secretary to a Voluntary Society known by the name of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge who concern themselves on this occasion only as Sollicitors of Charity on behalf of their Persecuted Brethren the Protestants of Saltzburg and to do what they can to secure the Religious Interests of Those Confessors, on which account you will perceive that it is not in their Province to address the Court here for any Civil or Military Employment in favour of your Nephew tho’ they were never so much inclined to it, beside his not being a native of England or naturalized disqualifies him for it, but I am well assured that the Trustees for Georgia who act in another capacity not Subject to these limitations have made an offer to your Nephew of any Encouragement they can give him, that he please to accept of in their new Colony of Georgia, concerning which Mr. De Reck will be able more fully to explain, to whom I beg Leave to refer and remain with all possible respect

Sir   Your Excellency’s most obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

The Passes abovementioned will be sent to your Excellency to be used as there may be occasion.

Georgius R.

Georgius Secundus, Dei

Gratia Magnae Britanniae, Franciae et Hiberniae Rex, Fidei Defensor Dux Brunsvicensis et Luneburgensis Sacri Romani Imperii Archi-Thesaurarius et Princeps Elector etc. Omnibus et Singulis ad quos presentes hae Literae pervenerint, Salutem. Cum nobis Significatum sit, Dominum Philippum Georgium Fridericum de Reck quinquaginta aut plures Archi-Episcopatûs Salisburgensis olim Incolas, Viros, Faeminas, Infantesque, ab augustâ Vindelicorum in Angliam brevi deducturum, Cumque a Nobis humillimè petitum fuerit ut dicto Philippo Georgio Friderico de Reck cum comitatu Supramemorato, Literas Nostras Salvi Conductus concedere velimus, idcirco nos omnes et Singulos Reges ac Principes cujus cunque Dignitatis aut Ordinis, Status Ordinesque Amicos Nostros et Foederatos, Classium Exercituum que Ductores, Urbium et Arcium Praefectos reliquosque in universum Officiales et Ministros Eorum quoscunque (id quod Subditis Nostris quorum ullo modo intererit, firmiter injungimus) rogandos duximus ut praefato Philippo Georgio Friderico de Reck cum Comitatu Supradicto, et Sarcinis Eorum quibusunque non Solum liberam et Securam eundi transeundi; commorandique potestatem faciant, verum et omnibus Humanitatis Officiis eosdem excipiant adjuventque et eisdem, si opus fuerit, novas in super Salvi Conductus Literas concedant id quod nos, pari vel alio Officiorum genere Servata cujuscunque Status et Dignitatis ratione grate agnoscemus, Dabantur in Palatio Nostro apud Kensington 16° die mensis Augusti Anno Domini 1734. Regnique Nostri Octavo

Ad Mandatum Serenissimi   Domini Regis
Harrington

Pass for Mr. De Reck and a number of Saltzburgers to come to England.

Memorandum: A Pass was made for Mr. John De Vat in the words abovementioned Mutatis Mutandis Dated the 12 of August 1734.

Minute of the Common Council November 14, 1733.

Resolved: “That Mr. Vernon and Dr. Bundy be desired to propose to the Society for Propagating Christian Knowledge That on paying over Three Thousand pounds to the Trustees they will engage under their Seal to pay Three Several [separate] Salaries of Fifty, Thirty and Ten pounds per Annum to the Minister Catechist and Schoolmaster of the Saltzburgers in Georgia.

Extract of a Letter sent to Mr. Oglethorpe dated November the 24, 1733.

“Among the First Rank is Mr. Philip George Frederick de Reck their Conductor the Reverend Mr. Boltzius³² their Minister Mr. Gronau their Catechist, and Mr. Ortmann their Sent as a Schoolmaster to the Children, the Society in Bartlett’s Buildings have engaged to pay to the Minister a Salary of 50 £ a year the Catechist 30 £ a year and the Schoolmaster 10 £ a year; And as the Schoolmaster’s Salary is but small the Trustees think it right to allow him Twenty acres of Land for a House, Garden and pasturage.”

This is all that appears in the Books of the Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia relating to Mr. Christopher Ortmann.

Benj. Martyn Secretary

London 29th August 1734. A Son Excellence Monsieur [J.] De Reck Conseiller de Sa Majeste Britanique et Son Envoy a la Diete de l’Empire à Ratisbonne.

