Philipp Georg Friedrich von Reck

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Philipp Georg Friedrich von Reck (born September 10, 1710 in Eisenach ; † March 13, 1798 in Barmstedt ) was a German nobleman and accompanied the first transport as royal British commissioner in 1733 and 1734 and the third transport of Lutheran colonists in 1735 and 1736 , the settled in Ebenezer , Georgia . He kept travel diaries and left a sketchbook. His drawings are still important for the exploration of the Indians of North America . From 1738 to 1792 he held duties as a senior civil servant in the Principality of Anhalt-Köthen , the Duchy of Saxony-Weimar-Eisenach , the Landgraviate of Hesse-Kassel and the Imperial County of Rantzau .

family

Philipp von Reck came from a Goslar patrician family who had been given imperial nobility in 1627 . The poorly well off family provided numerous officials , diplomats and clergy . Reck's parents were Friedrich Wilhelm von Reck, bailiff in Windhausen , and his wife, a née Block. After the death of his father, Reck lived with his uncle Johann von Reck in Regensburg . Before 1756, Reck married Elisabeth Sophie von Griesheim.

Travel to Georgia

The first transport of emigrants

Reck's uncle Johann von Reck, as the advice of the British King and envoy of the Duchy of Saxony-Lauenburg at the Reichstag in Regensburg, had excellent relations with the British court. He was also in contact with senior Samuel Urlsperger , pastor at St. Anna's Church in Augsburg , who actively promoted the settlement of Salzburg emigrants in the British colony of Georgia. Thanks to the diplomat's recommendations , the nephew got a job as a royal British commissioner in 1733. In this capacity he was supposed to accompany a group of emigrants from Salzburg to the Georgia colony. Since the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, which is behind the company, had reservations about Reck's inexperience, it appointed the Swiss Jean Vat as the second, more experienced commissioner. Ultimately, however, Father's departure from Switzerland was delayed so that he was unable to join Reck.

On October 31, 1733, Reck and the Salzburg family left Augsburg. In Rotterdam they met the Lutheran pastors Johann Martin Boltzius and Israel Christian Gronau , sent by Professor Gotthilf August Francke , the head of the Francke Foundations in Halle ( Saale ) , who were to accompany them on their further journey via Dover to Charleston and Savannah .

Urlsperger valued Reck as an intelligent, agile and capable man. He also liked Reck's pietistic piety. He was not alone in making this assessment. The trustee for the construction of the colony of Georgia ( Trustees for Establishing the Colony of Georgia in America ), and General James Oglethorpe , its representative in Georgia could impress Reck later with his appearance. Although he too gave an overall positive assessment of Reck, only James Lowther, the Anglican clergyman from Rotterdam, doubted that Reck was up to his task.

Already during the Atlantic crossing at Purrysburg it became clear that Lowther's concerns were well founded. When the captain gave the Salzburgers a short supply of water and food, Reck, whose job it was actually to take care of their material needs, did not step in. Rather, Boltzius had to assert the interests of the colonists against the captain . Boltzius' interference in Reck's area of ​​responsibility led to a permanently tense relationship between the two.

On March 7, 1734 the sailing ship reached Charleston with the Salzburgers. A few days later, the settlers arrived in Savannah. In the middle of the month General Oglethorpe showed Reck the spot where the colonists were to settle. Reck had a positive impression of the location and the fertility of the location, as can be seen from the exuberant description in his diary. He oversaw the initial work on building the Ebenezer settlement, but left the colony on May 13, 1734 to return to Great Britain via Boston .

recognition

After his return, Reck made his diaries available to Urlsperger and the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, who were convinced by Reck's euphoric descriptions that he was qualified for his task. Reck made himself available to accompany further emigrant transports.

General Oglethorpe, who was in London at the same time, made sure that Reck was introduced to the British King George II . With that he reached the height of his reputation.

Exceeding competence

In order to recruit more colonists, Reck went to Germany and stayed in Herrnhut in October 1734, where he joined Count Nikolaus Ludwig von Zinzendorf . Reck was impressed by the count and the Moravian congregation he founded and promised to bring Moravian to Georgia. He intervened in the competence of the trustees who only wanted to accept religious refugees from Salzburg as colonists. He also missed the fact that one of the most important sponsors of the settlement project, Professor Francke in Halle, had considerable reservations about the Moravians. Reck's attempts at justification did not improve the situation. The annoyance on all sides was so great that Reck was not taken into account during the second transport. In November 1734, a small group of colonists from Salzburg began their journey to Georgia under the direction of Commissioner Jean Vat.

