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On the 25th of April Saxe-Gotha is again mentioned in the
diary of the pastors and at somewhat great length: "The
German Evangelical Lutheran people at Congrees in South
Carolina . some months ago requested me to visit them

and serve them with the Word and the Holy Communion. I
sent them some books both for adults and for children, and at
the same time wrote them that my circumstances did not permit
such a long journey. Now again I receive a letter in which the
former request is repeated, with the added statement that I am
to, help them to get a church and a preacher. They constitute
a congregation of 280 souls and all of them could go to church
if one were built in the midst of their surrounding plantations.
The Reformed had obtained from the government 500 pounds
Carolina money (somewhat more than 500 gulden) for the
erection of a church, but there was no one willing to assist
them [the Lutherans] if I did not do so. They live in great
discord with the Reformed, at which I expressed my displeasure
in my former letter. A few families from here, who, indeed,
could have supported themselves among us, removed to that
place; three grown boys who were afterwards enticed from
their service here, and two indentured servants who had run
away have found refuge in Congrees. The people there (as a
preacher from Carolina [Zuebli] once wrote me are said to
live filthlily among themselves and have very little respect for
their Reformed preacher. 1 have no love for these people.