Sir: I acquainted your Excellency the 20th Current that His Majesty had granted 2 Royal Passes for impowering Messrs. De Reck and Vat to conduct a Number of Saltzburg Emigrants from Augsburg to England. They are now by order of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge herewith sent to your Excellency to be conveyed to the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg as occasion may require.

I hope your Nephew [Ph. von Reck] is safely arrived ’ere this at Ratisbonne of which the Society will be glad to be informed. Mr. Vat’s Pass was bespoke at My Lord Harrington’s Office before it was known that Mr. de Reck was arrived in England, which is the reason of its being antedated. I have by this Post sent a Letter for your Nephew under your Excellency’s cover, which came to my hands this week, but whether from America, or Germany I know not. May I presume to send my humble service to Mr. De Reck at the same time I assure you of being

Sir   Your Excellency’s Most Obedient humble Servant   H. N. Secretary

Bartlet’s Buildings London 1 August 1734.   To Messrs. Bolzius & Gronau Missionaries at Ebenezer in Georgia.

Reverend Sirs: I received your favour of the 22nd of March last and acquainted the Society with the Contents which³³ were very acceptable to them. Mr. Ziegenhagen has since communicated an Extract of your Journal to 22 March by which the Society are very much Concerned to hear of the Barbarity of the Capt. of the Purysburg to the Saltzburgers on their Voyage after all the Caution used at Dover to prevent it. The Trustees for Georgia I hear have resolved never to employ him again for the Sake of his ill usage of the Saltzburgers and if Mr. [Ph.] De Reck at his return with some other person can be found to bear Testimony such as the Law requires³⁴ to convict him of his Scandalous usage of those honest Confessors who had suffered so much already in their own Country he will I believe be prosecuted here with Severity to be made an Example of to deter others from the like Cruelty[.] at least nothing will be wanting in the Friends of the Saltzburgers here to prosecute him, if he can be Legally convicted. I am Surprized at your improvement in the English Language, in so short a time under so many disadvantages; may your happy Talent still continue to make You more usefull to the English as well as to the Saltzburgers. In your Journal you mention some civilities shewn to you by the Jews lately gone to Georgia and some of them now and then looking into your Assemblies,³⁵ pray signify in your next any occurrences of that kind, some Jews in Germany having lately discovered an inclination to read the N. Testament on which Several have embraced Christianity and given hopes that the Time is not far off when it may please God to bring those antient People of God into the Christian World.

My most humble Service to your worthy Colleague Mr. Gronau.

If Mr. De Reck be come for England pray let the enclosed for him be returned directed under Cover to

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

Mr. Quincy will inform you of the reception of the Indians brought over by Mr. Oglethorpe.

Mr. Ziegenhagen being in the Country for his Health I doubt will not write to you by these Ships. Mr. Butjenter is well & would have been glad of a Line from you, Reverend Sir.

London 3 August 1734.

Reverend Sir: This moment Mr. [Ph.] Von Reck is happily arrived by the way of Boston which has obliged me to break open this packet to take out his Letter. I am glad to tell you he is in good health and if it be possible he will write to you by this Ship. I am

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

[Newman’s letter of 20 Aug. 1734 to J. von Reck, which was previously entered, was inadvertently repeated here in the same hand.]

Bartlet’s Buildings London 20th August 1734. A Monsieur Monsieur de Münch Banquier à Augsburg en Suabia To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger.

Reverend Sir: My last was of the 30th of July since which I have none from you, but according to the advice of your last the Society have procured two Royal Passes from His Majesty, viz. one for Mr. John Vat to act as Commissary, and the other for Mr. [Ph.] De Reck to act in the same capacity for conducting any number of Saltzburger Protestants who may be disposed to come to Rotterdam in order to proceed to Georgia.

These passes will be sent under cover to the Baron [J.] Von Reck to be used as there may be occasion which the Society have this day ordered me to acquaint you with at the same time I assure you of being

Reverend Sir   Your most humble Servant   Henry Newman

P.S.: My humble Service to Mr. Vat.

Mons. [Ph.] De Reck happily arrived here from Georgia the beginning of this month and is gone hence last Wednesday to wait on you and his other Friends in Germany.

[Newman’s letter of 29 Aug. 1734 to J. von Reck, which had been entered in his own hand above, was inadvertently repeated here by his clerk.]

Bartlet’s Buildings 5th September 1734.   To Mr. Philip George Frederick de Reck at Ratisbonne.

