other means for the accomplishment of these ends, but certain it is
that in the actual development of all these things the "unsuccessful attempt"
in Georgia, 1735 to 1740, played a most important part.

In preparing this history a number of private libraries, the collections of
the Georgia Historical Society, the Congressional Library, the British Museum,
were searched for data, but so little was found that the story,
in so far as it relates to the Moravian settlement,
has been drawn entirely from the original manuscripts in the Archives
of the Unitas Fratrum at Herrnhut, Germany, with some additions from
the Archives at Bethlehem, Pa., and Salem, N. C. For the general history
of Georgia, of the Moravian Church, and of the Wesleys,
Steven's History of Georgia, Hamilton's History of the Moravian Church,
Levering's History of Bethlehem, Pa., Some Fathers of the American
Moravian Church, by de Schweinitz, Strobel's History of the Salzburgers,
Tyreman's Oxford Methodists, and Wesley's Journal have been most largely used.

The history of the Moravian settlement in Georgia falls into that period
when dates are much confused through the contemporaneous use of the old style,
or Julian calendar, and the new style, or Gregorian calendar.
As the latter is now current everywhere, except in Russia and the Orient,
it is here employed throughout, old style dates being translated
where they occur in the records.

Special thanks are due to Rev. A. Glitsch, Archivist at Herrnhut,
for courtesies extended while the author was examining
the invaluable collection of papers entrusted to his care,
and also for his supervision of the copying of such documents
as were selected; to Mr. Isaac Beckett, of Savannah, for information
respecting the Moravian lands; to Mr. John Jordan, of Philadelphia,