Editing Charles Wesley (section)

===Voyage to America===
On 14 October 1735, Wesley and his brother John sailed on ''The Simmonds'' from [[Gravesend, Kent]], for [[Savannah, Georgia|Savannah]] in the [[Province of Georgia|Georgia colony]] of [[British America]] at the request of the governor, [[James Oglethorpe]]. Wesley was appointed Secretary of Indian Affairs and while John remained in Savannah, Wesley went as chaplain to the garrison and colony at nearby [[St. Simons, Georgia#Fort Frederica|Fort Frederica]], [[St. Simons, Georgia|St. Simon's Island]], arriving there on 9 March 1736 according to his journal entry.<ref name="nnu.edu">
{{cite book |language=en |last1=Wesley |first1=Charles |last2=Jackson |first2=Thomas |location=Kansas City, Mo |publisher=Beacon Hill’s |date=1980 |chapter=March 9 – August 30, 1736 |title=The Journal of Charles Wesley (1707–1788) (1872) |chapter-url=http://wesley.nnu.edu/charles-wesley/the-journal-of-charles-wesley-1707-1788/the-journal-of-charles-wesley-march-9-august-30-1736 }}</ref> Matters did not turn out well, and he was largely rejected by the settlers. In July 1736, Wesley was commissioned to England as the bearer of dispatches to the trustees of the colony. On 16 August 1736, he sailed from [[Charleston, South Carolina]], never to return to the Georgia colony.