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KINSEL or KINSELL. This has been anglicized from the German, Kuentzel or Kuenzel. Johannes Kuentzel, the immigrant, was born February 22, 1709, at Königsbach, Baden Durlach, Germany. He was a carpenter by trade and on June 21, 1735, married Maria Elizabeth Jung, born September 16, 1714, at Königsbach. To this union there were born five children in Germany and one at Broad Bay: John Friedrich was born February 22, 1737; Christina Bar- bara, September 14, 1739; Johann Bernhard, July 31, 1741; Maria Margaretha, May 4, 1744; Elizabeth, June 12, 1746, and the sixth child, John, at Broad Bay in 1755. In 1753 the Kinsels came to "Broad Bay in New England" bringing with them a copy of the church record111 from which these data are excerpted. It concludes with a pious prayer: "God preserve the parents and five children in health and graciously lead them through his Holy Spirit with the protection of the Holy Angels to that place they anxiously desire." John, the father, settled on Lot No. 24, on the west side midway between the Falls and the Dutch Neck. Friedrich, a son, acquired Lot No. 16 on the summit of the old "Kinsell Hill," the farm now owned by Mark Smith. His house was built of the timber of the house erected by General Waldo to house the colony of 1753 during the first winter. In fact, it was moved from its original site near the junction of the Soule's Bridge and Winslow's Mills road. "The Old Long House on the Hill," as it was known, was described to me by Alice Waltz Morse who was in it as a girl. as follows:
As I remember the old house it must have been about sixty feet long and very narrow, so that each room represented the width of the house. There were two cellars, one deeper than the other with steps connect- ing. It was empty for many years after Charles (1832-1872), the last Kinsel to occupy it, moved with his mother to the small place on the Dutch Neck road now owned by Edith Eugley.
110 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs.
Il1 In possession of Dr. Benj. Kinsell, Med. Arts Bldg., Dallas, Tex.
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Of the second generation, John Friedrich joined the Moravi- ans and moved to North Carolina in 1770, where he died in 1816.112 John Bernhard was a soldier in the French and Indian War, took part in the second campaign against Louisburg, and was possibly at Quebec. In 1772 he, too, migrated to North Carolina, but re- turned the next year and settled by the Duck Puddle Pond in Nobleborough on the farm now owned by Raymond Piercy. The Kinsell farms were all on the west side of the river and hence were repurchased of the Pemaquid heirs in 1764. John's was redeemed for £15 16s. 10d .; 113 Friedrich's for £10 16s. 8d .; 114 and Bernhard's for £6 15s.115 The name Kinsel is now extinct in Waldoboro, but there are still those in the town who bear the blood of this family in their veins. Its known descendants in other sections are Doctor Benjamin Kinsell of Dallas, Texas, and Judge Dudley Kinsell of the Superior Court, Alameda County, California.
CLINE or KLINE. This has been anglicized from the German, Klein. The first Cline at Broad Bay was Christian, who came in the mi- gration of 1753 from Nenderoth in the Province of Dietz, Ger- many. A son, George, was a captive in Canada during the French and Indian War. He eventually received land on the west side of the river, Lot No. 19 below Medomak Falls, which he repurchased of the Pemaquid heirs in 1763 for £12 17s. 24d.116 This same son was a British sympathizer in the Revolution, in consequence of which his estate was appraised and confiscated in 1781.117 Chris- tian Cline died in 1783, leaving an estate appraised at £65 17s. Be- sides the son George the will mentions a wife, Elizabeth, a son, John, and a daughter, Elizabeth.118 Some members of the family took up land in East Waldoborough when that portion of the town was settled, and were still in that section fifty years ago; but the name has now become extinct in this community.
CLOUSE or CLAUS. This has been anglicized from the German, Klaus. The first Clouses at Broad Bay were most probably Cor- nelius and his wife Anna Elizabeth, born in Germany in 1717 and died at Waldoborough in 1805. She was buried in the Lutheran Cemetery. Cornelius settled on the west side of the river in the general area of the Meetinghouse Cove and was living there in 1763 when he was compelled to repurchase Lot No. 31 of the Pemaquid heirs for £13 6s. 8d.119 He died in 1775 and was prob- ably buried in the old cemetery at "the Cove." He left an estate
112Morav. Archives (Winston-Salem, N. C.).
113Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 4, 149.
114Ibid., p. 164. 115 Ibid., p. 166. 116Ibid., Bk. 7, p. 194. 117 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs. 118 Ibid.
11ª Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 9, p. 199.
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valued at £106 19s. 101/2d., and a minor daughter who for some unknown reason was placed under the guardianship of Captain Peter Hilt.120 Miller mentions a George Clouse as being at Broad Bay in 1760. This may have been a son and the same listed as the head of a family in the census of 1790. The Clouses are represented today by only one family bearing their name.
KOEHLER. This name is an uncertain one, but a Heinrich Koehler was apparently an early settler, an adult in 1763, when he repur- chased his Lot No. 39 on the Dutch Neck of the Pemaquid heirs for £9 6s. 8d.121 The fact that he was a bricklayer is strongly sug- gestive of a trade learned in the Old World. The spelling is prob- ably a variant for Kaler, and he may have been a son or a brother of the immigrant, Johannes, and possibly is the Henry Kaler who died in 1790.
COMERY. Comror, Cumerer, Comerer, are also anglicized forms of the German, Kommerich. Only a few facts in reference to this family have survived. The original immigrant, Joseph, came in one of the later migrations and seems to have lived in the Upper South Waldoborough area between the Will Ewell and Curry places.122 Joseph Comery died prior to 1789, but was living in 1777, when he served as one of the three hog reeves of the town. There is but one Comery listed in the census of 1790, Joseph, Jr., whose death occurred in 1830.123 This family has never been a numerous one, and Mrs. Jennie Comery Redlon, now residing in Waldoboro, is the only living descendant in the town who has borne the name of this family.
KRAUS. Not an original settler, Jacob Kraus (1752-1832), came to Waldoborough during or after the Revolution. He was a Hes- sian and settled in East Waldoborough on an eighty-six-acre lot which he mortgaged to William Thompson, January 7, 1738.124 Kraus married Hannah Elwell and ultimately moved to Warren, residing there until his death at the age of eighty.125
CREAMER. Also used as Kremer, Cremer, Cramer, possibly Cram- mer, anglicized from the German, Krämer. This has been one of the most numerous families of the town. Unfortunately it has re- tained little in the way of records that would cast an entirely clear light on the first generation. Hence I am compelled to resort to
120 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs.
121 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 4, p. 86. 122 Ibid., Bk. 50, p. 141.
123Comery Bible (English) 1816, in possession of Samuel G. Goodhue, 242 Asbury St., S. Hamilton, Mass.
124Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 40, p. 166.
123 Eaton, Annals of Warren, 2nd ed., p. 581.
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reasonable hypothesis. There seems to have been two Creamer brothers, Peter (1726-1822) and Georg, who came to Boston in the migration of 1751 or 1752. Here, as was the case with a num- ber of families, the brothers separated, Peter remaining in Boston and Georg taking land under Waldo at Broad Bay. He early located on Lot No. 17, containing ninety-three acres, below the Medomak Falls, perhaps the old Rodney Creamer farm. This he was compelled to redeem of the Pemaquid heirs in 1753, for £24 6s. 8d., a figure which shows it to have been one of the most valu- able pieces of real estate in the colony.126 Peter prospered some- what in business, then fearful of disturbances in Boston in the early days of the Revolution, sold his business, converted all his wealth into gold and came to Waldoborough. He acquired land on the east side of the river above Winslow's Mills, totalling about four hundred and fifty acres, and embracing the farm occupied by the late Joseph Jones.127 Peter buried his gold somewhere on this farm, according to tradition, sometime thereafter became slightly de- ranged, and in consequence was never able to remember where he had buried his money. To this day it has never been recovered. George Creamer died circa 1786.128 There were a number of sons of the two brothers now indistinguishable in the matter of parent- age: Jacob, 1750; Christopher, 1761-1827; Charles, 1761-1851; John, 1762-1842; Frederick, 1767-1849; a second Jacob, 1769-1849, and a Henry Cremer who was elected a fence viewer in 1773. The census of 1790 lists Charles, Christopher, Frederick, Jacob, John, and Peter as heads of families. The descendants of this family must be listed in the thousands, and there are many of this name still liv- ing in Waldoboro.
