The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge having, under the Providence of God, been greatly instrumental in raising such charitable and liberal contributions, as have enabled them to settle the Protestant emigrants from Saltzburg at Ebenezer in the English colony of Georgia, think themselves obliged to make the following letters publick, that the world may know how just and religious a sense of gratitude and joy these honest and good people have, for all the blessings and favours they have received from God and their benefactors in the days of their distress; and that those also among us who are blessed with an ability of doing more abundant good, may be satisfied how well their charity will be bestowed in a further supply of such spiritual and temporal wants as are signify'd by them to the society, till they have it in their own power to render their settlement compleat...

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Book

Author/Creator:

Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (Great Britain)

Boltzius, Johann Martin, 1703-1765, author.

Gronau, Israel Christian, -1745, author.

Series:

Eighteenth century collections online. Part 2: New editions.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Christian life--Early works to 1800.

Christian life.

Charity--Early works to 1800.

Charity.

Charitable bequests--Early works to 1800.

Charitable bequests.

History.

Georgia--History--Colonial period, ca. 1600-1775--Early works to 1800.

Georgia.

Physical Description:

3 pages, 1 unnumbered page ; 2⁰

Place of Publication:

[London?] : [publisher not identified], [1739?]

System Details:

Mode of access: World Wide Web.

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Notes:

Title from opening lines of text.

'A translation of a letter out of High Dutch, from the Saltzburgers at Ebenezer to their benefactors in Europe' signed by 'The inhabitants of Ebenezer' is dated: Ebenezer in Georgia, 26th Octob. 1739. 'A translation of a letter out of High Dutch, from the ministers of the Saltzburgers at Ebenezer' signed by 'John Martin Boltzius, minister of the Saltzburgers at Ebenezer' and 'Israel Christian Gronau, catechist and assistant to the congregation of Saltzburgers at Ebenezer' is dated: Ebenezer in Georgia, 26th Octob. 1739.

Signatures: [A]².

Electronic reproduction. Farmington Hills, Mich. : Cengage Gale, 2009. Available via the World Wide Web. Access limited by licensing agreements. s2009 miunns

Reproduction of original from British Library.

Cited in:

English Short Title Catalog, T301561.

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