The Salzburger Saga: Religious Exiles and Other Germans Along the Savannah

by George Fenwick Jones

Overview

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.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9780820355825
Publisher:	University of Georgia Press
Publication date:	11/15/2018
Series:	Brown Thrasher Books Series
Pages:	238
Product dimensions:	5.50(w) x 8.50(h) x (d)

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).

Table of Contents

Acknowledgments vii

Introduction ix

Chapter 1 The Expulsion 1

Chapter 2 Old and New Ebenezer 14

Chapter 3 Progress and Palatines 37

Chapter 4 War and Peace 62

Chapter 5 New German Settlements and Swabian Transports 82

Chapter 6 Slavery, Prosperity, and the Death of Boltzius 103

Chapter 7 Dissension and Destruction 121

Epilogue 131

Appendix 1 Salzburger Names 139

Appendix 2 Inhabitants of Ebenezer and Its Dependencies 143

Bibliography 193

Index 199