The third transport of emigrants

Most of the Salzburg emigrants of 1731/1732 had meanwhile established themselves in Prussia or the Reich . Therefore, the strict guidelines of the trustees could no longer be implemented. Reck had learned from his mistake and, in coordination with his clients, put together a third emigrant transport of 150 people, to which only a few Salzburg residents belonged. In addition, there were Lutheran religious refugees from the Habsburg monarchy and those of German origin who wanted to leave the country. On August 28, 1735, the colonists set out from Regensburg under the direction of Commissioner Philipp von Reck, accompanied by his younger brother Ernst Ludwig von Reck, and crossed from Rotterdam to Harwich . Recks transport reached Savannah on February 16, 1736 with the London Merchant , on which members of other nations also traveled.

Loss of reputation

General Oglethorpe's enthusiasm for the Reck-led colonists quickly subsided. Reck insisted on a settlement in Ebenezer and refused Oglethorpe's planned settlement in Fort Frederica .

Reck saw that his positive assessment of Ebenezer's situation had been wrong and joined Pastor Boltzius' call for the city to be relocated to a climatically more favorable location with good arable land. Although Oglethorpe finally gave in to the request and New Ebenezer could be founded, Reck sank in Oglethorpe's favor through this intervention. After filing numerous other petitions, he ended up being just annoying. In addition, Reck got involved in quarrels with Commissioner Vat, who was also described by Boltzius as difficult, and who had meanwhile worked as a warehouse keeper in Ebenezer. Boltzius played the two unloved commissioners off against each other. The dispute escalated when Reck broke into the warehouse to distribute goods while Father was away. Vat then resigned from his office.

Not only with Oglethorpe, also with the Salzburgers, Reck gambled away any reputation. In October 1735, the trustees gave him a 500-acre estate in Georgia . In addition, he received his fixed salary from the trustees. Nevertheless, he wanted to be rewarded for his services while accompanying the first and third transport by the fact that the people of Salzburg worked in his fields for free. In addition, he sold a couple from Salzburg who wanted to buy honey from an Indian with a sword when they did not want to give him priority when buying the goods.

News of Reck's behavior also reached London via Oglethorpe and Boltzius. The trustee Benjamin Martyn recommended that Reck should be removed from the Salzburg environment and relocated to another location because of its unsteadiness.

Seriously ill, Reck and his brother were cared for by the Anglican preacher John Wesley in Savannah. On October 12, 1736, both had recovered to such an extent that after their resignation they were discredited and disaffected and were able to return to Charleston. After a brief stay in London , where the reception was very formal, Reck returned to Germany.

Back in Germany

It was clear to Reck that he could not hope to continue his career in British colonial service. But the connections of the Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge, which was strongly represented at the British court by the former court preacher Friedrich Michael Ziegenhagen , even extended beyond the national borders. Samuel Berein, a confidante of Ziegenhagen, expressed doubts about Reck's integrity in a letter addressed to Professor Francke in Halle.

In September 1729 Reck had enrolled at the University of Helmstedt to study law. How long he studied there is not known. With a view to the now planned career in the service of a German state, he continued his studies in February 1738 at the University of Halle .

When Ziegenhagen found out that Reck was trying to get a job as a court master , he doubted that Reck's behavior would improve and expressed concerns about his suitability for such a job. Nevertheless, Reck was able to take up the position of chamberlain and court master of the princes of Anhalt-Koethen in the same year . In 1748, he was real Councilor of the duchy of Saxe-Weimar-Eisenach. Promoted to court councilor three years later , he resigned from the service in 1756. In the following year Reck became government councilor for tax matters in the Landgraviate of Hessen-Kassel. As a result of the invasion of French troops during the Seven Years' War , he was released in 1761. Two years later he became administrator and bailiff in the Free Imperial County of Rantzau, which was under the King of Denmark . In Barmstedt, the center of the imperial county, he was also parish bailiff . Although Reck had requested his release years earlier, he was not retired until March 1792. In the last two decades of his life he was active as a writer.

