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SARGERS. Isaac of this name was the original immigrant at Broad Bay, and it was he who painted the pulpit of the old Lutheran Church at Meetinghouse Cove. The children of this family mar- ried into other Broad Bay families, and occasional reference to this name occurs in the town and county records. The blood kin are still living in the town, but the name has been extinct for more than a century.
SCHAEFFER. "Doctor" John Martin Schaeffer came to Broad Bay in 1762 as the second Lutheran preacher in the colony, though he was neither a doctor nor an ordained minister as was his prede- cessor. In fact, he was an elaborate charlatan who took the fullest advantage of the hunger after righteousness characteristic of our early forebears. After the death of Charles Leissner in 1769, he
100 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 15, p. 166.
191 Memoir, Morav. Archives (Winston-Salem, N. C.). 102Dr. Charles Rominger, Moravian College, Bethlehem, Pa.
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acquired the old Parker Feyler farm now owned by Jonas Koskela. His life came to its colorful end in the town of Warren in 1794. "Doctor" Schaeffer had no male descendants, but one of his daugh- ters, Elizabeth, married Johann Gross in 1789, and the male descendants of this union assumed the name of Sheppard or Shep- herd (anglicized form for Schaeffer). Through them the name was perpetuated in Waldoborough for several generations. The Robinson map of 1815 shows a lot of land between the old card- ing mill and the upper falls occupied by John Shepherd. During the 1880's Washington C. Shepherd, a descendant of John Martin, was living near Hoadlyville, Eau Claire County, Wisconsin. There were also male descendants at that time in Belfast, Maine; and a Mr. Arthur L. Cunningham of Newbury, Massachusetts, a de- scendant of Schaeffer, was a visitor to the town in 1949.
SCHENCK. The immigrant Schenck at Broad Bay was Andreas or Andrew. He was born in 1726 in the old Duchy of Franconia in Germany.193 The fact that he did not come to these parts on reach- ing America furnishes some warrant for the belief that he was in the migration that came to Boston in 1751 or 1752. Like others in these migrations he came to Broad Bay somewhat later, possibly at the close of the French and Indian War. In 1769 he acquired the old lot of Captain Lane's in the Slaigo district, embracing "Schenck's Point" and extending around the border of the bay to the Slaigo, or as now known, the Gay Brook.194 He was a tanner by trade and had a large tannery on the brook at the foot of Thomas' Hill.195 In his time he was one of the most enterprising men in the German element in the colony. On his death on Feb- ruary 18, 1799, he left an estate appraised at $4014.61, a good bit of wealth in these early days.196 Surviving Andrew Schenck was his wife, Sarah, a daughter, "Sofiah" (m. John Fitzgerald), a daugh- ter Katherine (m .-- Cole), a son, James (1766-1838) and a son, George, died January 24, 1786, at the age of thirty-two, leaving the following children: James, John, Andrew, Mary, Christina and Lucy. The name of Schenck has long been extinct in Waldobor- ough, although there are a number of descendants bearing other family names, which include Mrs. Stuart Hemingway, and the children of Carroll and Russell Cooney.
SCHMIDT. Little is known of this family at Broad Bay. There were in the migration of 1742 either two brothers or a father and son of this name. The life of one came to a tragic end in 1749 at the
193Headstone, Slaigo Cem .. Waldoboro, Me. 194Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 7, p. 16. 195 Eaton, Annals of Warren, 2nd ed., p. 148. 196 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs.
