The one to keep honest people as well strangers in, as inhabitants of, America from being chicaned with and plagued without the least reason & as it were only de gayete de Cceur.

The second that in the aforesaid Colonies no body but least of all the Indians shall be hindred from joyning with any Protestant Church whatsoever w^h iu his ideas is the most solid, according to the measures taken for incourageing Foreigners to settle in the British Colonies of America

Your Lordships have so much wisdom that I think it not proper previously to trouble you with arguments : But if for other people's sake (whose understanding & inclination is not in so good a Disposition as your Lordships') you sh*^ desire that those points about w^h I have petitioned sh^ be confirmed by some Proofs, I wait your Lordships' order & am, My Lords

Maienborr Your Lordships' most humble

31 Dec. 44. & obedient Servant

ZiNZENDORFF, >

BOAKD OF TRiVDE TO GOY^ CLINTON June 28tb, 1745.

[Lond. Doc. XXVIL]

Since our letter to you dated the 5*^^ of April last (a Duplicate is herewith inclosed) we have received a letter from Mons^ de Gersdoif in behalf of himself and the Moravian Brethren in the

I Nicholas Lottis Zinzendorf, foundei of the sect of Moravians, was born in Dresden in May, 1700. He studied at Halle and Utrecht, and m 1721, purchased the Lordship of Bertholdsdorf, in Lusatia, where some followers of JohnHuss settled in the course of the following- year. From this period, Count Z. devoted himself to preaching. Having; travelled over tlie greater part of the world, he came, in 1711, to America, .ind in 1742 ordained missionaries. At Shecomico, he established the first Indian Moravian Congregation in N. America. In njS, he returned to Europe, and died on his estate in 1760.