Source: Adapted from Benjamin Martyn, An Impartial Enquiry into the State and Utility of the Province of Georgia. Oxford University,1741. 1) Note: This statement was one of many collected from persons who had lived in or passed through the Georgia Colony. This particular statement was sworn before a public office by Samuel Augspourguer, of the Canton of Berne in Switzerland as he was returning to Switzerland to guide additional Salzburgers to Georgia. Source: National Humanities Center, Journals of P.G.F. von Reck and Rev. J.M. Bolzius, 1734, excerpts. 2) Note: The above are two entries from journals that were kept by members of the first group of Salzburgers to arrive in Georgia and who helped establish the settlement of Ebenezer. It should be noted however that the settlement was abandoned after two years due to the fact that there was no accessible water passage to the Savannah River. Ebenezer was too far inland, and it was an eight-mile journey to the nearest town for provisions. Also, because of the swampy conditions, livestock could not thrive and roughly thirty Salzburgers died from dysentery. Upon Rev. Bolzius, the leader of the Salzburgers’ request, Oglethorpe granted them land on a high bluff along the Savannah River. The new settlement was called New Ebenezer. Bucketing Getting Ready to Write –
Source: Adapted from Benjamin Martyn, An Impartial Enquiry into the State and Utility of the Province of Georgia. Oxford University,1741. 1) Note: This statement was one of many collected from persons who had lived in or passed through the Georgia Colony. This particular statement was sworn before a public office by Samuel Augspourguer, of the Canton of Berne in Switzerland as he was returning to Switzerland to guide additional Salzburgers to Georgia. Source: National Humanities Center, Journals of P.G.F. von Reck and Rev. J.M. Bolzius, 1734, excerpts. 2) Note: The above are two entries from journals that were kept by members of the first group of Salzburgers to arrive in Georgia and who helped establish the settlement of Ebenezer. It should be noted however that the settlement was abandoned after two years due to the fact that there was no accessible water passage to the Savannah River. Ebenezer was too far inland, and it was an eight-mile journey to the nearest town for provisions. Also, because of the swampy conditions, livestock could not thrive and roughly thirty Salzburgers died from dysentery. Upon Rev. Bolzius, the leader of the Salzburgers’ request, Oglethorpe granted them land on a high bluff along the Savannah River. The new settlement was called New Ebenezer. Bucketing – Getting Ready to Write
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