Chronicler and draftsman

Reck observed nature with idealism and curiosity. On his voyages at sea, he carefully observed the ocean and registered its phenomena. In addition, marine life found his attention. He recorded his perceptions in the form of a diary. Reck did not see the Georgia colony exclusively as a settlement area. In addition to flora and fauna, he was particularly interested in the indigenous population. At the beginning of his first stay in Savannah he visited Tomochichi , the chief of the Yamacraw . Later he also visited the Yuchi tribe, who lived in the immediate vicinity of the Salzburg colonists, and had contact with the Chickasaw . The diary of Reck's second trip published by Urlsperger contains a detailed description of the Indians and their way of life.

But Reck was also a talented draftsman. A folder with over 50 partly colored illustrations that he brought from his second trip to Europe has been preserved and is now in the Danish Royal Library in Copenhagen . It was only published in 1990. Drawings of Indians, animals and plants convey a very good picture of Georgia at the beginning of colonization. A drawing of the construction of New Ebenezer in February or March 1736 is the only surviving scene of life in the Salzburg community.

Not all representations are of the same quality. Some appear to have been made by professional draftsmen and show tropical flora and fauna not found in Georgia. It is possible that these illustrations did not come from Reck and were merely collected by him. This does not diminish the cultural and historical value of the sketches of colonial Georgia, which can clearly be attributed to Reck. In particular, they are used to this day in connection with research into the manners and customs of the Native Americans.

Fonts

  • The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge: An Extract of the Journals of Mr. Commissary Von Reck, Who Conducted the First Transport of Saltzburgers to Georgia, And of the Reverend Mr. Bolzius, One of their Ministers, Giving Account of their Voyage to, and happy settlement in that province. M. Downing in Bartholomew-Close, London 1734. Digitized
  • Philipp Georg Friedrich von Reck: Brief message from the establishment of the Salzburg emigrants to Ebenezer, in the province of Georgia in North America. How such were communicated upon request by the government councilor von Reck zu Ranzau. Friedrich Christian Ritter, Hamburg 1777. Digitized
  • Philipp Georg Friedrich von Reck (Ed.): Dr. Martin Luther's sermons on all Sunday and feast day gospels throughout the year, 2 volumes. Altona 1792/1793. [ not proven by the library ].

drawings

  • Kristian Hvidt (Ed.): From Reck's voyage. Drawings and journal of Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck. Beehive Press, Savannah 1990, ISBN 978-0-8832-2002-3 .