Dear Sir: I hope this will find you Safely arrived at Ratisbonne, whither I have sent a large packet under cover to your good Uncle [J. von Reck] directed to you the 29th of last month, together with a Royal Pass from His Majesty impowering you to conduct a number of Saltzburgers from Augsburg to England. This accompanys a Mapp of Georgia which Mr. Oglethorpe desires me to convey to you in the best manner. Your Friends here will be glad to hear of your Welfare and what prospect you have of returning to England at the head of a good Transport. My Humble Service to His Excellency the Baron and please to believe that I am

Dear Sir   Your most obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 20 September 1734 A Monsieur Monsieur De Münch Banquier à Augsburg en Suabia. To the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger.

Reverend Sir: I have laid your Letter of the 16th Current N.S. before the Society who immediately applied to the Trustees of Georgia and said that a Ship [Prince of Wales] is already prepared to convey over the Indian Chief [Tomochichi] and his attendants under the direction of Capt. Dunbar a Gentleman remarkable for his humanity who has great concerns himself in Georgia and will therefore be further induced by his own Interest to show particular regard to those who shall be sent thither. The Society hopes according to your Advise that the Transport will have set out before this comes to hand[,] if not I am to desire you will consider whether it will be possible for them to reach Rotterdam by the 15th of October O.S. that being the utmost time they can have the benefit of this Ship. If they are already set out you will be so good as to Send a Messenger if necessary to hasten them, for tho they may be received so late as the 15th the Ship will be ready for them by the 8 and it will be some inconvenience to wait longer. I have wrote by the Society’s order to the Reverend Mr. Lowther and Mr. Wolters at Rotterdam who took care of the former Transport to receive these and provide for their conveyance to Gravesend.

The Society hope your next will inform them of the number and quality of the Saltzburgers to be Transported and will be glad to hear of Mr. [Ph.] De Reck’s safe arrival at Augsburg to whom I wrote the 5th Current but directed my Letter with a Map of Georgia to him at Ratisbonne for the convenience of going in the King’s packet but I sent the Royal passes for him and Mr. Vat to conduct the Saltzburgers in packet directed to the Baron [J.] de Reck 29 August O.S.

My humble Service to both these Gentlemen if they are Still with you and please to believe that I am.

Reverend Sir   Your most obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings London 20 September 1734.   To Mr. D. Wolters Agent for His Britannick Majesty at Rotterdam.

Sirs: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge having received advice from the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger at Augsburg that a Transport of Saltzburgers consisting of above 20 persons mostly young single people would be ready to Set out thence by the 15th Current O.S. for Rotterdam in order to embark for Georgia and having thereupon desired a Conference with the Trustees for Georgia concerning the best means of conveying them, I am ordered by the Society to desire you would in concert with the Reverend Mr. Lowther if he be at Rotterdam assist the person who shall conduct them whether Mr. Vat or Mr. De Reck to bespeak accommodations for them till they can embark and for engaging one or more Rotterdam Sloops to give them passage to Gravesend where a Ship [Prince of Wales] commanded by Capt. Dunbar bound to Georgia will be provided by Mr. Simonds to receive them. Capt. Pigeon and Capt. Cranwell are named to the Society for honest Masters of Sloops but if you know of any other that you can recommend which may be sooner ready, the Society desire you would make the best agreement you can for the comfortable passage of these people to Gravesend and your or Mr. Lowthers or the Conductors Bills on William Tillard Esq. in London for payment of their passage will be punctually complied with I am

Sir   Your most obedient humble Servant   Henry Newman

The Society are informed that the usual price for passage money to Gravesend is 5 s per head, including their Diet.

I shall be obliged to you for a Line as soon as you have any intelligence of the arrival of these People in your Parts.

To the Reverend Mr. Richard Lowther Minister of the English Church at Rotterdam.

Reverend Sir: The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge etc. etc. as above to Mr. Wolters Mutatis Mutandis.

Bartlet’s Buildings 24 September 1734.   To the Reverend Mr. Lowther at Rotterdam.

Reverend Sir: My last was of the 20 Current Since which the Society have advice of the 23 Current N.S. from Augsburg that 54 Saltzburgers Set out that day for Rotterdam under the Conduct of Mr. Vat and tis very likely Mr. Von Reck may follow them.

