Loyalty

The Salzburgers remained strictly antislavery during the late colonial years and extremely loyal to the trustees. This was due to the help the trustees gave the Salzburgers during their immigration to the colony. It should also be noted that Georgia’s first Patriot governor, John Adam Treutlen, was a Salzburger. The town of New Ebenezer was damaged during the Revolutionary and Civil Wars. However, the church they built in 1763 still stands today. It contains the longest running Lutheran Congregation in United States. Many of the Salzburgers’ descendants still live in the area they settled over 250 years ago. Today a summer camp is located on the site that was New Ebenezer.