literature

  • Franklin Arnold: The Salzburg people in America . In: Yearbook of the Society for the History of Protestantism in Austria. Volume 25. Verlag Julius Klinkhardt, Vienna 1904, pp. 222-261. Digitized
  • C [arl] Fr [anklin] Arnold: The expulsion of the Salzburg Protestants and their acceptance by their fellow believers. A cultural and historical image of the time from the eighteenth century. Eugen Diederichs publishing house, Leipzig 1900. Digitized
  • E [dmund] von der Becke-Klüchtzner: Family tables of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden. A newly edited book of nobility. Publishing house A. v. Hagensche Hof-Buchdruckerei (Weber & Köblin), Baden Baden 1886. pp. 333–335. Digitized
  • Gerhard Florey: bishops, heretics, emigrants. Protestantism in the state of Salzburg from its beginnings to the present. Verlag Hermann Böhlaus Nachf., Graz / Vienna / Cologne 1967.
  • Herbert Franke: Reck, Philipp Georg Friedrich von. In: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon. Edited by Olaf Klose and Eva Rudolph on behalf of the Society for Schleswig-Holstein History. Vol. 4. Verlag Karl Wachholtz, Neumünster 1976, pp. 192-193.
  • Adelaide L. Fries: The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740. Reprint from 1905. Clearfield Company Inc., Baltimore 2003. ISBN 0-8063-0154-6 .
  • Dietmar Herz / John David Smith: "Into Danger but also Closer to God." The Salzburgers' Voyage to Georgia. 1733-1734. In: The Georgia Historical Quarterly. Volume 80, No. 1 (Spring 1996). Georgia Historical Society, Athens 1996, pp. 1-26.
  • Christian Gottlieb Jöcher / Johann Christoph Adelung / Heinrich Wilhelm Rotermund: Continuation and addition to Christian Gottlieb Jöcher 's general scholarly lexico in which writers of all classes are described according to their most distinguished living conditions and writings. Sixth volume. Verlag Johann Georg Heyse, Bremen 1819, Sp. 1519–1520. Digitized
  • George Fenwick Jones: The Georgia Dutch. From the Rhine and Danube to the Savannah. 1733-1783. The University of Georgia Press, Athens / London 1992. ISBN 0-8203-1393-9 .
  • Russell C. Kleckley / Jürgen Gröschl (eds.): The Letters of Johann Martin Boltzius. Lutheran pastor in Ebenezer, Georgia. German Pietism in Colonial America. 1733-1765. Edwin Mellen Press Ltd., Lewiston / Queenston / Lampeter 2009. ISBN 978-0-7734-4759-2
  • James van Horn Melton: Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier. Cambridge Studies on the American South. Cambridge University Press, New York 2015. ISBN 978-1-107-06328-0 .
  • Charlotte Lydia Preuß (edit.): Register of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg, Vol. 2 (1730-1741). In: Works from the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt in Halle ad Saale. Verlag Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Halle (Saale) 1994. ISSN 0438-4415.
  • Johann Georg Meusel: Lexicon of the German writers who died from 1750 to 1800. Vol. 11. Verlag Gerhard Fleischer the Younger, Leipzig 1812, p. 77. Digitized
  • Herbert Mundhenke (edit.): The register of the University of Helmstedt. Vol. 3 (1685-1810). Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen. Verlag August Lax, Hildesheim 1979. ISBN 3-7848-2103-0 . Digitized
  • William O'Reilly: Emigration from the Habsburg Monarchy and Salzburg to the New World, 1700-1848. In: The Atlantic World. Edited by D´Maris Coffmann / Adrian Leonard / William O´Reilly. Routledge, Taylor & Francis GroupLondon / New York 2015, pp. 117–130. ISBN 978-0-415-46704-9 .
  • Sarah B. Gober Temple / Kenneth Coleman: Georgia Journeys. Being an Account of the Lives of Georgia's Original Settlers and Many Other Early Settlers from the Founding of the Colony in 1732 until the Institution of Royal Gouvernment in 1754. University of Georgia Press, Athens (Georgia) 1961.
  • Joann Trodahl: The Salzburger Story and its Legacy in Rincon, Georgia. Kennesaw State University. Dissertations, Theses and Capstone Project, 2014. Digitized
  • Samuel Urlsperger (ed.): Detailed message from the Saltzburg emigrants who settled in America. In which, in addition to a historical preliminary report of the first and other transports of the same, the travel diary of the Royal British Commissarii and the two Saltzburg preachers, as well as a description of Georgia, also contain various letters pertaining to this. Verlag Waisenhaus, Halle 1735. Digitized
  • Samuel Urlsperger (Ed.): First continuation of the detailed message from those Saltzburg emigrants who have settled in America. In which the day registers of the two Saltzburg preachers at EbenEzer in Georgia from July 17th 1734 to 1735 ended, with some letters belonging to it included. Verlag Waisenhaus, Halle 1738. Digitized
  • Samuel Urlsperger (Ed.): Second continuation of the detailed message from those Saltzburg emigrants who have settled in America. What includes I. The day register of the two preachers at EbenEzer in Georgia from the year 1736. II. The Herr von Reck travel diary, when the same went to America in 1735 with the third transport of evangelical emigrants, along with two letters from Neu -England. III. The preacher in EbenEzer letters from 1735 and 1736. IV. Some letters from the Saltzburgers in EbenEzer from 1735, 1737, and 1738. Verlag Waisenhaus, Halle 1739. Digitized

