Protestants driven from Austria by Catholic Archbishop

Peter Gruber (;ater Groover) was born ca 1700 in Taxenbach, Berchtesgaden, in the vicinity of Salzburg, Austria. After the protestants were driven from Austria, they searched for several years for a new home. About 1734 General James Oglethorpe discovered about 100 people were still searching. He invited them to the Georgia Colony and they settled in an area known as Ebenezer.

Gruber/Genealogy has been traced. Source: The Georgians, Genealogies of Pioneer Settlers by Jeannette Holland Austin