History of old Broad Bay and Waldoboro, Volume 1, Part 29

Author: Stahl, Jasper Jacob, 1886-
Publication date: 1956
Publisher: Portland, Me., Bond Wheelwright Co
Number of Pages: 648


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HABURG or HAMBURG. One, Johannes, signed the Schaeffer Petition of 1767,66 and this is the only known record he has left of himself at Broad Bay.


03The Lewellyn Foster Place, now burned. ₩Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs.


65Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 5, p. 164.


66 Mass. Archives, Vol. 118, pp. 211-212.


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HAHN. Hans George Hahn was the immigrant Hahn and the founder of the family at Broad Bay. He was born February 1, 1718, at Ebersbrunn in northern Bavaria, was reared a Lutheran and learned the trade of a carpenter. On September 16, 1744, he married Margaretha Barbara, daughter of Balthasar Betz of Re- weiler, from whom he had learned his trade. Hans' wife was born at Anspach, Bavaria, "the first Sunday in Advent, 1721." She was reared a Lutheran and in 1733 had moved to Franconia. In migrat- ing to America, Pennsylvania was his destination, but the ship landed its freights in Boston, and Hans Georg reached Broad Bay in 1752, where he settled with his wife and four sons, Georg, Philip, John, and Friedrich, and an adopted daughter.


The older Hahn and his wife became the early leaders of the Moravian element in the colony. In 1757 Hahn sold his original home at Broad Bay, intending to migrate to Pennsylvania; but his Moravian followers dissuaded him from the plan and he remained in the colony, taking up a farm at Gross Neck, near the one, or perhaps the actual one, now owned by Charles Geele. In 1771 Hahn, with his wife and adopted daughter, joined the Moravian migration to North Carolina, where he finally settled at Friedland. There he died September 21, 1788. Burial was in the Friedland Cemetery, about six miles from the present Winston-Salem. His wife died at Friedland, October 18, 1789.67 Of the children, Fried- rich and his wife, Gertraut, followed the parents to North Carolina circa 1773. The other three sons remained in New England.


HANDEL. (Spelling uncertain.) A John of this name was living in East Waldoborough, enjoying squatter's rights until dispossessed of his land by General Henry Knox, on November 21, 1793.68 It is doubtful that he was an original settler, but more probably a Hessian who came to Broad Bay during the Revolution. He mar- ried Ona Brown of Waldoborough, January 12, 1790.


HAUPT. This name has been anglicized to Hopp. The Haupts were Germans, but not early settlers. John Haupt came to Waldo- borough after the Revolution, married Mary Waterman and set- tled in the South Waldoborough district. He eventually left his wife and "died in other parts." His four children were Thomas W., Deborah B., John A., and Julia A. These children married into the Pitcher, Brown, and Delano families.69 There are still descendants


67 Memoirs of Hans Georg and Barbara Hahn, Morav. Archives (Winston-Salem, N. C.). 68Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 33, p. 44; and Town Records, March, 1795; April, 1796. 69 Based on the Family Bible and oral narrative of Rogene Wiley Castner, Waldo- boro, 1939.


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in Waldoboro, even though the name has now become extinct in the community.


HAUS. Joseph Haus was elected a hog reeve on April 6, 1789. His elective office would suggest he was a late arrival, for this office was in general use as a gateway to citizenship. It is possible that Haus was one of the Hessians who came to Waldoborough on parole after the surrender of Burgoyne.