Web links

References and comments

  1. ^ A b c d Herbert Franke: Reck, Philipp Georg Friedrich von . In: Schleswig-Holstein Biographical Lexicon . tape 4 . Verlag Karl Wachholtz, Neumünster 1976, p. 192-193 .
  2. ↑ Jöcher and Meusel mistakenly mention a place of birth "in the Hanoverian". The date of death mentioned for both of them, February 13, 1798, is also incorrect.
  3. ↑ a b E [dmund] von der Becke-Klüchtzner: Family tables of the nobility of the Grand Duchy of Baden. A newly edited book of nobility . Publishing house A. v. Hagensche Hof-Buchdruckerei (Weber & Köblin), Baden Baden 1886, p. 333-335 .
  4. ↑ Some authors, u. a. Florey and O'Reilly, wrongly refer to Reck as barons. In fact, the use of the title of baron by a branch of the family was not recognized by the Grand Duke of Baden until 1882.
  5. ^ Letter from Jonathan Belcher to Henry Newman dated July 3, 1734. Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle (Saale), Study Center August Hermann Francke - Archive., October 9, 2009, accessed on July 18, 2016 .
  6. ↑ Annual genealogical hand-book in which the current state of all the houses of the last ruling European kaysers and kings, and all spiritual and secular chur and princes, as well as counts of the Holy Roman Empire, from the latest news to find, including a correct one Directory of all Cardinals, Members of the Royal Order, also cathedral and capitular gentlemen of all Ertz and Hochstiffter in Germany, together with a special message about the current state of the Reichstag in Regenspurg, the Cammer court in Wetzlar, and the ambassadors at the high European courts of the meal and ministers. Verlag Joh. Friedrich Gleditschens seel. Sohn, Leipzig 1735, p. 558 .
  7. ↑ James van Horn Melton: Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier. Cambridge Studies on the American South . Cambridge University Press, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-06328-0 , pp. 125 .
  8. ^ A b c George Fenwick Jones: The Georgia Dutch. From the Rhine and Danube to the Savannah. 1733-1783 . The University of Georgia Press, Athens / London 1992, ISBN 0-8203-1393-9 , pp. 157-158 .
  9. ↑ James van Horn Melton: Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier. Cambridge Studies on the American South . Cambridge University Press, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-06328-0 , pp. 125-126 .
  10. ↑ Samuel Urlsperger (ed.): Detailed message from the Saltzburg emigrants who have settled in America. In which, in addition to a historical preliminary report of the first and other transports of the same, the travel diary of the Royal British Commissarii and the two Saltzburg preachers, as well as a description of Georgia, also contain various letters pertaining to this . Verlag Waisenhaus, Halle (Saale) 1735, p. 24 .
  11. ^ C [arl] Fr [anklin] Arnold: The expulsion of the Salzburg Protestants and their acceptance by their fellow believers. A cultural and historical image of the time from the eighteenth century . Eugen Diederichs publishing house, Leipzig 1900, p. 235 .
  12. ↑ James van Horn Melton: Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier. Cambridge Studies on the American South . Cambridge University Press, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-06328-0 , pp. 129-132 .
  13. ^ The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (ed.): An Extract of the Journals of Mr. Commissary Von Reck, Who Conducted the First Transport of Saltzburgers to Georgia, And of the Reverend Mr. Bolzius, One of their Ministers, Giving Account of their voyage to, and happy settlement in that Province . M. Downing in Bartholomew-Close, London 1734, p. 8 .
  14. ^ The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge. (Ed.): An Extract of the Journals of Mr. Commissary Von Reck, Who Conducted the First Transport of Saltzburgers to Georgia, And of the Reverend Mr. Bolzius, One of their Ministers, Giving Account of their Voyage to, and happy settlement in that Province . M. Downing in Bartholomew-Close, London 1734, p. 12 .
  15. ^ The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (ed.): An Extract of the Journals of Mr. Commissary Von Reck, Who Conducted the First Transport of Saltzburgers to Georgia, And of the Reverend Mr. Bolzius, One of their Ministers, Giving Account of their voyage to, and happy settlement in that Province . M. Downing in Bartholomew-Close, London 1734, p. 14-16 .
  16. ^ A b Letter from Henry Newman to a cousin Philipp Georg Friedrich von Recks dated August 15, 1734. Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle (Saale), Study Center August Hermann Francke - Archive, July 13, 2006, accessed on July 18, 2016 .
