Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . t onlv fifty reached their destination. / t« «/ It was Queen Anne, who established the Saxe Gotha District,intending it as a place of refuge for Germans and others perse-cuted because of their religion. This district, one hundred milesfrom Charleston, was settled later than Orangeburg, in 1737. Keverend Christian Theus, the first minister of the GermanKeformed Church, told the Governor of South Carolina that thesecolonists must have both churches and
Makers of America; biographies of leading men of thought and action, the men who constitute the bone and sinew of American prosperity and life . t onlv fifty reached their destination. / t« «/ It was Queen Anne, who established the Saxe Gotha District,intending it as a place of refuge for Germans and others perse-cuted because of their religion. This district, one hundred milesfrom Charleston, was settled later than Orangeburg, in 1737. Keverend Christian Theus, the first minister of the GermanKeformed Church, told the Governor of South Carolina that thesecolonists must have both churches and schools or they wouldremove to Pennsylvania where they would find more satisfactoryconditions. The government gave five hundred pounds sterlingin response to his request. A celebrated minister, Giessendanner labored among thecolony for some ten years. In 1749 he visited London, and re-ceived Anglican orders, returned and with his whole flock becamemembers of the English church. On the Sunday following, twenty-one more joined them. This may account for the Lutherans notbeing now so numerically strong as it might be presumed theywould
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