KROEHN. Peter Kroehn was the immigrant bearing the name at Broad Bay. He was born March 22, 1772, at Eicfeld in the County of Castell (Kassel), Franconia, Germany, and from his father learned the trade of a cooper. He was reared as a Lutheran and served his time as a cavalryman in the army of the Emperor. On September 23, 1749, he married Elizabeth Fischer, from which union there were eight children. The family migrated to Broad Bay in 1753. In 1757-1758 he took part in the expeditions into Can- ada where he sustained severe injuries, in consequence of which he was discharged from the service. He joined his family in Boston, where it had taken refuge during the war. Returning to Broad Bay afterward, he became one of the converts of the Moravian, George Soelle, and joined the migration to North Carolina in the autumn of 1769. There he was one of the original settlers of Friedland
126Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 4, p. 163. 127 Ibid., Bk. 13, p. 259.
128 Ibid., Bk. 47, p. 119.
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and there he died on November 4, 1798, having survived his wife, Elizabeth, by twenty-two years. Three of his children and nine- teen grandchildren survived him.120 With the departure of this family from Broad Bay the name became extinct in the settlement.
KUBLER. This has also been anglicized to Kubel from the German, Kuebler. David and his wife Margaret were the first of this name at Broad Bay. Neither their home in Germany nor the time of their migration to this country are known, but a Michael Kuebler of Dertingen, Germany, came to Boston in 1751. He may have been a brother of David and if so the latter could be identified with the migration from Boston to Broad Bay in 1752. David affixed his name to the Schaeffer Petition of June 14, 1767. In 1770 this family migrated to North Carolina in the group under Soelle's leadership. Though it remained friendly to the Moravian Church, it never joined its membership.130 There are no known descendants of this family now in Waldoboro.
KUHN. This is also variously anglicized to Kuehn, Kuehne, Keene, Cone, from the German, Kuhn. The name of the immigrant Kuhn at Broad Bay is uncertain. Miller lists a George Kuhn as being in the colony in 1760, but does not support the statement with evi- dence.131 A young man by the name of Herman Kuhn appears to have been in residence on the east side in 1757 as a neighbor of John Henry Demuth. A Paul Cone signed the Schaeffer Petition of 1767 and prior to this time had redeemed his farm, Lot No. 17 below Medomak Falls on the west side, for £10 13s. 4d., of the Pemaquid heirs. This conveyance of title speaks of Paul Kuhn, "Tanner,"132 which suggests that he was the original immigrant since he would have hardly learned such a trade on this side of the water. This could not have been the Paul Kuhn (1751-1835) mentioned in the Ludwig Genealogy, but more likely was his son. Other sons may have been Herman, Jacob and Georg. This family has been a numerous one, and there are many in Waldoboro today bearing its name.
LABE. English variants are Laib, Leib. A Johann Labe is given by Miller as residing at Broad Bay in 1760. The existence of such a person finds confirmation in the fact that John Laib was a fence viewer in 1777 and a hog reeve in 1787. The wife of John Martin Reiser was a Labe and came with him from Saxony, possibly as early as 1740. It may be that John Labe, a younger brother of Mrs.
129 Morav. Archives (Winston-Salem, N. C.). 130 I bid. 131 Miller, History of Waldoboro.
132Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 4, p. 148.
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Reiser, came with this family to Broad Bay as a minor. His farm was located on the Thomas Hill ridge, the present Patrick Home- stead, from which he sold a strip about twenty rods wide to Charles Sampson in 1805.133 The family was never a large one, but the name has lingered in the town down to the present day.
