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The Salzburger Emigrants were a group of German-speaking Protestant refugees from the Catholic Archbishopric of Salzburg (now in present-day Austria) that immigrated to the Georgia Colony in 1734 to escape religious persecution. This group was expelled from their homeland by Count Leopold Anton von Firmian (1679–1744), Prince-Archbishop of
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Between April and August 1732, over 20,000 Protestants left Salzburg for Prussia, traveling in twenty-six columns of about 800 emigrants each. The Salzburg Protestants were assessed an emigration tax of 10% of their belongings, which they paid upon departure. Among these assets was about 800,000 Prussian thalers in cash. The emigrants were ...
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Map of New Ebenezer, founded 1736. The town was established in 1734 [2] by about 150 Salzburger emigrants, Protestant refugees who had been expelled from the Catholic Archbishopric of Salzburg (in present-day Austria) by a 1731 edict of Prince-archbishop Count Leopold Anton von Firmian.
Von Reck was born into nobility and held a land charter for 500 acres in America under certain contingencies of qualification. He accompanied the Salzburger Emigrants, German-speaking Lutheran settlers who were expelled from the Catholic principality of Salzburg, on their relocation voyage to Ebenezer, Georgia. [1]