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225 Soelle Memoir, Morav. Archives (Winston-Salem).
220 Pattee, History of Old Braintree and Quincy. 277 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 5, p. 161.
228 Ludwig Genealogy.
220 Miller Genealogy.
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was strongly Lutheran. The third generation John Stahl (1778- 1857), one of the strongest supporters of the church in its years of decline, was a shipmaster and shipbuilder on Dutch Neck in the 1840's. The old Stahl Homestead was located on the present Arthur Chute place. It was a large house, Cape Cod style, of one and one half stories, facing the road. When the old house was torn down, the more modern ell was left, and the present Chute home built from it.230 Captain John B. Stahl (1778-1857) was the last of the family to occupy it. In early days the Stahls were concentrated on Dutch Neck and in the northeastern part of the town, from whence they spread over into Warren. Philip of the second gen- eration settled on Stahl's Hill on July 4, 1797.231 This family has been a sizable one and is now scattered throughout the United States. There are still a goodly number bearing the name in the town in the present day.
STEIN. This has also been anglicized to Stain. Jacob Stein appears to have been the immigrant of this name at Broad Bay, the earliest reference to him being the repurchase of his farm on the west side of the river of the Pemaquid heirs around 1764, for £7 12s. The family has never been a large one, and until recently there was one family in the town bearing this name.
STILKE. Of this family little more can be said than that a John George Stilkey of Waldoborough died in 1789232 and that a son of the same name married Katharina Wagner on April 1, 1800.233
STORER. This is possibly anglicized from the German, Stoerer. Evi- dence on the first generation of this family in the town is highly confusing. The presence of Storers in the Braintree district would suggest that this family or families were in the Boston migrations of 1751 or 1752. In confirmation of this is the location on Dutch Neck of the original Storer lot. There may have been originally two or more brothers in this migration, or, what is more probable, a father and several sons. In this case, the immigrant Storer was Georg, a tailor, who lived at Broad Bay in the early 1750's on farm Lot No. 34 on Dutch Neck,234 and took refuge in Boston during the French and Indian War. He repurchased his farm of the Pemaquid heirs on September 21, 1763. He, along with Mat- thias, a son or brother, signed the Schaeffer Petition of June 14, 1767, and Georg witnessed the will of John Martin Schaeffer of
230 Letter, Linda Stahl Lord, dau. of Aaron Stahl, Dec. 27, 1938, in my possession. 231 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 40, p. 15.
232 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs.
233Clerk's Records, Vol. II, Waldoborough.
234Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 4, p. 82.
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August 6 of the same year.235 A son, Andrew, was born in Ger- many in 1742 and died in Warren in 1799. Other sons seem to have been Charles, who settled on Dutch Neck, and a Matthias who lived in the Slaigo district along with Andrew. Georg sold his lot on Dutch Neck to a Christian Storer on July 1, 1784.286 Andrew, Christian, and Matthias are listed as family heads in the census of 1790. All this is to mention only a few threads in the tangled skein. In the third generation the family became promi- nent in the town. William and Alfred were major shipbuilders and laid the foundations of sizable estates. Alfred's son, Leavitt, con- tinued in the family tradition and built, among other ships, the Governor Ames, reputed to be the first five-masted schooner on the Atlantic seaboard. Leavitt's son, Alfred, for many years the President of the Medomak National Bank, is engaged in business in the present-day town.
SUKEFORTH. This is the anglicized form of the German, Suchfort. This is not one of the older German families in the town. Andreas Suchfort, a Hessian, taken prisoner in the Saratoga campaign and confined in the Boston district, was paroled to Andrew Schenck and brought by him to Waldoborough, where he eventually set- tled. On January 20, 1783, he purchased the Merle Castner farm on which John Newbert was then living, for £200, but held it for only a short time;237 for on April 10, 1783, Newbert conveyed the farm to Church Nash and moved to North Waldoborough. Soon thereafter the Sukeforths settled in Washington, but in the present century have again returned to the town where there are three families in residence, one of which is that of Clyde Sukeforth, coach of the Brooklyn Dodgers.
