The Salzburger Saga: Religious Exiles and Other Germans Along the Savannah (Brown Thrasher Books) - Hardcover

Jones, George Fenwick

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0820355828 ISBN 13: 9780820355825

Publisher: University of Georgia Press, 2018

Synopsis

In 1731, the archbishop of Salzburg expelled twenty thousand Protestants who refused to abjure their religion. Three hundred of these emigrants accepted the invitation of the Georgia Trustees to settle in their new colony. The first Salzburger transport arrived in 1734 and was followed during the next seven years by three more. The Salzburgers names their colony Ebenezer. Based mainly on detailed journals and letters written by the Salzburgers’ pastor, Johann Martin Boltzius, this work describes the expulsion of the Salzburger emigrants, their journey to Georgia, the hardships they endured, and their eventual success in cattle raising, agriculture, lumbering, and silk culture and also includes details of the Swiss, Palatines, and Württembergers who joined them. Appended is a composite list of Ebenezer’s inhabitants in High German forms to facilitate genealogical research in European archives and correct errors in the version published by the Ebenezer Church.

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About the Author

GEORGE FENWICK JONES (1916-2010) was a professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Maryland. He is the author of The Salzburger Saga; Religious Exiles and Other Germans Along the Savannah (Georgia) and the general editor and translator of sixteen volumes of the Detailed Reports of the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America (Georgia).

Edition details

• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Publication date: 2018
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0820355828
• ISBN 13: 9780820355825
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 238