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12Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 7, p. 170. 13 History of Waldoboro (Wiscasset, 1910). 14Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 11, p. 258. 15 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs. 16Frank B. Miller, Genealogy of the Miller Family (Rockland, Me., 1934). 17Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 23, p. 265.
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BENNER. A variant spelling is Bender. John Henry, commonly known as Henry, was the original Benner at Broad Bay. Accord- ing to accepted tradition, he came to the colony in 1753. If this be the case, it is probable that he came from the Taunus Gebirge area in the provinces of Nassau-Dietz-Idstein, where his ancestors, pos- sibly French Hugenot refugees from France, may have settled in the seventeenth century. Henry left Germany with his wife and two oldest children, John and Martin (1743-1833). The wife died on the ocean voyage; and on reaching Broad Bay, Henry reputedly married a Margaret -- , who, with her young son, Matice (Mat- thias), had been a member of the same migration. It is believed that this Margaret was well provided with gold and that she left Germany for family and social reasons. Henry first settled on the east side, on the one-hundred-acre lot recently owned by Al Davis.18 This Henry sold to Captain Charles Samson on August 21, 1769. He next settled on the east side between the middle and Great Falls of the Medomak, which lot he in turn sold in 1776 to Captain Jonathan Sprague19 of Marshfield, Massachusetts.
There are in all eleven children mentioned in Henry's will: John and Martin, by his first wife; Matice, the stepson; and eight children by the second wife: Elizabeth, Jacob, Keaty, Sedony, Sally, Charles, a second John, differentiated by the middle letter M, and Molly.20 At the close of the French and Indian War, Henry Benner, in part, perhaps, with his wife's gold and in part through exercising a squatter's right, acquired a large tract of land in the northeastern district of the town from which he later set off farms for his sons. In the Robinson Map of 1815, these appear in the pos- session of John M., Jacob, and Charles. Martin Benner received a farm and settled on Goose River. From him most of the South Waldoboro Benners are descended. Matice, the stepson, bought of Andrew Waltz, in 1785, the farm in Nobleboro just west of the Raymond Piercy place, now occupied by Henry Benner. Later, in 1794, he added to it by land purchased of Joshua Smith for £210. This original farm has been in the Benner family continuously since 1785.21 Between the years 1774 and 1802, twelve children were born to the wife of Matice, and from these most of the Nobleboro Benners are believed to have descended. The descendants of Henry Benner, who now run into several thousand, are scattered through- out the continental United States. The name is a common one in present-day Waldoboro. Among the better known Benners were Allen R. Benner, for forty-five years the beloved Professor
18Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 7, p. 86.
19 Ibid., Bk. 11, p. 244.
20 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs.
21Documents in possession of Henry Benner, Nobleboro, Maine.
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of Greek at Phillips Andover, and his brother, Dr. Richard, a dis- tinguished physician, who died in Springfield, Massachusetts, in 1938.
BORNEMANN. John G. Bornemann (1752-1830)22 was the first of this name at Broad Bay. The title of Doctor, commonly affixed to his name, suggests that he may have been a medical officer in the English Army; for he was a Hessian who became a prisoner in the surrender of Burgoyne, and from the prison camp in Boston came to Broad Bay on parole in 1778.23 He was one of the incorporators of the German Protestant Society in the year 1800. A probable son, John, born in 1786, was living in Waldoboro in 1866.24 The Robinson Map of 1815 shows that a John G. Bornemann oc- cupied a farm of two hundred acres on the east side of the river, just across from the farm of Andrew Wagner, in the neighborhood of the present Wagner Bridge. This could have been the property of the immigrant or that of his son, John. The list of the Borne- mann descendants was never large and there are only a few of them living in present-day Waldoboro.