TOZINER. This name is taken from a dubious spelling in the County Records. In an agreement effected on April 21, 1770, between John and Mary David the name of Jacob Lorenz Toziner in illegi- ble script is affixed as a witness.238
TREUPEL. Conrad was the name of the immigrant Treupel at Broad Bay. He was one of the signers of the petition to Governor Shirley of May 13, 1754, which would afford some ground for holding that he was of the migration of 1742. His farm was located on the east bank of the river. After 1754 he does not appear again in our history, a fact which suggests that he may have lost his life as a soldier in the French and Indian War.
235 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs.
236Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 17, p. 80. 237 Ibid., Bk. 16, p. 115.
238 Ibid., Bk. 8, p. 69.
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ULMER. The immigrants of this name were John Ulmer and his brother, John Jacob Ulmer, who came to Broad Bay in 1742 from Maulbronn in the Duchy of Würtemberg.239 John settled originally on Lot No. 4, now the farm of Jonas Koskela.240 His son, John, Jr., on becoming of age, was allotted the farm next north, Lot No. 5, the old James H. Castner farm.241 Jacob settled on Lot No. 15, the boundaries of which are identical with the present farm of Harold Levensaler, but extending westward to the river. John, Sr., was at Louisburg in 1745, and tradition has it that on the night of May 2nd he led the Broad Bayers in the successful attack on the arsenal northeast of the harbor which contained great stores of military and naval supplies.242 John Ulmer was a versatile individual with an eye always pealed for the main chance, and so it was that he sold his original lot to Charles C. G. Leissner and in 1765 acquired the property at the head of tide on the east bank of the river which ran from the first bridge in an easterly direction and included a substantial portion of the present village and of Main Street. This property he sold in 1794 to David Doane of Barnstable, Mass.243
Ulmer was by profession a schoolmaster and practiced his profession on a small scale in the early days. After Doctor Kast had abandoned the colony in 1743, Ulmer took over the office of preacher at Waldo's solicitation and in his pay. He was also the town's first known shipbuilder, having built in 1771 a brig of one hundred and fifty tons which was called the Yankee Hero.244
Jacob Ulmer moved to Marblehead during the French and Indian War, and his brother John found refuge with him there for a part of the struggle at least. In 1760 Jacob sold his Lot No. 15 and never returned to the settlement.245 After the sale of his prop- erties in the town in 1794, John Ulmer moved to Rockland. His large family of thirteen children has made the name of Ulmer a common one in the Penobscot area, but in present-day Waldo- boro there is no family left bearing this name.
UMBERHINE. Variant spellings are Umberhind, Unbehind, Unbe- hinde, from the German, Unbehend. The data on this family is scanty. A Jacob seems to have been the immigrant in the Broad Bay colony. His original home and the time of his migration are unknown. In 1764 he redeemed his farm on the west side of the river, Lot No. 18 below Medomak Falls, of the Pemaquid heirs for £12 8s.246 In 1776 he was a member of the Revolutionary Com-
239 John Ulmer's letter in possession of Mrs. J. E. Greeley, Dover, Maine. 240Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 3, p. 168. 241Ibid., Bk. 22, p. 207.
242 Rattermann, Der Deutsche Pionier, 66 Jahrgang.
243Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 32, p. 12.
244Joseph Ludwig, a contemporary, cited by Eaton in Annals of Warren, 2nd ed., p. 148. 245 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 7, p. 90 and Bk. 22, p. 207. 246 Ibid., Bk. 4, p. 169.
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mittee of Correspondence and Safety, and in 1783 he was one of those making an inventory of the estate of Christian Kline.247 Through error or oversight the name does not appear in the cen- sus of 1790, for descendants of this family bearing the name have been in residence in Waldoboro down to recent times.
