Henry Newman's Salzburger Letterbooks - (Paperback)

Book Synopsis

Henry Newman's Salzburger Letterbooks contains correspondence between Henry Newman and Samuel Urlsperger, a German Lutheran minister in Ausburg. These two men were heavily involved in the settlement of the Salzburgers in Georgia. Their letters, which contain both inward and outward correspondence, provide a unique journal of the settlement of Salzburg and colonial life in Georgia.

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About the Author

HENRY NEWMAN (1670-1743) was the author of An Almanack Containing an Account of the Coelestial Motions (1691), Non cessant anni, quamvis cessat homines (1690), and News from the Stars: An Almanack . . . for the Year of the Christian Empire, 1691.

GEORGE FENWICK JONES (1916-2010) was a professor emeritus of German and comparative literature at the University of Maryland. He was the author of The Salzburger Saga: Religious Exiles and Other Germans along the Savannah and The Georgia Dutch: From the Rhine and Danube to the Savannah, 1733-1783 and the general editor and translator of sixteen volumes of the Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigratns Who Settled in America (Georgia).

KAREN AUMAN is an assistant professor of history at Brigham Young University. She is currently working on a manuscript based on her PhD dissertation titled "The Good Forest: Settlement and Community in Trustee Georgia." She is also a certified genealogist.