Excerpt from Records of the Moravians in North Carolina, Vol. 6: 1793-1808 During the last years of the eighteenth century and the first years of the nineteenth century the Moravians in Wachovia continued their ambitious building program. The boys' Anstalt, the new house for the congregation Vorsteher, and the Salem church were erected under the supervision of Rev. Frederic William Marshall, who taught young Frederic Christian Meinung the art of drawing house plans so that he would be able to carry on that part of the work. Marshall died in 1802, and the building of the house for the Boarding School for girls was supervised by Rev. Samuel Stotz; the erection of the Bethania church was handled locally, with some assistance from Bishop Carl Gotthold Reichel. The decade and a half covered by this volume was a time of nominal peace in America, but with a tense undercurrent Of unrest. The Napoleonic wars were raging in Europe; there was friction with the Barbary States, with England, etc., and no one knew when the United States would be drawn into armed conflict. Commerce was interrupted by war conditions and by several epidemics which swept the country, north and south. The industries of Salem fared fairly well, but the lack of currency was a serious handicap, which at one time was met by having the store issue little promissory notes, which could be used in making change. The opening of the Boarding School-for girls brought to Salem the leading men of North Carolina, and a number from adjacent states, who came to place their daughters in the Moravian school, or to visit them during their sojourn there, and incidentally learned to know Salem and the ideals and aims of the Moravian school and town. Others came to avail themselves of the services of Dr. Vierling, whose fame was rather widely spread. A reflex from the general unrest appeared in the attitude of some of the Moravian members, especially those who wished to marry outside the bounds of the Moravian church, and this led to the loss Of certain men and women who were not willing to submit to the rules which they had promised to follow when they were admitted into church fellowship. On the other hand, after a rather dry and discouraging period, certain Of their young men showed great promise of future usefulness within the church circle. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.