Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America v 18: 1744-1745
- Author: Dr. George Fenwick Jones and Dr. Renate WilsonDr. George Fenwick Jones and Dr. R
- SKU: 1548
- ISBN: 089725208X
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DETAILED REPORTS Volume 18, 1744-1745. Translated and edited by Dr. George Fenwick Jones and Dr. Renate Wilson. 256 pp. Printed endspapers. 1995. Index of Places and Every Name Index of Persons. Hard cover.
"An important historical document beyond its significance for Georgia." - Georgia Historical Quarterly.
"A Wonderful resource to study this immigrant group" - Palatine Immigrant
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.
In this, the newest and final volume of the Detailed Reports, Drs. Jones and Wilson bring to a close a long and distinguished series of translations of one of colonial America's more important German-language sources. This title has long been published under the auspices of The University of Georgia Press. Picton Press is proud to have assumed publication of the series effective with Volume 18. Volumes currently Out of Print will be brought back into print as demand warrants.
Highly recommended for all students of the grand migration of German-speaking settlers to America.