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close of the War of the Spanish Succession. He had married the widow of either Dennis or Patrick Cannaugh and apparently had taken up residence on his wife's farm near Farnsworth Point. Dur- ing the war he and his family took refuge in Burton's blockhouse at Cushing. On their return home in 1749 the family was trailed by Indians who killed both him and his wife in their cabin. His stepson Peter Cavanaugh, who took refuge in the cellar, was not molested.197
John Martin Schmidt, a son or brother of the above, was likewise of the immigration of 1742. On October 25, 1752, Samuel Waldo conveyed to this John Martin by deed Lot No. 10, the present Merle Castner farm, on condition that he "build a cabin 18 feet square and subdue four acres of land annually" and "pay a rental, he and his heirs, of one peppercorn every September 29th forever." John Martin apparently took refuge in the Boston area during the French and Indian War and remained there perma- nently, for on June 16, 1764, as residents of Dedham, Massachu- setts, he and his wife, Mary Catharina, conveyed, for £53 6s. 8d., this lot containing one hundred acres to John Neubert (New- bert).198
SCHNEIDER. This name has been variously anglicized as Sniber, Sni- der and Snyder. The immigrant Schneider, Melchior by name, was born on April 23, 1717, in Baden Durlach and was reared as a Lutheran. In 1742 he migrated to Broad Bay and on the journey thither was united in marriage to Jacobina Doerfler. This wed- ding took place on the ship Lydia, in midocean, and was doubtless performed by the Reverend Doctor Philip Gottfried Kast. On reaching Broad Bay Schneider seems to have selected, or to have been originally allotted, Lot No. 12 on the east side, which is the old Dexter Feyler farm, now occupied by Mrs. Velma Scott. In the 1760's he became a member of the Moravian congregation at Broad Bay; and in 1770 he moved with his family of twelve to North Carolina and settled at Friedland. At the time of his migra- tion he seems to have been in residence on Lot No. 8 (second numbering, east side), the farm now owned by the heirs of George W. Simmons. At that time this farm of one hundred acres had a forty-rod frontage on the "Slaes Brook, so called." This he sold in 1770 to Anthony Thomas of Marshfield, Massachusetts.199 Schneider died in North Carolina on June 17, 1790, of tubercu- losis, the disease of which so many of the early Broad Bayers were victims. Schneider left a widow and thirteen children. At the time of his death two sons, one of whom was Cornelius, and a daughter
197Colls., Me. Hist. Soc., VII, 326-327.
198Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 8, p. 27.
199 Deed, Malachi Snider to Anthony Thomas, Sept. 6, 1770, Lincoln Co. Deeds.
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were living in New England. He was survived by thirty grand- children.200 This name has become extinct in Waldoboro al- though it is not improbable that there are still descendants living in this community.
SCHÖNEMANN. A late comer to Waldoborough and probably a Hessian who settled in East Waldoborough, Christian Schöne- mann, on October 25, 1786, purchased the farm just north of the Levi Russell place in East Waldoborough of John Prior, for £45.201 The fact that he was a Catholic provides an indication of the extent to which tolerance had advanced at this time.
SCHUMACHER. The immigrant Schumacher was Georg Adam, who came to Broad Bay from Würtemberg (year of migration un- known), and settled on the farm now owned by Andrew Cur- rie.202 His wife, either in passage across the ocean, or a little later, in the colony, died, leaving him with five children. In colonial times no man with a family could remain unmarried and cope with frontier destiny. Accordingly in 1765 Georg Adam married the widow Wohlfahrt. In the fall of 1769 they migrated to Wachovia in North Carolina with five other families. They were shipwrecked in transit on the Virginia coast and lost the greater part of their belongings. Eventually they settled about one and one half miles north of Salem. Schumacher never joined the Moravian Church, but remained friendly to it to the end of his life. He died on Janu- ary 28, 1784, and was buried on his farm.203
SCHURZ. This has been anglicized to Shotes. John Schurz was liv- ing on the old Moses Burkett farm in 1752. A deed of this date in which Samuel Waldo conveyed to John Ulmer, Jr., Lot No. 5 (the James Castner farm) describes it as "lying between Capt. John Ulmer's Lott [the Parker Feyler farm] and John Shotes."204 Schurz in all probability was of the migration of 1742. He dis- appeared early in Broad Bay history, migrating to other parts or possibly losing his life in the French and Indian War.
SCHWARTZ. This has been variously spelled as Schwarz, Swatz and finally anglicized to its English equivalent of Black. The name of the immigrant Schwartz at Broad Bay was probably Friedrich. He came as a young man in the migration of 1753 with his wife, Lucy Castner, a fact which would associate him with Königsbach
200 Data based on Schneider Memoir, Morav. Archives (Winston-Salem, N. C. ). 201 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 20, p. 75.
202Ibid., Bk. 7, p. 88.
