...ements of prosperity were now with the colonists, who numbered more than 500 souls; but the unwise restrictions of the trustees were a serious bar to advancement. Many Germans, also, now settled in Georgia , among them a band of Moravians; and the Wesleys were followed by George Whitefield (q. v.), a zealous young clergyman burning with zeal for the good of men, and who worked lovingly with the Mora...