Johann Martin Bolzius Answers a Questionnaire on Carolina and Georgia

J OHANN MARTIN BOLZIUS (1703-1765) left his position as Inspector Vicarius of the Latin Orphan House at Glaucha near Halle late in I733 to join the first group of Salzburgers at Rotterdam in their pilgrimage to England and to the infant colony of Georgia. There he served his growing flock as spiritual and civic leader until his death some thirty years later.1 In these early decades of Georgia's colonial history Pastor Bolzius lived at Ebenezer, twenty-five miles up the Savannah River from the town of Savannah, where he showed a constant concern, appropriate to his pious mind and religious office, for the spiritual welfare of his charges, and watched over their efforts to provide the daily bread. As a literate man in such a position of leadership he became a figure of importance in Georgia, on the Continent at the sources of emigration, and in England at the seat of empire where directions were given and decisions made.