Gabriel Maurer (abt. 1708 - 1766)

Born about 1708 in Radstadt, Salzburg, Austria

Died 1 Mar 1766 at about age 58 in Ebenezer, St. Matthew Parish, Georgia

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Biography

Gabriel Maurer was a Georgia colonist.

The family origins of Gabriel Maurer are unknown. On Sept. 15, 1734 T. M. Bonaventura Resch, a Protestant minister and consistorial assessor from Lindau on Lake Constance wrote a letter recommending several persons to settle in Georgia. One of the persons he recommended was Gabriel Maurer, from Radstadt, “a mason's apprentice, 26 years old” and that he was a “very honest soul.” This would give him an approximate birth year of 1708.^[1]He traveled on the ship with Hans Maurer, relationship unknown.^[2]

In A List of Early Settlers of Georgia Gabriel is listed with another Maurer:

• # 980. Maurer, Gabriel—Mason; embark'd 31 Oct. 1734; arrived 28 Dec. 1734. Saltsburger settled at Ebenezer, Province of Georgia; living 13 March 1738/9.
• # 981.——, Hans—Carpenter; embark'd 31 Oct. 1734; arrived 28 Dec. 1734. Saltsburger settled at Ebenezar; living 13 March 1738/9.^[3]

3 Feb 1738 gifts were distributed and Gabriel received 3 shillings and 7 pence. 25 Nov 1738 Gabriel is on a list of men living in Ebenezer.^[4]

8 Dec 1739 Gabriel told Boltzius he wanted to marry Elizabeth Held. They were married on 12 Dec 1739. ^[5]

Death

Gabriel died 1 Mar 1766 in Ebenezer and was buried the next day in the plantation cemetery..^[6]

Sources

1. ↑ Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America, Edited by Samuel Urslperger Volume One, 1733-1734 digital database with images, image page 194 https://ugapress.manifoldapp.org/system/actioncallout/4/8/a/48ae43eb-5d25-4451-a26e-28503ff76126/attachment/9f9e29129e5a63b5b741447e4d408cfd.pdf
2. ↑ Newman, Henry, Henry Newman’s Salzburger Letterbooks, Edited by George Fenwick Jones, digital database with images, image pages 591 of 644, PDF page 483 https://ugapress.manifoldapp.org/projects/henry-newman-s-salzburger-letterbooks
3. ↑ A List of the Early Settlers of Georgia, Edited by E. Merton Coulter and Albert B. Saye digital database with images, https://ugapress.manifoldapp.org/system/actioncallout/942870e2-a50c-411f-9667-389b519cc9ce/attachment/original-91386f8bd1d21dfdccbdcdd88ad0c7c5.pdf
4. ↑ Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America, Edited by Samuel Urslperger Volume V, 1738 digital database with images, image page 56, 350 of 380, https://ugapress.manifoldapp.org/projects/detailed-reports-on-the-salzburger-emigrants-who-settled-in-america-99a2f82d-acec-4227-8579-15e4cfe7a7f0
5. ↑ Detailed Reports on the Salzburger Emigrants Who Settled in America, Edited by Samuel Urslperger Volume VI, 1739 digital database with images, image page 327-328 of 386, https://ugapress.manifoldapp.org/projects/detailed-reports-on-the-salzburger-emigrants-who-settled-in-america-f479f7d4-96c2-42eb-9755-40978f246f1a
6. ↑ Voigt, A. G. and Linn, C. A., Ebenezer record book containing early records of Jerusalem Evangelical Luthern Church, Effingham, Ga., more commonly known as Ebenezer Church, digital database with images, image page 101 of 136 https://www.familysearch.org/search/catalog/164234?availability=Family%20History%20Library