Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America v 10: 1743
- Author: Samuel Urlsperger. George Fenwick Jones
- SKU: 1540
- ISBN: 0897252004
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Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants who Settled in America, Volume 10, 1743 New Edition Edited by Samuel Urlsperger. George Fenwick Jones, ed. Complete New Index with 2,000 entries. Contains all passenger lists. 208 pages. Hard cover. 1997 (1988)
In 1731 all remaining Protestants, a total of 21,475 people, were driven from Salzburg (now Austria) by an Edict of Expulsion issued 31 Oct 1731 by Roman Catholic Archbishop Leopold von Firmian. Those without land were given eight days to leave; those with land were given one to three months following the forced sale of their goods. These Protestant emigrants, known to us today as Salzburgers, were primarily Lutheran. Several hundred of them settled in Georgia in 1734, and the Detailed Reports give translated accounts of the affairs of the Georgia Salzburger settlers for the period 1733-1760.
This is an important primary source for students of Germanic genealogy in America's South, for colonial historians generally, and for all others interested in 18th century Lutheran affairs. These eighteen volumes offer a firsthand account of the daily lives of some of Georgia's earliest, most extraordinary, and most industrious settlers.
Genealogists have long considered Volume 10 of this important 18 Volume series to be the most important, as it contains all of the passenger lists of the Salzburger arrivals in Georgia. This new Picton Press edition indexes all 1,395 names in the passenger lists, making them readily available for you for the first time.
All genealogists interested in 18th century German-speaking immigrants will want a copy, as will libraries whose collection lack this long out-of-print volume.
