Journals of the Moravian Mission to Georgia, 1734–1737

Achim Kopp is professor of foreign languages and literatures and associate dean in the College of Liberal Arts and Sciences at Mercer University.John Thomas Scott is professor of history and chair of the History Department at Mercer University.

• IntroductionGeorgia Moravian TimelineList of SettlersProfiles of the Moravian Journal AuthorsProfiles of the Moravian SettlersMapsChapter 1—Journal of August Gottlieb Spangenberg, December 28, 1734 - January 26, 1735 and January 12 - March 16, 1736 (with reminiscences back to the summer of 1735)Chapter 2—Journal of David Nitschmann (Bishop), August 8, 1735 - February 17, 1736Chapter 3—Journal of Johann Töltschig, April 1, 1736 - October 16, 1737Chapter 4—Journal of Andreas Dober, August 5, 1735 - February 22, 1736 and December 2, 1736 - March 6, 1737Appendix A: “‘We Have Come to Georgia With Pure Intentions’: Moravian Bishop August Gottlieb Spangenberg’s Letters From Savannah, 1735.” Translated and edited by George Fenwick Jones and Paul Martin Peucker. Georgia Historical Quarterly 82, no. 1 (1998): 84-120.Appendix B: Catalogue of Alternate Spellings of Names and Terms Contained in the Moravian Journals

The book is an invaluable resource for German-American studies, including as it does insights about the Swiss German settlement at Purrysburg, South Carolina and useful background material on individuals such as David Zeisberger. Maps, appendices, a chronology — and, a great gift absent in so many modern publications, an index — make this a powerful scholarly container for the full history of a missionary moment that can be understood either as a failure or as a completed, exploratory effort.