BORNHEIMER. The name has varied English spellings. If we are to follow the Waldoborough Town Records, rather than the fre- quently unreliable Ludwig Genealogy, then Gottfried, or God- frey, Bornheimer was born in 1741, most probably at Nenderoth, Province of Dietz, Germany. He came to Broad Bay in 1753 with the Ludwig family and was the original immigrant of his name. At the close of the Seven Years' War, he took up land in the north- eastern section of the town, whither he took his bride, Anna Kath- erina Elizabeth Ludwig (1738-1824), a daughter of Joseph Lud- wig, Sr. Five children were born to this union: Jacob Heinrich, b. October 10, 1764; Johannes Joseph, b. January 30, 1768; Anna Katharina Elizabeth, b. March 30, 1770; Christian, b. September 4, 1772, and Anna Margaretha, b. December 3, 1774. Cornelius Born- heimer, one of the incorporators of the German Protestant Society in 1800, may have been another son. Godfrey Bornheimer died in Waldoborough in 1819.
BROEST. According to Lincoln County Probate Records, John Peter Broest was one of three men to inventory the estate of An- drew Willard at Broad Bay, June 15, 1769. Nothing further is known of this family, which apparently disappeared early from Broad Bay history, perhaps migrating to South Carolina in 1773.
22Wiscasset Christian Intelligencer, May 28, 1830. 23Miller, History of Waldoboro, p. 86.
24M. R. Ludwig, Ludwig Genealogy (Augusta, Me., 1866).
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BROTHE. References to this family are extremely scant. On Sep- tember 21, 1763, a Peter Brothe bought Lot No. 5 on the west side of the Medomak, of the Pemaquid heirs. It contained twenty-five acres and one hundred and forty poles, and the price paid seems to have been a repurchase, and was £3 9s. 4d.25 The identity of this Peter is far from certain, since the name may be no more than a variant of some other family name.
BROTMANN. This was not a large family at Broad Bay, and com- paratively little is known about it. It is probable that Melchior was the original settler, and that he died some time before 1790. He seems to have come to Broad Bay in 1753 and to have settled on a lot on the west bank of the river between the lower and middle falls.26 He married a daughter of Martin Sidelinger27 and was con- nected with the Lehr family. A probable son, Charles, was listed as the head of a family in the census of 1790, and the Robinson Map of 1815 shows him occupying a farm in the North Waldoborough district, extending from the southern shore of Medomak Pond in a southwest direction toward the road running easterly toward Will Mink's store. The name has long been extinct in this area and there are few known present-day descendants elsewhere.
BUCD. This is a doubtful name. An Anton Heinrich Bucd -- , sig- nature unreadable, signed the Schaeffer Petition of 1767 to Gov- ernor Francis Bernard.28
BUCH. This is also a doubtful family. A Georg Buch, or Euch - the signature is most illegible - signed the same petition, as a resident of Broad Bay.
BURKETT. German variations are Burckhardt, Burchardt, Bork- hard, Burghart. This family, of French Huguenot extraction, was once a numerous one in Waldoborough. The data on it are ample, but an accurate integration of the facts is rather difficult. The rec- ord may be as follows: John Jacob Burckhard, from Eichfelden, in the old Duchy of Franconia, came to the Boston district in 1751, in Joseph Crell's second migration, landing November 9, 1751.29 Under indenture for payment of passage money, he was sent to work in the Glass Works at Germantown. In 1760, when the Glass Works became defunct, Jacob migrated to Broad Bay.30 This Jacob
25.Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 7, p. 31. 26I bid., Bk. 48. p. 26. . 27 Patterson, "Seitlinger Agreement," Linc. Co. Prob. Recs.
