A circumstantial account of the settlement and of the affairs of these emigrants is given in a work which bears this title, “Ausfuerliche Nacrichten von den Salzburgischen Emigranten, die sich in America niedergelassen haben, worinnen die Riesediaria des konige.  Grossbritannischen Commissarii und der beyden Salzburgischen Prediger, wie auch eine Beschreibung von Georgien enthalten.  Heraus gegeben von SAMUEL URLSPERGER.” Halle, 1735-52.  This journal of the proceedings of the Saltzburg emigrants, who formed the settlement of Ebenezer in Georgia, was continued from year to year, from 1734 to 1760; in several parts, which, bound up, make five thick quarto volumes.  In Professor Ebeling’s copy, now in the library of Harvard College, is the continuation, in manuscript, [perhaps the original,] and which was never printed, by JOHN MARTIN BOLZIUS, dated January, 1765.  There is, also, a separate work, entitled Americanisches Ackerwerck Gottes, von SAMUEL URLSPERGER.  Augs. 1745-1760. 4to. 4 vol.

A most interesting account of the persecution is to be found in two thin quarto volumes by J.M.  TEUBENER, entitled Historie derer Emigranten oder Vertriebenen Lutheraner aus dem Ertz-Bissthum Saltzburg. 2 vols. 4to. Leipz. 1732.

“About twenty-five thousand persons, a tenth part of the population, migrated on this occasion.  Their property was sold for them, under the King of Prussia’s protection; some injustice, and considerable loss must needs have been suffered by such a sale, and the chancellor, by whom this strong measure was carried into effect, is accused of having enriched himself by the transaction.  Seventeen thousand of the emigrants settled in the Prussian states.  Their march will long be remembered in Germany.  The Catholic magistrates at Augsburgh shut the gates against them, but the Protestants in the city prevailed, and lodged them in their houses.  The Count of Stolberg Warnegerode gave a dinner to about nine hundred in his palace; they were also liberally entertained and relieved by the Duke of Brunswick.  At Leipsic the clergy met them at the gates, and entered with them in procession, singing one of Luther’s hymns; the magistrates quartered them upon the inhabitants, and a collection was made for them in the church, several merchants subscribing liberally.  The university of Wittenberg went out to meet them, with the Rector at their head, and collections were made from house to house.  ‘We thought it an honor,’ says one of the Professors, ’to receive our poor guests in that city where Luther first preached the doctrines for which they were obliged to abandon their native homes.’  These demonstrations of the popular feeling render it more than probable that if a religious war had then been allowed to begin in Saltzburg, it would have spread throughout all Germany.