HEAVENER. This is anglicized from the German, Huebner, vari- ously spelled as Hiebner, Heibner, Heabner, Havener. The immi- grant Heavener was Charles, born in 1723, probably at Lauffen, Würtemberg, Germany.70 He seems to have come to Broad Bay in 1752 and to have settled at the very tip end of the Dutch Neck, beyond Butter Point, marked on official charts as Heavener's Point. The old man died in 1822 at the age of ninety-nine.71 He could never forget the hardships of the early days at Broad Bay. His granddaughter, Catherine Heavener, wife of Christian Storer, told the following anecdote of her grandfather to Alice Waltz Morse in her girlhood. In his last years, the old man made his home with his soldier son, Charles, and whenever it snowed he would stand looking sadly out of the window, and invariably say: "Man ver- sprach uns ein Land von Milch und Honig. Dort -" pointing at the snow - "ist die Milch und der Honig." There was a son Louis, a Moravian missionary, in Pennsylvania,72 and at Broad Bay, Charles, Matthias, and Georg, listed as family heads in the census of 1790. Charles, who lived on the home place, was a soldier of the Revolution and fought under Benedict Arnold at Bemis Heights and Saratoga.73 He was also in the battles of Monmouth, Stillwater, and Rhode Island. The farm remained in the Heavener family up to current times, Louis being the last of the name to occupy it. The descendants of old Charles Heavener are almost legion and are found today not only in the Waldoboro district, but in all parts of the United States.


HEIDENHEIM. John, a husbandman of this name, was born in 1714 and died February 27, 1781. His wife, Mary Elizabeth, was born at Broad Bay, December 11, 1754. Known children were John Peter, born December 8th, 1777, and Maria Christiana, born April 8, 1779.74 The date of Heidenheim's migration to Broad Bay is not known, nor is the location of his original homestead; but on "Oct.


TO Ludwig Genealogy. 71Ibid. 72Soelle, Diary, 1760, Morav. Archives (Bethlehem, Pa.).


"3Tombstone in the Dutch Neck Cemetery.


"Clerk's Records, Town of Waldoborough.


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28 in the sixth year of the reign of George III 1765," Johan Joseph Wibiege (Weaver), blacksmith, conveyed to John Heidenheim Lot No. 37, on the Dutch Neck, for £20.75 The name has long been extinct in Waldoboro and I know of no descendants.


HEILER. Joachim Heiler and his grown-up son, Conrad, came to Broad Bay in 1742 in the migration under the direction of Sebas- tian Zuberbühler. In part payment of their passage money, they gave to Zuberbühler their bond for £7 14s. 31/2 d., payable the 24th day of September, 1747.76 It is probable that both men joined the Louisburg expedition, were killed in action, died of disease, or re- mained at Louisburg after the close of the war. A Jacob Hilor (anglicized from Heiler), a possible son of Conrad, was a soldier in the Revolution in Captain Thomas Starrett's Company, which was detached from Colonel Mason Wheaton's regiment and sta- tioned at Glenn Cove, Rockport, June 25 to July 5, 1779.77 The name has long been extinct in the town and the family has left few traces.


HEIN. John Jacob Hein, husbandman, was the immigrant by this name. He was born at Dillenburg in 1713, and with his wife, Mar- garetha, and a son, Johannes,78 came to Broad Bay in 1753 and settled on the west side of the river. On August 21, 1772, he sold to David Vinal, mariner, for £100, his farm, being "Lot No. 12 from Medomak Falls, with all building; improvements, stock and crops growing in the fields . . . he having been 19 years in posses- sion of said land."79 In the same year he went to North Carolina, settling at Friedland, where he died in 1785. Johannes, born at Dillenburg in 1749, moved with his father to North Carolina, where he died at Bethabara in 1806. His wife was Elizabeth Vogler, a daughter of Philip Christopher. She died April 7, 1855, the last of those who migrated from Broad Bay to the Winston-Salem district.80 Conelis Hines, listed as the head of a family in the cen- sus of 1790, may have been Cornelius Hein, another son, who had elected to remain at Broad Bay. In the present day there are no known descendants of this family in the town.


HEISLER. Michael Heisler most probably came to Broad Bay in 1752 and was allotted land on the lower end of Dutch Neck, being Lot No. 53, containing thirty-five acres. In 1763 he was compelled


75 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 9, p. 255.


76York Co. Register of Deeds (Alfred, Me.), Bk. 25, p. 45.


