Note 858 — Chapter VI

[This important series of tracts, edited at Halle, in Germany, by Samuel Urlsperger, was begun in 1734, with the general title, Ausführliche Nachricht von den Saltzburgischen Emigranten. It was reissued in 1735. Judging from the copies in Harvard College library, both editions had the engraved portrait of Tomo-cachi, with his nephew, and the map of Savannah County. The 1735 edition had a special title (following the general one), Der Ausführlichen Nachrichten von der Königlich-Gross-Britannischen Colonie Saltzburgischer Emigranten in America, Erster Theil. In the “vierte continuation” of this part there is at p. 2073 the large folding map of the county of Savannah. With the sixth continuation a “Zweyter Theil” begins, with a general title (1736), and a “Dritter Theil” includes continuations no. 13 to 18. This thirteenth continuation has a large folding plan of Ebenezer, showing the Savannah River at the bottom, with a ship in it, and it was published by Seutter in Augsburg, with a large map of the coast. The set is rare, and the Carter-Brown Catalogue (iii. no. 541) gives a collation, and adds that “only after many years’ seeking and the purchase of several imperfect copies” was its set completed. Harvard College library has a set which belonged to Ebeling. (Turell’s Life of Colman, 152.) Urlsperger was a correspondent of Benjamin Colman, of Boston. Calvary, of Berlin, had for sale in 1885 the correspondence of Samuel Urlsperger with Fresenius, 1738-56 (29 letters), held at 100 marks.