203 Memoir, Morav. Archives (Winston-Salem, N. C.). 204Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 3, p. 168.
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in Baden Durlach. He seems to have settled on the east side of the river on Lot No. 18 next north of the old Demuth place now occu- pied by Henry Hilton.205 During the French and Indian War, he took refuge in Boston, but later served as a soldier in the Revolu- tion. A numerous progeny was the fruit of his marriage: Anna, later wife of Ludwig Castner, Peter (1757-1839),206 Katherine, Mary, Jacob, Friedrich, "Margrate," and Susannah. After the close of the Indian wars and the Revolution, this family started to con- centrate in the northeastern part of the town, and in time devel- oped a suburban area of its own known as "Blacktown." Fried- rich's will, drawn up June 16, 1777, was administered by his wife Lucy, on May 13, 1786, at which time his estate was appraised at £200 18s. 8d.207 All three sons appear as heads of families in the census of 1790, and in present-day Waldoboro there are numer- ous descendants bearing the name of Schwartz and Black. Both variations of name appear in old deeds and in town reports of the 1890's.208
SCHWEIER. This family was German, but not of the early settle- ments. Christian Schweier and his two sisters, Elizabeth and Mary, came from Germany to Canada and from there joined the German settlement in Waldoborough around 1820. They settled on the Joseph Damon farm. In 1823 Christian was married to Lucy Borne- mann. He was an active Lutheran and for a time was secretary of that Society. The sister, Elizabeth, married a Turner. The mother of Roy Weaver was a daughter of this union. The grandson, Roy Weaver, a caulker in the old shipbuilding days, was living in Wal- doboro in December 1939 at the age of eighty-eight. Later in his life Christian Schweier moved to a two-hundred-acre farm in South Norwich, Canada.209
SECHRIST. Variant anglicized forms of this are Secress, Seichrist. The immigrant of this name was Jacob, who reached Broad Bay in one of the later migrations. A son was killed by the Indians on Dutch Neck in the French and Indian War. According to Miller the immigrant left no descendants. This is clearly an error, as the name recurs in the old deeds which reach over into the early part of the nineteenth century. Old Jacob died probably in the 1780's. The town warrant of January 8, 1783, contained an article "to see if said town will take old father Sechrist's poor sarcomstances into consideration etc." In the meeting "it was voted that Mr. Sechrist
205I bid., Bk. 30, p. 92. 206 Ludwig Genealogy. 207 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs.
208Town Warrant, Art. XVI, Town Report, 1891.
200Oral narrative, Roy Weaver, August, 1932. Also letter of James Schweier, 4238 McClellan St., Detroit, Mich., to me, Feb. 26, 1940.
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affairs be left with the selectmen to do the best they can to seporte to said family in the said circumstances." Descendants of the im- migrant migrated over the years "to other parts," leaving none to carry on this name in the town.
SEIDERS. Variant spellings of this are Seider and Seiter. Conrad Seiders was in the migration of 1748 to Broad Bay, deflected from Philadelphia by Joseph Crell under the suasion of Samuel Waldo. With him from Frankfort am Main came his wife, Elizabeth, and his six-year-old son, Cornelius. He settled on the west side of the river just north of Eugley's Corner. The son, Cornelius, who mar- ried Elizabeth, a daughter of Charles C. G. Leissner, apparently owned land later in this district which he was compelled to redeem of the Pemaquid heirs in 1764 for £16 2s. 8d.210 This may have been the original family lot. The only stones left in the old Lu- theran Cemetery at Meetinghouse Cove are those of two members of this family.
The immigrant, Conrad, was one of the selectmen of the town in 1779. Among the sons of Cornelius, there seems to have been a Jacob (1768-1832), a Henry (1774-1839), and probably a Conrad. Certain descendants of Conrad Seiders have had distin- guished careers. A Reuben Seiders of the third generation became a Unitarian clergyman and married a wealthy Massachusetts woman, Susan Austin of Cambridge. He took her surname and lived in what is now the oldest house in that city, the Cooper- Austin house, which is now preserved by the Society for the Pre- servation of New England Antiquities. Especially noteworthy was George Melville Seiders, one of the able and distinguished lawyers of Maine. He was a farm boy, schoolteacher, Civil War soldier, lawyer, partner of Thomas B. Reed, State Representative, Senator and Attorney-General of Maine. He died in Portland on May 26, 1915. The descendants of Conrad Seider are today scattered throughout the nation. As early as the third generation, Ambrose and Edward, brothers of Reuben, migrated to Louisiana and Texas.211 The only descendant bearing the name now living in the town is Captain Leslie Seiders of South Waldoboro.
SHUMAN or SCHUMAN. These are anglicized forms of the German, Schuhmann. There is little of certainty known of the origin of this family at Broad Bay. The most probable assumption is that the immigrant was John Bernard, "weaver," who in 1772 bought of John Hilt a lot on the east side of the river north of the village for £5 6s. 8d.212 He was also a church warden of the town elected
210Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 4, p. 251.
211 Papers of George Melville Seiders, in possession of Mary A. Seiders, 45 Thomas St., Portland, Me.
212 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 8, p. 222.
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in 1774 and one of three men to make an inventory of the estate of Baltas Castner on September 19, 1774. Probable sons of the immigrant were Philip, one of the two first constables of the town elected in 1773,213 and listed as a family head in the census of 1790; John (1768-1850), and Charles, 174 -. 214 This family has been a large one with a goodly number of descendants in the present-day town bearing the Shuman name.