28 Mass. Archives, Vol. 118, pp. 211, 212.
29 Bernard Fäy. "Une Colonie Rhénane en Nouvelle Angleterre au xviii Siècle," Franco-Am. Rev., I, No. 3, pp. 276-283.
80 Mass. Archives, XV A, 266; and Wm. S. Pattee, A History of Old Braintree & Quincy (Quincy, 1878).
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was not alive in 1790. Two brothers, or more likely, two sons, Henry and Anthony, had preceded him to Broad Bay where, in 1763, Henry repurchased his farm of the Pemaquid heirs for £2 7s. 4d. This was the northernmost half of Lot No. 55, on the Dutch Neck. At this time Lot No. 54 was in possession of an Anthony Burckhardt.31 Henry, having only seventeen and one- half-acres on the Dutch Neck, later acquired the farm south of the old Will Ewell homestead in South Waldoborough; and again in 1784 John Burkett, a possible son of Henry, acquired the old Mose Burkett Farm,32 originally Lot No. 6, of John Schurz. At the same time he bought of Seth Paine the southern half of the present Ewell farm, the northern half being in the possession of Henry Burkett, who sold it to the Ewells in 1806,33 apparently going to live with his son John, at whose home he died in 1818. In the census of 1790 Henry and John Burkett are the only names of this family listed as family heads. The descendants of these early Burketts are now scattered throughout the United States, and the name is now borne by only one family in the town. In 1940 a descendant, Franz U. Burkett, was Attorney General of the State of Maine.
CHAB. A Bernhard Chab was a resident of Broad Bay in 1767, when he signed the Schaeffer Petition to Governor Bernard.34
For names now beginning with C, see K. The initial con- sonant c occurs in few native German words, except in combina- tions with other consonants, and in words of foreign origin.
DAVID. John David, a yeoman, probably had as his first wife a Sechrist, and Mary Moners, his second wife, was the widow of Jacob Waltz. They lived on Lot No. 3, one hundred acres on the Thomas Hill ridge just north of John Henry Benner's lot. This location would identify him with the migration of 1753. In order that Mary might "not want for the necessities of life" in her old age, he deeded this farm to their son, Friedrich, and wife, Mary, of Broad Bay, reserving a home and care for his wife (April 21, 1771). To this deed he made his mark, but his wife signed in Ger- man script, Mary Moners David.35 John David and Mary were thereafter resident in Boston, where on October 7, 1771, they deeded their one-third interest in the estate of Jacob Waltz, de- ceased, to Captain Charles Samson, Jr.36
31Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 46, p. 163. 3ªIbid., p. 162. 33Old deeds in the possession of Mabel R. Ewell, Waldo., Me.
34Mass. Archives, Vol. 118, pp. 211, 212.
$5Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. S, p. 69. 36Ibid., Bk. 7, p. 223.
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DEIS. Jacob Deis was the head of this family at Broad Bay, the rec- ord of which is most scant. He signed the Petition of May 13, 1754,37 to Governor Shirley, and thereafter disappeared. This docu- ment was signed only by the more centrally located and older settlers. Hence it is probable that Deis came to Broad Bay in 1742 and that his lot was on the upper east side. After the Indian wars he may have taken up lands farther to the eastward; for a Jacob Dice, possibly anglicized from Deis, dealt heavily in lands at Majer- bigwaduce (Castine) in the late 1760's down to the Revolution.38
DEMUTH. Johannes Heinrich, the founder of the Demuth family at Broad Bay, was of French Huguenot descent. He landed at Bos- ton on November 9, 1751, coming from Bir Kenbauel in the Prin- cipality of Hachenberg. Apparently a brother, George Henry, of Wiesenbachen in the same province, came with him to Boston. Both signed the Crell broadcast in Boston, December 17, 1751; but there is no evidence that George migrated from Boston to Broad Bay.39 John Henry was a signer of the Shirley petition of 1754. His farm seems to have included the homestead lot now occu- pied by Henry Hilton, plus some adjacent territory. He was killed on Storer's Point in the French and Indian War. Miller mentions a Martin Demuth as being in the colony in 1760, but if there was such a person, it was in all likelihood a son of John Henry. Other sons were George and Henry. The former was one of three men to inventory the estate of Jacob Lash in 1777.40 He also witnessed the will of Prudence Chapman on November 17, 1778.41 The cen- sus of 1790 lists George and Henry Demuth as being heads of fam- ilies in that year. The former lies buried in the Lutheran Cemetery and his stone bears the date September 10, 1810, age, seventy-five. This would place his birth in Germany in the year 1735. The Demuths were once a numerous family in the Waldoborough dis- trict, but the name is now extinct in this area.
