 Like the Quakers, the Brethren refused to take part in the war with the Spanish and, as a result, they were evicted from Georgia in 1739.George Whitefield, a widely known itinerant preacher who had served for a time as chaplain of Savannah, brought the group of evicted Georgia Brethren north to Philadelphia in his sloop.Whitefield had grandiose plans, and one of them was for a school for Negro children to be established on his tract of called the Barony of Nazareth.