The eighteen volumes of Detailed Reports on the Salzburger
Emigrants Who Settled in America (reproduced in sixteen discrete
books) contain the diaries and letters of Lutheran pastors who
ministered to the Salzburgers, German-speaking Protestant refugees,
in Georgia. Samuel Urlsperger collected and edited these writings
into the Urlsperger Reports printed at Orphanage Press, Halle,
Germany, from 1735 to 1760. The original German publication,
Ausfuhrliche Nachricht von den saltzburgischen Emigranten, is
available through the Internet Archive, but this English-language
translation has not been available online until now. In the
mid-eighteenth century, Samuel Urlsperger of the Lutheran Ministry
in Augsburg edited the German edition of the Detailed Reports after
having distributed the many reports to the faithful in Germany. He
made major deletions for both diplomatic and economic reasons and
suppressed proper names. His son, Johann August Urlsperger,
succeeded him. He took even greater liberties with the text,
deleting large sections and rearranging others. The English
version, translated and edited by George Fenwick Jones, a German
scholar, restores the deleted sections and the proper names and
provides the original sequencing of the material. The Detailed
Reports offer insight into daily life in colonial Georgia and
provide precious details and vignettes on subjects that receive
less attention in other sources, notably African Americans, women,
silk production, and the cost of goods in a frontier colony. The
Reports are an underutilized resource for the study of this period
and an unparalleled source for the evolution of a rural community
during the early years of the colony.
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