DICKENDORFF. The record of this family is a scant one. Jacob of this name may have been a stay-over from the Swiss migration in 1745 to the Carolinas. His farm was at upper Broad Cove in Bremen, where he did considerable in land speculation in the 1760's.42
DOCHTERMANN. The immigrant Dochtermann was Paulus. He was a signer of the Shirley petition of 1754 and is identified with the
37 Mass. Archives, XX A, 240-242. 38Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 3, p. 246.
39Fäy, Franco-Am. Rev. 40 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs. 41 I bid. "Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 3, p. 226.
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migration of 1742. The location of his farm adds further confirma- tion to this inference, as it is in the very heart of the district set- tled by the migrants of that year. It was apparently Lot No. 7 on the east bank, embracing the present farm of Frank Ewell and a strip of land from the northern side of the old Burkett farm of sufficient width to total the customary twenty-five rods. On No- vember 3, 1770, he witnessed a deed involving a transfer of land from John Ulmer, Jr., to Michael Seitz.43 What became of Doch- termann is not known. He may have joined the migration to South Carolina in 1773.
DOERFLER. The Doerflers were of the migration of 1742. The head of the family apparently died during the voyage across the ocean, leaving a widow and a daughter, Jacobina. This young woman was born at Durrenbuchen in Baden Durlach, March 31, 1723.44 This fact undoubtedly identifies the family home. The daughter was married to Melchior Schneider on the trip across the sea. In 1770 she migrated with her husband to North Carolina and settled at Wachovia, about a mile from the Friedland schoolhouse. The widow Doerfler undoubtedly remarried in the colony, and with her marriage the name of Doerfler became extinct in the Waldo- borough district. The daughter, Jacobina, died at Friedland, North Carolina, December 18, 1795.45
DOLHEIM. This is anglicized from the German, Dohlheim. Refer- ences to this family in contemporary documents are scarce indeed. Miller mentions a George Dolheim as being at Broad Bay in 1760.46 This was George Anton Dolheim, both names being used. Anton owned, in 1770, a farm on the east side, Lot No. 16, being the lot next north of Harold Levensaler's north line.47 Anton was a road surveyor in 1778,48 and George, in 1786, was one of three men to inventory the estate of Georg Light, Jr.,49 and according to the Ludwig Genealogy, was a soldier of the Revolution. The name, once a common one in the town, has in recent times become ex- tinct, although Mr. Frank Dohlheim, a descendant, is believed to be residing in Whitefield, Maine.
EDEL. There is very little known of this family, the sole reference being to a Conrad. On May 20, 1793, William Wagner, for the sum of £50, sold the lot on which he was then living to Conrad
43Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 7, p. 90.
44 Schneider Memoir, Archives Moravian Church (Winston-Salem, N. C.). 45 I bid.
"History of Waldoboro.
47 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 8, p. 150.
48Clerk's Records, Town of Waldoborough.
៛Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs.
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Edel.50 This farm was located on the west side of the river, a short distance above the lower falls. At this time Wagner moved to the Orff's Corner district to a farm adjoining the bridge which now bears his name.
EISELE. This name has been anglicized to Eisley, Isley. The Chris- tian name of the immigrant Eisele was Franz. He made his mark on the Shirley Petition of 1754. There is some ground for identify- ing him with the migration of 1742. Sometime prior to 1769 he had secured from Melchior Schneider the old Dexter Feyler farm which was Lot No. 12 "on the east side of Broadbay river." Franz became a dependent in 1790. The census of that year gives the place as the residence of his son, Michael, who married Christina, the daughter of Godfrey Feyler; and through her it was that this farm eventually came into the possession of the Feyler family. The Robinson Map of 1815 shows the son, Michael, as still being in residence on this farm. The family was never a numerous one and the name has been extinct in Waldoborough for many decades. Up to twenty years ago there was on this farm, about one hundred yards nearly east by north of the dwelling, the private burying ground of the Eiseles, but the stones are now down and covered by humus and bushes.