  17. ^ Letter from Philipp Georg Friedrich von Reck to Samuel Urlsperger dated September 21, 1734. Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle (Saale), Study Center August Hermann Francke - Archive, October 5, 2009, accessed on July 18, 2016 .
  18. ↑ Philipp Georg Friedrich von Reck: Brief message from the establishment of their Salzburg emigrants to Ebenezer, in the province of Georgia in North America. How such were communicated upon request by the government councilor von Reck zu Ranzau . Friedrich Christian Ritter, Hamburg 1777, p. 15 .
  19. ^ Report by Harman Verelst dated November 6, 1734. Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle (Saale), Study Center August Hermann Francke - Archive, July 13, 2006, accessed on July 18, 2016 .
  20. ^ Adelaide L. Fries: The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740 . Clearfield Company Inc., Baltimore 2003, ISBN 0-8063-0154-6 , pp. 40 .
  21. ^ Letter from Gotthilf August Francke to Friedrich Michael Ziegenhagen dated November 3, 1734. Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle (Saale), Study Center August Hermann Francke - Archive, June 6, 2016, accessed on July 18, 2016 .
  22. ^ Adelaide L. Fries: The Moravians in Georgia, 1735-1740 . Clearfield Company Inc., Baltimore 2003, ISBN 0-8063-0154-6 , pp. 41 .
  23. ^ A b James van Horn Melton: Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier. Cambridge Studies on the American South . Cambridge University Press, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-06328-0 , pp. 157 .
  24. ↑ Samuel Urlsperger (Ed.): Second continuation of the detailed message from those Saltzburg emigrants who have settled in America. What includes I. The day register of the two preachers at EbenEzer in Georgia from the year 1736. II. The Herr von Reck travel diary, when the same went to America in 1735 with the third transport of evangelical emigrants, along with two letters from Neu -England. III. The preacher in EbenEzer letters from 1735 and 1736. IV. Some letters from the Saltzburgers in EbenEzer from 1735, 1737, and 1738 . Verlag Waisenhaus, Halle (Saale) 1739, p. 805-809 .
  25. ↑ Samuel Urlsperger (Ed.): Second continuation of the detailed message from those Saltzburg emigrants who have settled in America. What includes I. The day register of the two preachers at EbenEzer in Georgia from the year 1736. II. The Herr von Reck travel diary, when the same went to America in 1735 with the third transport of evangelical emigrants, along with two letters from Neu -England. III. The preacher in EbenEzer letters from 1735 and 1736. IV. Some letters from the Saltzburgers in EbenEzer from 1735, 1737, and 1738 . Verlag Waisenhaus, Halle (Saale) 1739, p. 834 .
  26. ↑ James van Horn Melton: Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier. Cambridge Studies on the American South . Cambridge University Press, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-06328-0 , pp. 183 .
  27. ^ Letter from Johann Martin Boltzius and Israel Christian Gronau to Samuel Urlsperger from January 7, 1736. Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle (Saale), Study Center August Hermann Francke - Archive, May 26, 2016, accessed on July 18, 2016 .
  28. ↑ George Fenwick Jones: The Georgia Dutch. From the Rhine and Danube to the Savannah. 1733-1783 . The University of Georgia Press, Athens / London 1992, ISBN 0-8203-1393-9 , pp. 40-42 .
  29. ↑ Samuel Urlsperger (Ed.): Second continuation of the detailed message from those Saltzburg emigrants who have settled in America. What includes I. The day register of the two preachers at EbenEzer in Georgia from the year 1736. II. The Herr von Reck travel diary, when the same went to America in 1735 with the third transport of evangelical emigrants, along with two letters from Neu -England. III. The preacher in EbenEzer letters from 1735 and 1736. IV. Some letters from the Saltzburgers in EbenEzer from 1735, 1737, and 1738 . Verlag Waisenhaus, Halle (Saale) 1739, p. 809 .
  30. ^ Letter from Johann Martin Boltzius and Israel Christian Gronau to Samuel Urlsperger dated October 6, 1736. Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle (Saale), Study Center August Hermann Francke - Archive, June 6, 2016, accessed on July 18, 2016 .
  31. ↑ George Fenwick Jones: The Georgia Dutch. From the Rhine and Danube to the Savannah. 1733-1783 . The University of Georgia Press, Athens / London 1992, ISBN 0-8203-1393-9 , pp. 42-43 .