LAGENAUER. Johannes Georg Lagenauer, an original immigrant, came to Broad Bay in 1753 from Königsbach in Baden Durlach, Germany; and with him came his wife, Sophia Salome (Kastner), a daughter of Willibaldus. There were three children born to this union. The father was drowned at Broad Bay on Christmas day, 1757. Two of the sons, Georg and Jacob, migrated to North Caro- lina following their mother who had married Friedrich Kinsel as her second husband. Juliana Rominger, a daughter of Philip, be- came Jacob Lagenauer's wife. She was born September 13, 1757, in Boston, where the family had taken refuge during the French and Indian War. In 1769 Juliana came back to Broad Bay to live with her sister, Elizabeth, wife of Johann Michael Seitz; migrated to North Carolina with this couple in 1770 and there became Jacob's wife on May 6, 1777.134 There is no record of the third child of Johann Georg, who apparently remained at Broad Bay.
LASH. This has been anglicized from the German, Lasch, Losch or Lorsch. The immigrant Lash at Broad Bay was Casimir, who was killed by the Indians near his own home in the last Indian war. He was apparently of French Huguenot extraction and probably came to Boston in the Crell migration of 1751 and then in 1752 to Broad Bay.135 He settled on the east bank of the river on Lot No. 16 embracing the land between the northern line of Harold Levensaler and the southern line of Raymond Jones. Lash was a signer of the Shirley Petition of 1754. Certain sons of the immi- grant were Asmus (Erasmus), John (1745-1825), Paul, and Jacob. The latter was murdered at Waldoborough on the evening of October 14, 1776, by Andrew Kinckalius, a cordwainer, who for his crime was sentenced to be burned in his left hand, to forfeit all his goods and chattels, and to suffer six months' imprisonment.136 In the census of 1790, Asmus, John, and Paul are listed as heads of families. A later descendant of this family, Willis W. Lash, mar- ried in 1889 the Countess Bertha Elizabeth Alexy of Hungary, who died in Boston, July 26, 1939.137 There are descendants bearing the Lash name still living in Waldoboro.
134 Lagenauer Memoir, Morav. Archs. (Winston-Salem, N. C.). 133I bid.
135 Bernard Fäy, Franco-Am. Rev., I, No. 3, pp. 276-283.
136 Allen, History of Dresden, p. 251.
137 Boston Herald, July 27, 1939.
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LAUER. Anglicized forms of this name are Lowery, Lowry. Jacob Lauer, a farmer, and his brother, Anders, came to Broad Bay in 1752 from Langensteinbach, Baden Durlach, Germany. On April 19, 1753, he received from General Waldo Lot No. 6 on the east side of the river. This seems to have been the old Mary Howard Farm on Thomas Hill. On September 6, 1770, Jacob and his wife, Eva, sold Lots Nos. 6 and 7, containing two hundred acres, on the Thomas Hill ridge to Anthony Thomas.138 Shortly thereafter the two brothers migrated with their families to North Carolina. One brother, probably Anders, and his wife, Susanna, took one of the original Friedland lots. Eva, a daughter of Jacob, born at Broad Bay on September 9, 1754, married Georg Willard in 1771 and died in North Carolina on February 1, 1783, leaving "a distressed husband and six little children."139 Henry Lauer, a son of one of the brothers, seems to have remained at Broad Bay.140 At the pres- ent time there are none of this name and no blood kin known in the town.
LEHR. This has been variously anglicized to Leghr, Lahr, Leigher and Leaver. The data on this family, while scant, would seem to show that Peter and his wife, Katherine Brotman, were the first of this name at Broad Bay. He served as a soldier in the Revolution and lies buried at North Waldoboro, probably on the farm where ultimately he settled. Among Peter's children were John, Henry, Margaret, Elizabeth, Susan, Nancy, Martin, Mary, Kath- erine, Peter, Matthias, and Frederich, who settled in the main in Jefferson, Washington, and Union. While no descendants of this family are residing in Waldoboro at the present time, there are said to be many Leighrs residing in Liberty who are descend- ants of the first Peter.141
LEISSNER. Variants of this name are Lissner, Lessner, Leistner. The first Leissner at Broad Bay was Karl Christoph Gottfried, who was born at Magdeburg, Germany, in 1724 and educated in law at the University of Jena. He was practicing law in the Province of Dietz in 1753, when he became active in recruiting colonists in this region for General Waldo, and was there appointed by the Count of Nassau as a commissioner to accompany the migration from his domain to America in order to see that the emigrants were accorded fair treatment. Following his arrival at Broad Bay in 1753, he became General Waldo's agent in the colony. During the
128 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 8, p. 2.