SIDELINGER. This is anglicized from the German, Seitlinger. Martin Sidelinger repurchased his farm, Lot No. 25 on the west side of the river, of the Pemaquid heirs subsequent to 1764 for £25 4s. 1d.215 This would indicate that he was one of the largest land- holders in the early colony, as it does that he was the first of this name at Broad Bay. He died in 1793. The heirs, according to his will, were his widow, Mary, the sons, Peter, George, Daniel (1753- 1845), and Charles; the daughters were the wives of Andrew Storer, Charles Brotmann (Brodman), and Jacob Rominger in North Carolina.216 In the census of 1790 Martin and his sons, Charles and Daniel, are listed as heads of families. There is a heavy infiltration of Sidelinger blood in Waldoboro families, and there are those bearing the name still living in the town.
SIDENSPARKER. This name is also anglicized as Seidenberger, Siden- spire from the German, Seitenberger. The immigrant of this name was probably Matthias, for the Moravian missionary, Georg Soelle, lists him and his wife Susanna as among his followers in 1764.217 Matthias died in 1786 leaving a widow, Susanna, and two sons, Matthias and Michael.218 The story is complicated, however, by the fact that the census of 1790 lists a Charles and a John as being family heads in that year. A possible answer is that Matthias and Michael were still under age and so would not be listed as family heads along with their older brothers. This family, once a numer- ous one, concentrated after the Indian wars in the eastern section of the town. Today, while there are many blood kin living in Waldoboro, the name has in the present generation become ex- tinct in the community.
SIDES. This is anglicized from the German, Seitz. The immigrant Sides was Lorenz, who in the Shirley Petition of May 13, 1754, affixed his mark in the place of his signature. He came to Broad Bay in 1742 from Eidesheim in Würtemberg, Germany, with his
213Records of the Clerk, Waldoborouglı. 214 Ludwig Genealogy. 215Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 9, p. 89. 216 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs.
217 Soelle, Kurze Bericht, etc., Morav. Archives (Bethlehem, Pa.). 218 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs.
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wife and children. His farm was Lot No. 8 on the east side of the river, and was the residence in more recent times of Captain Albion F. Stahl. In 1745 Lorenz Seitz enrolled in Waldo's regiment and participated in the capture of the great French fortress at Louis- burg. His death came in 1757 when he was ambushed and slain on his farm by Indians. Record is preserved of three of his children: Johann Michael, born in Eidesheim in 1736, who in 1761 married Phillipine Elizabeth Rominger, a probable daughter of Philip. This young couple came under Moravian influence and in conse- quence migrated to North Carolina and finally settled in Fried- land, where Johann died on January 3, 1817. He left forty-five grandchildren and six great-grandchildren. His wife Phillipine was the earliest known child born in the German colony at Broad Bay (September 29, 1743). She died in Friedland on June 11, 1820. A daughter of Lorenz Seitz, Katharina, born in Eidesheim, Ger- many, married Philip Christopher Vogler in 1746 at Louisburg, Cape Breton, and to this union there were born ten children. This couple migrated to North Carolina in 1770, but Katharina never reached the Promised Land. She was ill of yellow fever when they arrived at Wilmington, and "passed out of time as they landed at Cross Creek, in believing trust in the redemption through Jesus."219 The boy who was with his father and escaped the Indians at the time of his father's death was probably the youngest son, Lorenz, who is listed as a family head at Waldoborough in the census of 1790. The name of Sides, but not the blood kin, is now extinct in the town.
SILER. This derives possibly from the German, Seiler. This is a doubtful case. On June 21, 1765, John Martin, Jr., surveyed for a Mr. John Bernhard Siler a one-hundred-acre lot beginning on the west side about 30 poles up the river from the Mill Dam and ex- tending from a river frontage of 25 rods about 640 poles back into the country.220 Further than this Siler has left no record in Waldoborough history.
SMOUSE. Schmauss, Schmouse are English variations of the Ger- man, Schmaus. The origin of the Smouses at Broad Bay is uncer- tain. It is probable that they came to Boston in the migration of 1751 or 1752, for a George Smouse is listed among the glass work- ers in the Germantown works.221 With the failure of this enter- prise, he, as did others, may have joined relatives or old friends at Broad Bay circa 1760. On the other hand, some members of this family seem to have come to Broad Bay direct and prior to 1760,
219 Seitz and Vogler Memoirs, Morav. Archives (Winston-Salem, N. C.).
220 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 4, p. 139.
221"Petition of J. Palmer to Gov. Francis Bernard, Feb. 26, 1761," Mass. Archives.
