In October, 1737, the Salzburger pastors heard that every-
thing was very dear in New Windsor "because foodstuffs and
other necessaries of life must be brought up from Charlestown
and Savannah by boat, which is a very hard trip." One month
later a Switzer, who, along with some others, was traveling
from New Windsor to Purrysburg, called on one of the pastors
at Ebenezer. "He was sick and wretched, and all the others
are in the same condition. Horribly many (such was his ex-
pression) have . . . died in the new town. They are people
without the necessaries of life, sheep without a shepherd, and
therefore are at present in wretched circumstances."

Some of these Switzers moved from New Windsor to Palla-
choccolas where ' General Oglethorpe had a barony which he
wished to settle with some families from among their number.
Oglethorpe tried to induce the younger Zouberbuehler, then a
student of theology who was preaching to the Reformed ele-
ment in Purrysburg, to take an interest in these Switzers on his
barony. The latter had asked that Zauberbuehler be secured as
their "reader and preacher." It would seem that this arrange-
ment was made. In 1741 there was a schoolmaster "in the
wilderness near Savannah Town" who inquired of the Salz-
burger pastors whether they needed a teacher. He "longed"
to come to Ebenezer and to bring his wife and children with
him.
It seeems that some whetit was grown in the New Windsor
community, for in November, 1741, "the first boat which came
from Savannah Town "brought some wheat to be used by the
Salzburgers for seed.