139 Morav. Archives (Winston-Salem, N. C.).
1Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 13, p. 260.
141 Based on data furnished by Mrs. Chester Overlock, Thomaston, Me., g. g. grand- daughter of Peter Lehr.
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French and Indian War he held a commission as captain and com- manded a company of scouts raised locally for the protection of the settlement. At the close of the war he became the leading figure in the settlement, as adviser and magistrate; and according to the Moravian missionary, Georg Soelle, his word was the unwritten law of the settlement.142 His farm, acquired from John Ulmer, Sr., was the present Jonas Koskela place; and his cabin near the shore was in 1760 the largest private residence at Broad Bay. He was also the wealthiest citizen. Charles Leissner died young, probably of pneumonia, on January 9, 1769. He lies buried under the spread- ing shade of an oak on a little point which juts out into the Medo- mak not far from the site of his cabin. His stone bears the follow- ing inscription:
"Here lies buried the body of Charles Christopher Godfrey Leissner, Esq., who died Jan. 9, 1769. Aged 45 years.
The wide mouthed grave proclaims around, Attend Ye mortals to the sound. Now is the time for Death, prepare. Work, wisdom, nor Design is there.
The stone is broken off diagonally at the base. According to Parker Feyler,143 two local vandals, Ed Tarr and Ed McCain, used the stone many years ago as a rifle target and in this way broke it off near the base. The top of the stone lay for decades under a deep layer of humus. On August 26, 1938, Russell T. Cooney and I by virtue of sounding operations brought it to light and copied the inscription.
By his will Charles Leissner left the very considerable estate of £3433 16s. 1d., old tenor, which went to his widow, Mary.144 From the available evidence it is believed that Leissner left two children, a son George, born at Broad Bay in 1758, and a daughter, Elizabeth, who married Cornelius Seider.145 On his father's death George for some reason was apprenticed to a tanner in Boston. With the outbreak of the Revolution he enlisted in 1775 in a Mas- sachusetts regiment and served through the entire war. At its conclusion he returned to Waldoborough and married Ruth, a daughter of Jabez Cole, and lived and cobbled for a number of years in the 1790's in a part of Cole's house. Later he purchased land on the Bremen road, where he built himself a small house, the old cellar of which is still visible just east of the old Isaac Waltz Homestead. In this house he practiced the trade of a cobbler; and here he lived with his wife, Ruth (1765-1828), and reared a large
142 Data based on Dicry of Georg Soelle, 1760, Morav. Archives (Bethlehem, Pa.). 143Oral narrative. 14Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs.
145 Little, Genealogy of Maine Families.
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family of children, including Caleb, William, Charles, Ruth, who married Rufus Benner, and Polly from whom the Damariscotta Lessners are descended. Caleb inherited the farm on his father's death and built the house now standing on it.146 The Leissners are now scattered, and the descendants of Charles are living in many different states. There are still blood kin of the Leissners in Wal- doboro, but none who bear the name.