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since a George Schmauss served in the St. George company dur- ing the French and Indian War.222 Smouse seems to have settled on the west side of the river on the present Winslow's Mills road on the farm now owned by George Holden. He was first buried in the old cemetery in the field across the road from the Holden home. At least it is known that he was living on this lot in the year 1765.223 The immigrant, George, whose remains were reburied in the Lutheran Cemetery in the 1930's was born in Germany in 1733 and died at Waldoborough in June 1810. His wife, Jane, was born in Germany in 1729 and died at Waldoborough in November 1808. This couple had a son, Captain George D. Smouse, and a grandson, George D. Smouse, III (1799-1880). Tradition records that "the old Smouse House" was built by Captain George in 1769 and that it was the first frame house in Waldoborough. This family in the second generation became prominent in the town, and George D. III became the first President of the Medo- mak National Bank when it was organized in 1836. He was also associated with his half-brother, Isaac Reed, and with Augustus Welt in the great shipbuilding firm of Reed, Welt & Company. There is no Smouse listed in the census of 1790, which is undoubt- edly an error or oversight on the part of the enumerator. Another son of the immigrant George, John by name, was of Tory lean- ings in the American Revolution. He is in consequence listed as "an absentee" in the Wiscasset Records under date of January 6, 1781, when his estate, valued at £103, was confiscated. The name Smouse has been extinct in the town for three generations.
SNOWDEAL. Anglicized variants of this name are Schnaudiehl, Schaudeal, Snowdel, Snowdeal, and Deal from the German, Schnaudel. William was the immigrant Schnaudel, and he reached Broad Bay in the migration of 1753. Family papers include a rec- ord of his discharge from the German Army in 1753 and a receipt from a toll bridge passed over while he was migrating on his way to the port of his departure for America.224 At the close of the last Indian war, the family moved into the northwestern part of the town and the cellar of the old Snowdeal Homestead can still be seen in the woods back of Lorenzo Achorn's house at Orff's Cor- ner, along with a number of others marking the route first followed by the Jefferson road. This family name has been extinct in the town for several generations, but it is still borne by descendants in Camden, Thomaston, Rockland, and Rockport.
222Eaton, Annals of Warren. 223Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 46, p. 66.
224 In possession of Miss Enah Orff, 40 Yale St., Lawrence, Mass. Miss Orff's great- grandmother was a Snowdeal.
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SOELLE. This name has been anglicized to Cilley. Georg Soelle, the Moravian missionary of Broad Bay, was born on November 6, 1709, on the Island Erroe in Denmark. From youth he was ob- sessed with a sense of sin, and his strivings to attain a personal re- lationship with the Christ were characterized by the emotional disturbances and the extreme sentimentality common to the pe- riod of which the Moravian Church is no longer proud. In 1741 he was, on the completion of his education, ordained as a Lutheran preacher, but it was not until 1742 that he found religious equilib- rium through contact with those of the Moravian faith. In 1744 he joined the Unitas Fratrum at Marienborn, Germany; and in 1753, responding to an inner call, he came to America. He arrived at Bethlehem, Pennsylvania, on September 14 of that year and be- came an itinerant preacher of the Moravian Church, preaching at Oly, Lynn, Yorktown, and Philadelphia. In 1760 in company with a fellow missionary, Samuel Herr, he journeyed through New England and as far north as Broad Bay. He returned to the latter settlement in 1762 and remained there for eight years as the head of the Moravian mission. In 1770 he joined the Moravian migra- tion from Broad Bay to Wachovia, North Carolina. From this point he continued his wandering and preaching until 1773. On May 4 of that year "he passed gently into the arms of Jesus." He lies buried in the Moravian churchyard at Winston-Salem.225 He left no descendants.
STAHL. This family name has successfully held to its original Ger- man form with only occasional English variations such as Stole and Stall. The origin of the family at Broad Bay, however, is at- tended by some uncertainty. Miller lists a John Stahl in the colony in 1760. There is considerable reason for believing that John Stahl and his family came to Boston on the ship St. Andrew in 1752 in Joseph Crell's second migration; that he was a skilled glass blower; that he was either indentured or was hired to work at the new glass factory in Germantown (Braintree); that with the complete failure of the enterprise he migrated with others to the Broad Bay settlement circa 1760226 and took up land on Dutch Neck, Lot No. 47, which his son Henry, a tailor, repurchased of the Pemaquid heirs in 1763.227 Probable children of John were Henry (1737- 1827), Philip (1743-1830),228 and Jane who became the wife of Frank Miller, Jr.229 John, Jr., a son of Henry, was the largest land- holder on Dutch Neck at the turn of the century and was one of the incorporators of the German Protestant Society. The family
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