VANNAH. This has been variously anglicized as Warner, Varner and Vannah from the German, Werner. The original representa- tives of this family at Broad Bay were two brothers who probably came to this area in 1753. The older of the two was Georg, who acquired the property at the Great Falls of the Medomak on its west bank. The lot was surveyed for him by John Martin on July 31, 1766, and the bounds were given as extending westward to the Kaler Pond. The gristmill was located on the present site of the old Medomak Flour Mill and "Werner's house was just south of the mill run."248 He died in 1794 bequeathing one third of the in- come from the mill to his wife, "Sadoney." To his sons-in-law, John Kinsell and Daniel Achorn, he left the gristmill and "other lands and properties."249 This will furnishes warrant for the in- ference that Georg had no sons. The other brother was probably Henry whose name appears in early real-estate transactions at Broad Bay,250 and it was he from whom those bearing the name of Vannah in this community are descended. The census of 1790 lists in addition to Georg, Andrew, Charles, John, John, Jr., all prob- able descendants of Henry, as heads of families. The omission of the name Henry would warrant the belief that he was no longer living at that time. I recall from boyhood days that a number of Werners were buried in the old Lutheran Cemetery on the shore of Merle Castner's farm. This family has been a large one and there are still numerous Vannahs living in present-day Waldo- boro.
VOGLER. This has also been anglicized to Fogilar, Foglar, Fogler from the German, Vogler. Hans Georg Vogler, along with his grown-up son, Philip Christopher, came to Broad Bay in 1742 from Gundelsheim in the Rhenish Palatinate.251 They arrived under a bonded indenture of £6 10s. 9d. each, payable to Sebastian Zuber- bühler on September 24, 1747.252 Philip was born April 7, 1725, was reared a Lutheran, and along with farming learned the trade of a tailor. This family settled on the east side of the river on Lot No. 9, the present Davis dairy farm.253 During the Fifth Indian
247 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs. 248 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 8, p. 83. 249 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs. 250Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 13, p. 253. 251Vogler Memoir, Morav. Records (Winston-Salem, N. C.). 252York Co. Reg. of Deeds (Alfred, Me.), Bk. 25, pp. 44-45. 253Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 7, p. 252.
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War Philip Christopher participated in the campaign against Louis- burg and remained there four years, marrying in 1746 Katharina Seitz, daughter of Lorenz Seitz. The family became early converts at Broad Bay of the Moravian missionary, Georg Soelle; and when the Moravian mission was built in 1762, it was erected on the shore of this farm.25+ Hans Georg seems to have "passed out of time" in the 1760's, for in 1770 Philip with his wife and children migrated to Friedland, North Carolina. Their eldest son, John, however, re- turned to Broad Bay prior to 1773 and continued the family line in the Waldoborough area. In 1788 he bought of Martin Razor, for £18, the old Fogler farm in East Waldoborough, now owned by Ivan Scott. This remained the family seat down to the death of the last Fogler in the town.255 Philip Christopher died at Bethania, North Carolina, August 20, 1790. He had in all twelve children, ten of these by his first marriage, and at his death twenty-seven grandchildren. The name of Fogler has now been extinct in the town for two generations, Charles of East Waldoboro being the last in the town to bear this name.
WAGNER. William was the immigrant of this name at Broad Bay, and he probably was of the migration of 1753. The earliest refer- ence to him comes in the conveyance of a lot "already held by him as a settler," which was an exchange of farms with Matthias Achorn, on September 21, 1761, involving a hundred-acre lot on the west bank of the river, somewhere between the lower and up- per falls.256 He and his wife, Katherina, were followers of the Mora- vian, Georg Soelle.257 The Wagners later in the century settled in the Orff's Corner area, where there is still a Wagner meadow near the bridge in that area which is still known as "the Wagner bridge." The family was never a large one; in the census of 1790 only two Wagners, William and his son, Andrew, are listed as family heads. The last of this family in the area is believed to have been Andrew, a town charge, who was buried November 18, 1890.258
WALCK. Also used as Walk, from the German, Walch. There is some uncertainty in reference to this family, but the first at Broad Bay was unquestionably John, and a brother or son, Peter. They came in the migration of 1751 or 1752 and took up land on Dutch Neck, where John, who was a potter, was compelled to redeem his Lot No. 52 on September 21, 1763, of the heirs of the Pema- quid proprietors.259 John died in 1789 leaving to his widow, Anna
254Jasper J. Stahl, "Diary of a Moravian Missionary at Broad Bay, Me.," N. E. Quarterly, Dec., 1939, p. 759.
255 Lincoln Čo. Deeds, Bk. 13, p. 44.
250Ibid., Bk. 7, p. 170.
