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The Revolutionary War was particularly hard on the Salzburgers at Ebenezer.

During the war, “ when the English left, the Americans came, when the Americans went, the English came back ,” but one thing remained the same: No matter who was there, the Salzburgers were plundered.

Some were plundered as many as ten times during the years of war.

On December 30, 1776, the Rev.

Rabenhorst died, leaving Ebenezer with no spiritual guidance.

Thus, when John Houstoun was elected governor in January 1778, Treutlen dropped out of statewide politics and returned to Ebenezer to see what he could do to help the community and people that had provided him with so much during his three decades in America.

While at Savannah, John Adam Treutlen became a Freemason by joining the first Masonic Lodge established in Georgia, named Solomon's Lodge, No. 1.

Solomon's Lodge, No. 1, constituted in 1735 by the Grand Lodge of England, was founded in the Georgia Colony by the English Freemason James Oglethorpe on February 21, 1734.

Treutlen's name is listed on the Lodge's Masonic membership roles in 1779 along with Archibald Bulloch, George Walton, General Samuel Elbert and many other Georgia leaders of the Revolution.