[857] [This tract is assigned to 1747 in the Carter-Brown Catalogue, iii. no. 849, and in the Harvard College library catalogue.—Ed.]
[858] [This important series of tracts, edited at Halle, in Germany, by Samuel Urlsperger, was begun in 1734, with the general title, Ausführliche Nachricht von den Saltzburgischen Emigranten. It was reissued in 1735. Judging from the copies in Harvard College library, both editions had the engraved portrait of Tomo-cachi, with his nephew, and the map of Savannah County. The 1735 edition had a special title (following the general one), Der Ausführlichen Nachrichten von der Königlich-Gross-Britannischen Colonie Saltzburgischer Emigranten in America, Erster Theil. In the “vierte continuation” of this part there is at p. 2073 the large folding map of the county of Savannah. With the sixth continuation a “Zweyter Theil” begins, with a general title (1736), and a “Dritter Theil” includes continuations no. 13 to 18. This thirteenth continuation has a large folding plan of Ebenezer, showing the Savannah River at the bottom, with a ship in it, and it was published by Seutter in Augsburg, with a large map of the coast. The set is rare, and the Carter-Brown Catalogue (iii. no. 541) gives a collation, and adds that “only after many years’ seeking and the purchase of several imperfect copies” was its set completed. Harvard College library has a set which belonged to Ebeling. (Turell’s Life of Colman, 152.) Urlsperger was a correspondent of Benjamin Colman, of Boston. Calvary, of Berlin, had for sale in 1885 the correspondence of Samuel Urlsperger with Fresenius, 1738-56 (29 letters), held at 100 marks.
There is a supplemental work in four volumes, printed at Augsburg in 1754-60, bringing the journal down to 1760, Americanisches Ackerwerk Gottes. It is also in Harvard College library, and contains the mezzotint portrait of Bolzius, the senior minister of Ebenezer, which is engraved on wood in Gay’s Pop. Hist. of the U. S., iii. 155. Harvard College library has also a part of the journal, with the same title (Augsburg, 1760), which seems to belong chronologically after the third part. (Cf. Brinley Catalogue, no. 3926.)
Other illustrative publications may be mentioned: Kurtze Relation aus denen aus Engelland erhaltenen Briefen von denen nach Georgien gehenden zweyten Transport Saltzburgischer Emigranten (cf. Leclerc, Bibl. Americana, 1867, no. 1512; Harrassowitz, ‘81, no. 119). Auszug der sichern und nützlichen Nachrichten von dem Englischen America besonders von Carolina und der fruchtbaren Landschaft Georgia, etc. ... von D. Manuel Christian Löber, Jena, without year.
Fred. Muller (Books on America, 1877, no. 1679) notes C. D. Kleinknecht’s Zuverlässige Nachricht von der schwarzen Schaaf- und Lämmer-Heerde, Augsburg, 1749, as containing in an appendix Nachrichten von den Colonisten Georgiens zu Eben-Ezer in America.—Ed.]
[859] [This has a lithograph of the Bolzius likeness in the Urlsperger Tracts. Dr. Sprague (American Pulpit, vol. ix. p. vi.) calls the Salzburger settlement the fourth in order of the Lutheran immigrations into the English colonies. The same volume contains a notice of Bolzius by Strobel.—Ed.]
[860] [Cf. Field, Ind. Bibliog., no. 1085; Sabin, xii. p. 336; Carter-Brown, iii. no. 776. It is reprinted in the Georgia Hist. Soc. Collections, vol. i. A London dealer, F. S. Ellis (1884, no. 204), priced a copy at £7 10s. Three other contemporaneous tracts of no special historical value may here be mentioned: A New Voyage to Georgia, by a Young Gentleman, etc., to which are added, A Curious Account of the Indians, by an Honourable Person [Oglethorpe], and A Poem to James Oglethorpe, Esq., on his arrival from Georgia, London, 1735, with a second edition in 1737; A Description of the famous new Colony of Georgia in South Carolina, etc., Dublin, 1734; and A Description of Georgia by a Gentleman who has resided there upwards of seven years, and was one of the first settlers, London, 1741. This last (8 pp. only) is included in Force’s Tracts, vol. ii. Cf. Carter-Brown, iii. nos. 536, 562. It is in Harvard College library.—Ed.]
[861] [The work is in three volumes, the second containing “A state of that Province [Georgia] as attested upon oath in the Court of Savannah, Nov. 10, 1740.” (Cf. Carter-Brown, iii. 720.) There is a copy in Harvard College library.—Ed.]
[862] [For some years at least yearly statements of the finances were printed, as noted in a later note in connection with Burton’s sermon. A single broadside giving such a statement is preserved in Harvard College library [12343.4]; and in the same library is a folio tract called The General Account of all Monies and Effects, etc., London, 1736. This is in good part reprinted in Bishop Perry’s Hist. of the American Episcopal Church, i. 360.—Ed.]
[863] Carter-Brown, iii. no. 714.