Dr.Jacobs's suggestion that three congregations of five hundred families each might among them have raised the few hundreds a year required seems reasonable, unless a large number of these were families of redemptioners, that is, for the time, slaves.
[190:1] Jacobs, "The Lutherans," p.196.The story of Zinzendorf, as seen from different points of view, may be studied in the volumes of Drs.

Jacobs, Dubbs, and Hamilton (American Church History Series).
[191:1] Acrelius, quoted by Jacobs, p.

218, note.
[194:1] Jacobs, "The Lutherans," pp.

215-218; Hamilton, "The Moravians," chaps, iii.-viii., xi.
[196:1] Jacobs, "The Lutherans," p.

289.
[198:1] Jacobs, pp.