George Fenwick Jones memoirs and research materials, 1733-2001.

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George Fenwick Jones memoirs and research materials, 1733-2001.

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This collection contains two memoirs and research materials from George Fenwick Jones from 1733 to 2001. The memoirs are entitled, Savannah Then and The Wander Years in which Jones recounts his childhood and adolescence. Also included are thirteen reels of microfilm, maps of Savannah, Georgia, and photocopies of correspondence between Johann Martin Boltzius and James Oglethorpe used in Jones' research on the colonial history of Georgia and the migration of Salzburgers and other Germans to coastal Georgia. Some of these research materials are in German.

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Georgia Historical Society

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Georgia Historical Society

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Boltzius, Johann Martin, 1703-1765

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Johann Martin Bolzius (1703-1765) was born on December 15, 1703 in the town of Forest in lower Lusatia, Germany. After studying in the Berlin preparatory school, Bolzius received a scholarship to study theology at Halle at the age of 24 years. In 1730, at the age of 27, Bolzius became the vice-inspector of the Latin School connected with the Francke Foundation. In 1733, Bolzius was invited to accompany a group of religious exiles from Salzburg to Georgia and to be their minister. The settlement ...

Oglethorpe, James Edward, 1696-1785

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James Edward Oglethorpe (1696-1785) was an English statesman and soldier who served as a member of Parliament for thirty-two years. His interest in penal reform coupled with his humanitarian bent and support for imperial expansion led him to conceive of and establish the American colony of Georgia, where newly freed and unemployed debtors from England were to be sent. In addition to his political and philanthropic interests, Oglethorpe was active in the military, attaining the rank of General an...

Jones, George Fenwick, 1916-2010

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George Fenwick Jones was born in 1916. He edited and authored several books on the Salzburgers and Germans in America, including The Salzburger Saga: Religious Exiles and Other Germans Along the Savannah (published in 1997). From the description of George Fenwick Jones maps and photographs on Georgia Salzburgers, circa 1700s-1900s. (Georgia Historical Society). WorldCat record id: 434868860 George Fenwick Jones was born in 1916. Jones is a professor emeritus of German and co...