  32. ↑ Samuel Urlsperger (Ed.): Second continuation of the detailed message from those Saltzburg emigrants who have settled in America. What includes I. The day register of the two preachers at EbenEzer in Georgia from the year 1736. II. The Herr von Reck travel diary, when the same went to America in 1735 with the third transport of evangelical emigrants, along with two letters from Neu -England. III. The preacher in EbenEzer letters from 1735 and 1736. IV. Some letters from the Saltzburgers in EbenEzer from 1735, 1737, and 1738 . Verlag Waisenhaus, Halle (Saale) 1739, p. 853 .
  33. ↑ Samuel Urlsperger (Ed.): Second continuation of the detailed message from those Saltzburg emigrants who have settled in America. What includes I. The day register of the two preachers at EbenEzer in Georgia from the year 1736. II. The Herr von Reck travel diary, when the same went to America in 1735 with the third transport of evangelical emigrants, along with two letters from Neu -England. III. The preacher in EbenEzer letters from 1735 and 1736. IV. Some letters from the Saltzburgers in EbenEzer from 1735, 1737, and 1738 . Verlag Waisenhaus, Halle (Saale) 1739, p. 857-858 .
  34. ^ Letter from Samuel Berein to Gotthilf August Francke dated December 29, 1737. Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle (Saale), Study Center August Hermann Francke - Archive, February 22, 2010, accessed on July 18, 2016 .
  35. ^ Herbert Mundhenke (edit.): The register of the University of Helmstedt . In: Publications of the Historical Commission for Lower Saxony and Bremen . tape 3 (1685-1810) . Verlag August Lax, Hildesheim 1979, ISBN 3-7848-2103-0 , p. 150 .
  36. ↑ Charlotte Lydia Preuß (edit.): Matriculation of the Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg . In: Works from the University and State Library of Saxony-Anhalt in Halle ad Saale . tape 2 (1730-1741) . Verlag Universitäts- und Landesbibliothek, Halle (Saale) 1994, p. 180 .
  37. ^ Letter from Friedrich Michael Ziegenhagen to Gotthilf August Francke dated February 8, 1738. Franckesche Stiftungen zu Halle (Saale), Study Center August Hermann Francke - Archive, February 22, 2010, accessed on July 18, 2016 .
  38. ^ The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (ed.): An Extract of the Journals of Mr. Commissary Von Reck, Who Conducted the First Transport of Saltzburgers to Georgia, And of the Reverend Mr. Bolzius, One of their Ministers, Giving Account of their voyage to, and happy settlement in that Province . M. Downing in Bartholomew-Close, London 1734, p. 5-8 .
  39. ↑ Samuel Urlsperger (Ed.): Second continuation of the detailed message from those Saltzburg emigrants who have settled in America. What includes I. The day register of the two preachers at EbenEzer in Georgia from the year 1736. II. The Herr von Reck travel diary, when the same went to America in 1735 with the third transport of evangelical emigrants, along with two letters from Neu -England. III. The preacher in EbenEzer letters from 1735 and 1736. IV. Some letters from the Saltzburgers in EbenEzer from 1735, 1737, and 1738 . Verlag Waisenhaus, Halle (Saale) 1739, p. 823-834, 853-858 .
  40. ^ The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (ed.): An Extract of the Journals of Mr. Commissary Von Reck, Who Conducted the First Transport of Saltzburgers to Georgia, And of the Reverend Mr. Bolzius, One of their Ministers, Giving Account of their voyage to, and happy settlement in that Province . M. Downing in Bartholomew-Close, London 1734, p. 13 .
  41. ↑ Samuel Urlsperger (Ed.): Second continuation of the detailed message from those Saltzburg emigrants who have settled in America. What includes I. The day register of the two preachers at EbenEzer in Georgia from the year 1736. II. The Herr von Reck travel diary, when the same went to America in 1735 with the third transport of evangelical emigrants, along with two letters from Neu -England. III. The preacher in EbenEzer letters from 1735 and 1736. IV. Some letters from the Saltzburgers in EbenEzer from 1735, 1737, and 1738 . Verlag Waisenhaus, Halle (Saale) 1739, p. 859-876 .
  42. ↑ Kristian Hvidt (ed.): From Reck's voyage. Drawings and journal of Philip Georg Friedrich von Reck . Beehive Press, Savannah 1990.
  43. ↑ James van Horn Melton: Religion, Community, and Slavery on the Colonial Southern Frontier. Cambridge Studies on the American South . Cambridge University Press, New York 2015, ISBN 978-1-107-06328-0 , pp. 157 .
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personal data
SURNAME Reck, Philipp Georg Friedrich von
ALTERNATIVE NAMES Reck, Philipp von; Reck, Philip Georg Friedrich von; Reck, Philipp von
BRIEF DESCRIPTION German commissioner in Georgia
DATE OF BIRTH September 10, 1710
PLACE OF BIRTH Eisenach
DATE OF DEATH March 13, 1798
Place of death Barmstedt