By this Post Mr. Simonds has sent Credit for what there may be occasion to assist Mr. Vat in bringing them to Gravesend on Messrs. Curtonne and his Son and de Normandie at Rotterdam who will be ready to give what assistance they can to Supply their wants etc. while in Holland and in their way to England, wherein the Society request and doubt not of your good offices together with those of Mr. Wolters to favour their Transport. I have covered a Letter for Mr. Vat to Mr. Wolters Supposing he will of course apply to him on his arrival. I am

Reverend Sir   Your most obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

wrote to the Effect above to Mr. Wolters at Rotterdam Mutatis mutandis.

[Marginal Note:] If Mr. Von Reck comes with or follows this Transport the Society desire you will Shew him all the respect due to his great Merit for his past Services.

Bartlet’s Buildings London 24 September 1734.   To Mr. John Vat under Cover to Mr. Wolters at Rotterdam.

Dear Sir: The Society were this day very agreeably Surprized to hear you was set out from Augsburg the 23 Current with 54 Saltzburg Emigrants to Rotterdam in order to proceed to Georgia and immediately gave me orders to bespeak of Mr. Simonds what Credit you may have occasion for to Supply them with necessaries in Rotterdam and in their way to Gravesend in one or more Sloops where Capt. Dunbar of Georgia in a Ship belonging to Mr. Simonds will have instructions to receive them. By this Post Mr. Simonds has promised to write to Messrs. Courtonne and Son and de Normandie at Rotterdam to Supply you accordingly and to take your Bills on William Tillard Esq. in London for what you shall draw on him for this Service but the Passage money is not to be drawn for till they arrive in England where Mr. Simonds tells me the Capt. of the Sloops will be content to take your Bills. The Reverend Mr. Lowther Minister of the English Church at Rotterdam and Mr. Wolters His Majesty’s Agent there are both wrote to by this Post to give you all the advice and assistance they can which from the experience the Society have had of their goodness when the former Transport arrived they have no reason to doubt of.

I hope it may not be long ’eer I may congratulate you in person on your Safe return to England and if Mr. Von Reck has overtaken you in your Journey from Augsburg, the Society doubt not of your having treated him with all possible respect in regard to his great merit and the obligations they are under to him for his past Service and that they will be glad to see him again in England.

I don’t write to him because it is uncertain whether he attends this Transport but if he be with you pray shew him this Letter and assure him of my most humble Service. I received his Letter from Rotterdam Sometime since and another from Ratisbonne of the 20th Current N.S. but till I know where to direct to him I forbear writing. I have a Letter by me of old Date from Germany which I believe is from his uncle at Ratisbonne and keep it till I have the honour of Seeing him. Pray let me hear of your motion and of the welfare of the Emigrants under your care and the names and Qualities of those 7 not included in the List of 47 you sent from Augsburg to compleat the number of 54.

I pray God to prosper your voyage and send you safe to your Friends here remaining

Dear Sir   Your most obedient humble Servant
Henry Newman

Bartlet’s Buildings 25 September 1734: To Mr. Verelst at the Georgian Office in old Palace yard Westminster.

Sir: The Copies of the Letters from Mr. Urlsperger herewith sent of the 20th & 23 Current N.S. with the List of the Saltzburgers Set out last Thursday was Sennight from Augsburg were yesterday laid before the Society here who have ordered me to desire you would communicate them to the Trustees for Georgia at their meeting this Evening and that you would procure an Estimate of the whole Charge of Transporting the 47 Emigrants from Gravesend to Georgia mentioned in the List to which may be added the other 7 to compleat the number of 54 as soon as they are known, I have wrote for them by last Post. The Committee of the Society here have adjourned themselves to Friday morning next in hopes of receiving then by you the favour of the advice of the Trustees on these Letters with the Estimate. I am Sir Your most humble Servant

Henry Newman

London 1 October 1734. A Monsieur Monsieur Von Reck à Augsburg.

Sir: I have this moment received your Letter from Augsburg of the 16 of September and have communicated the same to the Gentlemen of the Society who approve of the reasons alledged in your Letter and that of the Reverend Mr. Urlsperger for your not accompanying the Transport now Sett out for Georgia. We make no doubt but your residence this winter in Germany will be of singular Service to the Colony of Georgia and we are endeavouring to put our Selves into a Condition to receive another Transport of Saltzburg Emigrants in case any such offer, which at present we are not able to do but we are in great hopes by the Blessing of God to be ready by next Spring to receive a new Transport and that it will Suit your convenience to put your Self at the head of them. The Experience of what is past encouraging us to hope for Success where you are concerned.