"Edward K. Gould, British and Tory Marauders of the Penobscot (Rockland, Me., 1932).


78 Hein Memoirs, Morav. Archives (Winston-Salem, N. C.).


7º Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 4, p. 91; also Bk. 9, p. 93.


80 Hein Memoirs, Morav. Archives (Winston-Salem, N. C.).


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to repurchase his farm of the Pemaquid heirs, for £4 13s. 4d.81 He signed the Schaeffer Petition of 1767 and in 1774 was a selectman of the town. On January 25, 1785, he sold his farm on the Dutch Neck to Jacob Genthner and moved to Stahl's Hill in Warren.82 A Martin Heisler, a probable son, was listed as the head of a family in the census of 1790. This is a name that has long been extinct in the town.


HEYER. The first of this name at Broad Bay was Martin, who came from the Rhine Country via Philadelphia in the autumn of 1748. During the winter of 1748-49 he died of exposure. A son, Konrad, was born posthumously on April 10, 1749, according to tradition, in a log cabin on Schenck's Point. Konrad Heyer is a Waldo- boro landmark. His name is known to every citizen in the town. He was a lifelong Lutheran and for more than seventy-five years sang in the choir of that church. He was in the Revolution for the duration of the war, worked on the fortifications at Ticon- deroga, was at Valley Forge, crossed the Delaware in Washington's forces and participated in the attack on Trenton. After the war he settled at North Waldoborough on the Evie Teague place. At the age of one hundred, though a little deaf, he read easily without glasses.


His widowed mother was remarried to David Holzapfel, mi- grated with the Moravians to North Carolina, and died there. Kon- rad's wife was Mary Weaver. He died February 19, 1856, at the age of one hundred and six years, ten months and nine days, and was buried in the Heyer burying ground on the Teague farm. The following summer his body was exhumed, he was given a public funeral, and amid great pomp his remains were laid to their final rest in the German Protestant Cemetery. There were two known sons, Cornelius, buried in the old Heyer burying ground, and George, born April 1, 1779. This latter son had thirteen children, and from them as well as from the children of Cornelius, a host of present-day Waldoboro folk as well as numerous kin in more distant parts are descended. I am one of Konrad Heyers' great, great-grandsons and there are literally hundreds of others of them. The old "Augustus Heyer Place" on the Bremen road, the home of Konrad's son, George, was occupied by his descendants from 1803 to 1948.


HILT. There is so much detail available on this family that it defies convincing treatment. The Hilts, and there seems to have been more than one, perhaps two or more brothers, landed at Boston in the


81Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 5, p. 163. 82Į bid., Bk. 36, p. 179.


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migration of 1751 or 1752. One at least was in debt for passage, for a John Hilt was indentured to the promoters of the glass works at Germantown, where he remained until the failure of that enter- prise in 1760.83 With others he then joined the colony at Broad Bay whither many of his friends and perhaps relatives had come in 1752. He had come originally from Frankfort am Main. Mar- garet Hilt, a daughter, or possibly a niece, married Jacob Ludwig in 1755; and another daughter married Henry Stahl (1737-1827); Elizabeth, John's wife, was a daughter of Hans Simon Mellen.84 A son Peter (1749), a sea captain, died at sea in 1785, leaving an es- tate valued at £31 18s. 4d.85 John Hilt settled on the east side of the river about one half a mile above the lower falls, sold the lot in 1772 to John Bernhard Schumann, weaver,86 and died the fol- lowing year, leaving his widow and four children, John Peter, Margaret, Mary, and John, the last "three being minors under twenty-one years of age."87 There was also a Christian Hilt of Worcester, Massachusetts, a possible brother, who took refuge in Massachusetts in the French and Indian War and who on June 13, 1768, sold to George Heavener his holdings at Broad Bay, con- taining Lot No. 56 and one half of Lot No. 55 on the lower end of the Dutch Neck for £31 14s. 8d.88 There are numerous descendants of John Hilt living in Union and Waldoboro, although now there is only one family bearing the Hilt name living in the latter town.