LEVENSALER. The first Levensaler at Broad Bay was John Adam, a tailor by trade, who reached here most probably in the migration of 1753. To the town warrant of March 4, 1776, he affixed his name as Johan Adam Löwen-Zölner, 3rd Selectman. This name in German means toll or taxgatherer at Löwen. There is such a town located near Breslau in Silesia, from which ancestors of the family may have migrated into the Rhine country. John Adam's wife, Maria Eleanora (1732-1798), lies buried in the Lutheran Ceme- tery. This lone grave bears out the tradition that her husband died and was buried in Boston. The family Bible, Nüremburg 1765, in possession of Atwood Levensaler, lists the following children born to this couple: Christina, born August 4, 1755; Maria, November 17, 1761; Katerina, July 8, 1764; Anna Margaretha, September 30, 1766; John Jacob, November 8, 1768; Elizabeth, July 1, 1769 (mar- ried Andrew Hoffses); Georg, April 15, 1772; Adam, April 15, 1772 (married Mary Turner, daughter of Cornelius and Mical Sylvester Turner); John, January 30, 1775, and Peter, born April 16, 1778, and died in 1863.147 After the last Indian war John Adam seems to have settled on the old Elias Hall farm, next north of the railroad station.148 This family has been a large one and there are numerous descendants of the name living in the town today.
LIGHT. This has been anglicized from the German, Leicht or Licht. Johann Georg, a wheelwright, seems to have been the first of his name at Broad Bay whither he came in the early 1750's. He settled on the west side of the river on Lot No. 14, below Medomak Falls, a lot he was compelled to repurchase of the Pemaquid heirs in 1763 for £9 3s. 4d. At the same time his son, Georg, Jr., redeemed Lot No. 7, below the Medomak Falls, for £4 18s. 4d.149 This son died in 1786, leaving an estate valued at £39 11s. A probable second son was Peter, who at the time of the Revolution was running the ferry from Merle Castner's rock on the east bank of the river, to the west bank, where the boathouse of Thomas Creamer stood in re-
146Based on oral narrative of Alice Waltz Morse, and on papers in her possession. 147 Atwood Levensaler, 8012 School St., Concord, N. H. 148 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 36, p. 239. 149 Ibid., Bk. 4, pp. 88-89.
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cent times. An Adam Light, possibly of the third generation, for- merly owned the Andrew Storer place, and occupied on it a smaller house near the well, just northwest of the Storer home now owned by Ralph Hoffses.150 The Lights have been rather a numerous family and there are still descendants of this name living in Waldo- boro.
LONG or LANG. Both forms are anglicized from the German, Lange. Heinrich was one of the little-known schoolmasters of Old Broad Bay, who probably came to this place in the migration of 1752, and has left a very scant record indeed. He signed the Schaeffer Petition of 1767, at which time he was living on the west side of the Upper Medomak on a five-acre lot of "fenced and improved land."151 It is probable that Schoolmaster Lange did not have a long life, since nothing further in the settlement is known of him.
LUDWIG. The immigrant Ludwig was John Joseph, born in 1699 at Nenderoth, Province of Dietz, Germany. Nenderoth is a little village high in the Taunus Mountains at the source of the river Ems, between Königstein and Heftrich. John Joseph left Germany in 1753 with his wife, Katharina Klein, his two sons, John Jacob (1730-1826) and Joseph Henry (1740-1883), and his daughter, Katharine Elizabeth (1735-1824). The father died on the voyage to England and was buried on the Isle of Cowes, and the rest of the family came on to Broad Bay, arriving in September. Frau Ludwig survived her husband by a number of years and on her death was buried in the churchyard at Meetinghouse Cove. Jacob married Margaretha Hilt in 1755152 and was allotted Lot No. 48 on the lower end of Dutch Neck, containing thirty acres.153 He was energetic and aggressive and in the fullness of time became one of the few outstanding men among the original German settlers. Limited in his education, Ludwig possessed a degree of native intelligence that thrust him into prominence in the little commu- nity, led him to acquire ease in English speech and to function as the factotum for his slower and cruder brethren in an alien civili- zation. He participated in the campaigns in Canada and in the oper- ations around Crown Point and Ticonderoga. He was a justice of the peace, road surveyor, town clerk, selectman, a captain in the expedition sent to Machias in 1776 and the first representative of the Waldoborough district in the General Court of Massachusetts. In 1790 Jacob Ludwig acquired of the Peter Crammer and Philip Schumann heirs, the old Ludwig Homestead of one hundred and
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