EUCHT. A Johan Georg Eucht (dubious orthography) signed the Schaeffer Petition of 1767. Further than this, nothing is known of such a family.51
EUGLEY. This is anglicized from the German Uekler, or Uekeler, in the Birth and Baptismal Certificate of Susana (1741-1827); par- tially anglicized to Ukkely in a clerk's copy of the Broad Bay Church Register (1762).52 The immigrant Eugley, the progenitor of all Waldoborough Eugleys, was Bernhardt, "a citizen and peas- ant of Langensteinbach," Germany. He came to New England in 1752 with his wife, Regina, and their children, among whom was Susana, born at Langensteinbach, on February 4, 1741 (new reck- oning). On November 18, 1762, she was married at Broad Bay to John Bernhard Kinsel. Her death occurred September 10, 1827, and burial was in the Lutheran cemetery. There were three known sons, Daniel, Bernhardt (1735-1827), and Benjamin.53 Bernhardt Eugley, Sr., settled on the west side of the river, his farm being near the junction of the present Bremen and Dutch Neck roads at what is known as Eugley's Corner. In 1762 he was compelled to
50 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 31, p. 246.
01Mass. Archives, Vol. 118, pp. 211-212.
52Documents in possession of Dr. Benj. Kinsell, Med. Arts Bldg., Dallas, Tex. 5$ Ibid.
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repurchase his land of the Pemaquid heirs for £17 1s. 14d.54 Old Bernhardt died in 1772. The old Eugley homestead, still standing at the junction, was built by the son, Daniel.55 This family has been one of the most numerous in Waldoborough history, and there are still many in the town today who bear its name.
An interesting sidelight is furnished on the use of the Ger- man language in the back-districts, in a newspaper report of the death of Bernhardt Eugley, Jr .:
Bath Inquirer, Bath, Maine, 1827. Died in Waldoborough 1st inst. Mr. Bernhard Eugley, aged 92. He was one of the few survivors who emigrated to that place with Brig. Gen. Waldo from Germany in 1752. Although he resided since that time in Waldoborough, he never became well enough acquainted with the English language to use it in conversa- tion. He, as well as most of the early emigrants, survived to a great age.
FEILHAUER. Variant spellings are Filhour, Philhour, Feilheur, Fill- hauer. Daniel was the first of his name in Broad Bay. Little is known of the family, but from the location of his farm, he may be identi- fied with the migrations of 1752. His land, Lot No. 20, containing ninety-nine acres, was repurchased of the Pemaquid heirs in 1762 for £13 14s.56 His importance in Broad Bay history lies in the fact that in 1764 he introduced Indian corn and cultivated it on his land. He was one of the original wardens when the town was in- corporated in 1773, and in 1783 he was one of three men to appraise the estate of Christian Klein.57 Daniel died circa 1809, certainly before 1815, for the Robinson Map of that year gives the widow Fielhour as occupying the farm (the Joe Creamer lot on the west side). The name has been extinct in the town for decades, and so far as I know there are no descendants.
FEILTREU. In 1786 a Daniel Feiltreu was one of three men to in- ventory the estate of Peter Hilt.58 Nothing further is known of this family, which leads to the suspicion that the name may be a garbled form of Feilhauer. The recorders in Wiscasset were notorious in the matter of garbling German names.
FEYLER. Variant spellings are Filer, Filler, Feiler, Feller, Filor. The first Feyler at Broad Bay was Godfrey, the "Hogreaf" of 1774. There is warrant for believing that he came to the Medomak in 1742, and that his lot has been in uninterrupted possession of his descendants for over two hundred years. It is now owned and oc- cupied by Mrs. Carrie Feyler Hart. With Godfrey Feyler there
54Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 4, p. 253.
55Oral narrative, Elmer Eugley, great-grandson of Daniel.
56Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 16, p. 88.
57 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs. 58 Ibid.
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came to Broad Bay, his wife, Regina, and the following children, born either here or in Germany: Charles; John, 1754-1831; Chris- topher, 1760-1849; Christiana, wife of Michael Eisele; and Bar- bara (Schenck).59 Godfrey died in 1784, and in 1787 the heirs deeded their claims in the old homestead to their brother, John. This farm was Lot No. 3, on the east side of the river. John Feyler died circa 1831, and his wife, born in Germany, died in 1827. They were buried in the old Lutheran cemetery. The present Feyler house was built by John in 1805, when his son, Zenas (1801-1892), was a boy of four.60 This family has been a numerous one, and there are many who bear the name living in present-day Waldo- boro.