HOCH. The Hoch family's early history parallels that of the Hilts. The probability is strong that the Hochs came to Boston in the migrations of 1751 or 1752 and arrived in debt for the passage. A John Walter Hoch indentured himself in payment to the ship to the promoters of the glass works in Germantown89 and on failure of that enterprise in 1760 came to Broad Bay to join old friends and relatives, or to bring his family with him. He was allotted land on the east side of the upper Medomak between the Great Falls and the present railroad station.90 This he sold to John Benner in 1772, and the deed indicates in specific language that this was his original lot, ". .. one right of land originally laid out to me .. . containing 100 acres." Thereafter Hoch moved to the Orff's Cor- ner area where he had previously acquired a considerable acreage on the west side of the river in the neighborhood of "Martin's and


83 Pattee, History of Old Braintree and Quincy. 84Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 11, p. 135. 85Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs. 86Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 8, p. 222. 87Ibid., Bk. 11, p. 135. 88 Ibid., Bk. 12, p. 131. 8ºPattee, op. cit. 90 Lincoln Co. Dceds, Bk. 8, p. 231,


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Schaeffer's Meadows" as it was then known.91 Theirs was a large family; there were on the male side four known sons: George (1730-1830), Martin (1731-1830), Christian and Michael.92 John Walter seems to have died or to have become a dependent prior to 1790, for the census of that year lists only George, Martin, and Michael as family heads. George deserted the colonial cause dur- ing the Revolution in the campaign against Castine. In turn he deserted from the British, was captured by the colonials, court- martialled and sentenced "to receive a thousand stripes save one." He survived the ordeal but carried the marks to his grave, whither he went at the age of ninety-nine. This family has a numerous pos- terity still living in Waldoboro.


HOFFSES. In old documents this is spelled Hoofses, and Hofses, in the original German probably Hoffes. The immigrant Hoffses at Waldoborough was Matthias, a weaver, who came to Boston in one of the Crell migrations and to Broad Bay in 1752. He was al- lotted Lot No. 49, containing twenty-five acres on the lower end of Dutch Neck, which he was compelled to repurchase of the Pemaquid heirs in 1763 for £3 6s., 8d.93 Later, finding his twenty- five acres insufficient to support his large family, he acquired land at Goose River; the last house on the east side of the road before crossing Goose River into Friendship is the old Hoffses Homestead. Near by is the private burying ground of the family. Matthias was born September 14, 1724, and his wife, Margaretha Weasten, on December 18, 1727. Born to this union were Johann Christian, Oc- tober 23, 1753; Anna Maria Susanna, 1755; Johann Gottfried, 1757; Johann Georg, 1760; Rosinnah, 1762; Johann Anton, 1764; Maria Magdalena, 1766; Andrew, 1768; Barbara, 1769; Katharina, 1772.94 The family has been a very large one and there are still many in the town who bear the name.


HOLZAPFEL. The immigrant of this name was David who came to Broad Bay with his wife in 1752.95 He came into possession of Lots No. 2 and 3 on the west side below Medomak Falls at an early date. These were sold on August 20, 1772, to Solomon Hewett for £135, and the transfer of title states that "he took them up about 20 years ago."96 Holzapfel was a carpenter by trade and according to tradi- tion he built, in 1769, the old Smouse house, reputed to have been the first frame dwelling at Broad Bay. He is said to have married as his second wife the widow of John Martin Heyer. In 1772 or 1773


91Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 9, p. 264. 92 Ludwig Genealogy. 93Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 5, p. 165.


94Clerk's Records, Waldoborough. $5Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 9, p. 91. PoIbid.


JACOB LUDWIG, SR.


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he moved his family to North Carolina in one of the Moravian migrations and settled near Friedland. He had been one of Georg Soelle's hearers at Broad Bay, but never affiliated himself with the Moravian Church.97 There are no known descendants of this fam- ily in present-day Waldoboro.


