Page 44 - Pilgrims in Georgia

V The Lutheran Salzburgers

From Austria
to
New Ebenezer,

Georgia

In 1731, twenty thousand Protestants were expelled from the Province of Salzburg in Austria, because
they refused to come back to the Roman Catholic Church, and they continued to follow the Reformation
teachings of Martin Luther. Sixteen thousand went to East Prussia, three thousand five hundred settled
in various other locations, two hundred to Holland, and though 300 came initially, eventually as many
as 1200 would occupy their settlement in Georgia.