GENTHNER. Also used in the form of Gentner, anglicized form of German, Guenthner. There are little available data on this family. Miller lists a David and a Friedrich Genthner as being at Broad Bay in 1760; but this is not authenticated by any evidence known to me, nor are there any such names listed in the census of 1790. The first Genthner at Broad Bay seems to have been the house- wright, Johannes, the abbreviated and anglicized "Jas." of the Muster Roll of Römele's Dutch Rangers (1754), and the highway surveyor of 1777. On September 21, 1763, this John repurchased his farm, Lot No. 32, containing one hundred and four acres on the west side, of the Pemaquid heirs, for £13 17s. 4d.61 In the cen- sus of 1790, the two Genthners listed as family heads were Andrew and Jacob. John apparently died or accepted the status of a de- pendent prior to this time. Andrew and Jacob must have been the sons of John. This family has been a most numerous one in the town down to and including the contemporary generation.
GETSINGER. The only reference to this family is to be found in the Knox Papers. In 1760 John North, at the probable instigation of the Waldo family, compiled a partial list of settlers at Broad Bay. Included in this group was Henry Getsinger. His complete dis- appearance at later dates could be explained by the inference that he was one of those to join the migration of 1773 to Abbeville County, South Carolina.
GROTHE. A Peter Grothe repurchased his farm, Lot No. 5 on the west side of the Medomak, on September 21, 1763, of the Pema- quid heirs for £3 9s. 4d.62 Beyond this fact indicating a presence, there is no trace of the family in the town's history.
6º Private papers in possession of Carrie Feyler Hart, 1940. 60Oral narrative, Carrie Feyler Hart.
61Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 7, p. 138.
63Ibid., p. 31.
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GROSS. John Martin was the Nestor of the Gross family, and its founder at Broad Bay. He was born at Erlangen, Germany, Feb- ruary 1, 1679, and came to Broad Bay with sons and daughters in 1753. At the age of seventy-five, he was the oldest member of that colony. His oldest son, Martin, remained in Germany where he was a book and newspaper printer, the founder of the Gelehrte Zeitung in Erlangen, in 1746. John Martin was allotted a farm on the Neck which bears his name, a lot which ran from the eastern shore of the Neck westward on to the main. It was on the western end of this property, on the Bremen road, that his grandson, Peter, later built a house and reared his family.63 John Martin "passed out of time" on February 11, 1768, and was buried in the cemetery of the second Lutheran Church at Meetinghouse Cove. His tablet came into the possession of Georg Schmouse who presented it to the German Protestant Society in whose Church it is now pre- served. Its inscription follows: "Hier liegt begraben, Herr John Martin Gross, und ist geboren den 1, Februar an 1679 und ist gestorben den 11 Februar, 1768 im 90 Jahr."
It is noteworthy that John Martin lived through the hard years of hunger and Indian warfare and saw the colony achieve lasting peace and a settled economy before his death. An inven- tory of his estate, September 7, 1781, showed a value of £93 10s. 1d. with receipts for legacies by his two daughters, Mary, wife of Christopher Newbert, and Mary Lessabot, wife of Peter Mink.64 The sons who came to Broad Bay with John Martin seem to have been Johan Georg, blacksmith, born at Erlangen in 1733, and Peter, also a blacksmith. John Georg repurchased his farm, Lot No. 36, west side, containing eighty-four and one-half acres, of the Pemaquid heirs, on September 2, 1763, for £11 5s. 4d.65 John, Peter, and the widow Gross are listed as heads of families in the census of 1790. A probable grandson, John Bertram, according to the Robinson Map of 1815, was then occupying a farm of one hun- dred and forty-one acres in North Waldoborough, the lot occu- pied in recent years by Isadore Vose. The Grosses have been a prolific family and there are many of their blood and name in present-day Waldoboro.
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