HORN. Gottfried Horn signed the Schaeffer Petition of 1767.98 Otherwise I have come across no trace of this family at Broad Bay.


ICHOLAR. There is no reference to such a family prior to 1793, when William was dispossessed of his land in East Waldoborough by the Proprietor, General Henry Knox. Icholar apparently had ex- ercised "squatter's rights." He may have been a Hessian and hence a late comer to the town.


JUNG. The immigrant of this name was Valentine, a resident of Engoldsheim in Alsace, Germany, where he was a member of the Reformed Church. Here were born two of his known children, Jacob and Michael (January 5, 1743). The wife and mother died in the year of the latter's birth; the father remarried and with his family joined the first migration under Crell, which reached Bos- ton in 1751. The next year the family proceeded to Broad Bay and settled on a lot which was perhaps on the upper east side of the river. Valentine found life in the colony a hard one. He was a signer of the Petition of 1754 to Governor Shirley and for a while was enrolled in Remilly's "Dutch Rangers." The son Michael was indentured to an English family in a neighboring town and re- mained there until the age of eighteen.


For the latter part of the French and Indian War the father took refuge in Boston, but returned to Broad Bay in 1760 and re- sumed life on his farm. Michael rejoined his father at this time and shortly became a follower of the Moravian missionary, Georg Soelle, in consequence of which he became subject to some reli- gious persecution in his own home. In 1767 he left Broad Bay and journeyed to Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, where he became an inmate of the Single Brethrens' House until he was called to serve an In- dian mission in 1780. He became a faithful missionary and labored among the Indians for thirty-three years. In 1813 he returned to Littitz, Pennsylvania, where he died December 13, 1826. He lies buried there in the Moravian churchyard.99


Jacob Jung settled on the west side of the river on Lot No. 26 below Medomak Falls. He was compelled to repurchase the hundred-and-nine-acre lot of the Pemaquid heirs in 1763 for


97 Morav. Archives (Winston-Salem, N. C.).


98 Mass. Archives, Vol. 118, pp. 211-212.


99Jung data based on Memoir of Michael, Morav. Archives (Bethlehem, Pa.).


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£14 10s. 8d. During the Revolution he was a Tory, and in conse- quence was compelled to flee to Canada. In 1781 his property at Broad Bay was appraised at £130 and was declared confiscate. He apparently returned to the town in 1786 and remained long enough at least to marry Mary Ried.100 By 1790 all the Jungs had vanished from the town, as the census lists no family head in 1790; nor are there any known descendants in the present day.


KALER. Also known as Keiler, anglicized from the German Köhler. An authentic account of this family is well-nigh impossible by rea- son of the confusion in spelling as well as in the repetition of the first names. It is, however, entirely certain that Johannes Köhler was the immigrant, or one of the immigrant ancestors of this fam- ily at Broad Bay, and that he came here in 1753 from Nenderoth "in the overlordship of Bielstein" in the Principality of Oranien- Nassau.101 He took up two lots, Nos. 6 and 10 on the west side of the river below Medomak Falls, which he was compelled to re- purchase of the Pemaquid heirs in 1764 for £10 5s. 2d.102 A Henry Kaler, possibly the immigrant John Henry, died in 1790, leaving a wife, Elizabeth, two sons, Jacob and Charles (1760-1842), and six daughters, Doredeah, Eva, Katharina, Margaretha, Anna Maria, and Maria Katherina. He also left an estate valued at £84 6s. 2d.103 Miller mentions a William Kaler as being in the colony in 1760. This may have been the John William Kaler of the Ludwig Gene- alogy (1737-1838), a possible son of John not mentioned in the will by reason of his having otherwise been provided for. The cen- sus of 1790 lists the following Kalers as heads of families: Charles, Charles, Jacob, Jacob, Jr., William and again Jacob. This repeti- tion of names suggests the possibility that instead of one immigrant Kaler there may have been two, or even more. The family has been a very large one and to this day they are one of the most numerous clans in the town.


