Salzburger Saga: Religious Exiles and Other Germans Along the Savannah

by George Jones and George Fenwick Jones

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,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0820355828
• ISBN13: 9780820355825
• Release Date: November 2018
• Publisher: University of Georgia Press
• Length: 238 Pages
• Weight: 0.99 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.5" x 8.5"