CASTNER. This has been anglicized from Kastner or Kestner. Willi- baldus, commonly called Baltas, Baltus, Balthasar, and his wife Augustina, commonly called Justina, came to Broad Bay in 1753 from Königsbach in Baden Durlach, Germany.104 Baltas was a blacksmith by trade (signed letter to Bishop Spangenberg, Bethle- hem, May 22, 1767). He took up his first lot on the west side of the river in the area of the old Lovell Bridge. After the last Indian war he gave up this lot and with his son, Ludwig, squatted on a


100Clerk's Records, Waldoborough.


101 Passport of Johannes Köhler, issued at Dillenburg, April 10, 1753, copy in my possession.


102Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 4, p. 106.


103Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs.


104Morav. Archives (Winston-Salem, N. C.).


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vacated lot, the one next above the farm now owned by Merle C. Castner. This move was not entirely successful, since when the lot Was vacated it reverted to the proprietor. This was Lot No. 11, recently the Walter Boggs place, and the Castners were compelled to repurchase it in 1774 of Samuel Waldo's son-in-law, for £13 6s. 8d.105 Baltas died in 1774, leaving an estate valued at £110 13s. 3d.106 According to family tradition he was buried in the old Lutheran Cemetery on the shore of Merle Castner's farm.


There were three children in the Castner family of whom any record has been preserved. Johann Anton, born at Königs- bach, November 29, 1743, married Gottliebe -- born at Broad Bay, 1746, died at Bethabara, North Carolina, April 25, 1773. Johann Anton moved to North Carolina in 1769 and joined the Moravian congregation in Bethabara. He was of a stormy nature and this led to his exclusion from the church, but he was recon- ciled to the Brethren again at his death. He married four times, had eleven children, and at the time of his death, March 17, 1817, had twenty-nine grandchildren and one great-grandchild.107 Sophia Salome Castner, a daughter of Baltas, was born April 19, 1734, at Königsbach. She married Johann Georg Lagenauer who had come to Broad Bay in 1753, and on his death in 1757 she married Fried- rich Kuenzel. They migrated to Friedland, North Carolina, in 1770 and remained there until her death March 10, 1816.108 Ludwig Castner, born at Königsbach in 1751, remained at Broad Bay and became the progenitor of the Waldoborough Castners. He lived on his father's place and around 1790 built the Old Castner Home- stead. Ludwig died January 14, 1822, and is buried in the German Protestant Cemetery. His wife was Anna Schwartz, daughter of Friedrich (died at Valley Forge) and Lucy Schwartz. There were thirteen children born to this union. The will of Willibaldus men- tions only his wife, "Ustana," and his son, Ludwig; hence it is prob- able that there were no other children living in Waldoborough at that time. This family is a large one, now widely spread over the state and nation. There are still many bearing the name who live in Waldoboro.


KEIZER. The evidence on this family is most scant. It is not known when it came to Broad Bay, but by inference the suggestion may be ventured that it settled on the east side of the river. Miller lists a Franz or a Francis Keizer as being in the colony in the year 1760,109 and in this case the probability is strong that this person was the immigrant Keizer. A Francis, possibly this Francis, ap-


105 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 25, p. 19. 106 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs. 107 Morav. Archives (Winston-Salem, N. C.). 108 I bid.


109 Miller, History of Waldoboro.


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pears in the census of 1790 as a family head with five children. There is also the Philip Keizer (1743-1833) of the Ludwig Gene- alogy, who would have been a son of the original immigrant. This family, once more numerous in the community, still has a few descendants in Waldoboro bearing the family nanie.


KESLER. Johannes Kesler was probably the founder of the Kesler family at Broad Bay, but the evidence is meager. He was one of three witnesses to the will of Henry Benner, June 23, 1783,110 and a constable in the town in 1788. He was also, according to the cen- sus, the head of a family in the town in 1790. Further than this there is no trace of this family known to me.




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