257 Soelle, Ms., Kurze Bericht, etc., Morav. Archives (Bethlehem, Pa.). 258 Report of Town of Waldoborough, 1891.
20ºLincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 5, p. 162.
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Ebbet, an estate appraised at £55 9s. 8d.260 Peter died in 1795 leav- ing a widow, Jane. The census of 1790 throws some light on the second generation. Apart from Peter, there were still living in 1790 Charles, Christopher, Henry, and John, Jr., as family heads. The Robinson Map of 1815 shows Charles living on a farm of one hun- dred and twenty acres, the last but one on the tip end of the Neck, which seems to have been the original Walck farm. Christopher was in residence on a lot of seventy-five acres, lying between the farms of John Stahl and Charles Overlock. There are descendants of this family still residing in the town; but Almore, who died on Dutch Neck in the autumn of 1939, was the last in the town to bear the family name.
WALLIS. The original German spelling of this name is uncertain. The Waldo deed of October 25, 1752, conveying Lot No. 10 (the Merle Castner farm) to John Martin Schmidt states that this lot is bounded on the south by the farm of Philip Vogler and on the north by lot of Michael Wallis.261 The deed of Schmidt of June 16, 1764, conveying the present Castner farm to John Newbert shows the Wallis lot in the possession of Baltes Castner. These documents would identify Michael Wallis with the migration of 1742, and would show that in the intervening twelve years he had either abandoned the place, been killed in the Indian wars, or had sold his improved land and moved elsewhere.
WALLIZER. This has been variously spelled as Walleazor, Waliser, Wallis, and probably anglicized to Wallace. There is little definite data on this family. The most certain fact is that the immigrant at Broad Bay was "Doctor" John Christopher Wallizer, who, accord- ing to the Ludwig Genealogy262 was born in Germany in 1730 and died at Waldoborough in 1819. His family connections seem to show an especial penchant for widows, for the clerk's record of December 25, 1784, records the fact that "John Christopher Wal- lizer and ye widow, Getreout [Gertrude] Minken" were pub- lished on that date, and the Wiscasset records register a convey- ance of real estate in 1807 by "Rozina Wallizer, a widow of Georg Roth and wife of John C. Wallizer, surgeon." Where "Doctor" Wallizer came from or when he came to Broad Bay is unknown, and the problem of following his later descendants in the town is rendered confusing by the fact that the later anglicized form of the name cannot be differentiated from that of other Wallace fami- lies in the town.
260 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs. 261 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 8, p. 25. 262 Augusta, Me., 1866.
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WALTER. This is an anglicized form of the German, Walther or Walder. This family, though German, was not connected with the early migrations. Its founder was Johannes Petrus Walder, who was born in Braunschweig, Germany, in 1734 and died at Waldo- borough in 1830. A Hessian under Burgoyne at Saratoga, he was, on the collapse of this campaign, sent as a prisoner to Boston. Here he was paroled and made his way into "eastern parts" with Gen- eral Denny McCobb. According to tradition he was a well-edu- cated man, proficient in several languages. He settled in Waldo- borough and married Maria Woltzgruber, the half-sister of Con- rad Heyer, and became the progenitor of the Waldoborough Wal- ters. The Robinson Map of 1815 shows him occupying Lot No. 7 in the northeastern part of the town. Walter's cabin stood by the river and his one hundred and forty-three acres ran east from the upper Medomak to the western boundary of the Knox Patent. Ad- joining his lot on the north was Lot No. 6, the one hundred and twenty acre farm of his son, Peter; adjoining it on the south, Lot No. 8, the one hundred and nineteen acre farm of his son, Chris- tian, or, as is alleged by some, his brother. If so, Christian was prob- ably a Hessian soldier who joined his brother in the town at the close of the Revolution.
WALTZ or WALZ. This was variously corrupted in early times to Wolz, Woltz, Walts, Wulz and Wults. The origin of this family in Waldoborough contains some uncertainties. There may have been originally a father and several sons, or two or more brothers. The weight of evidence favors the first hypothesis. The immigrant Waltz was clearly Jacob, possibly John Jacob, although he signed his name simply as Jacob Waltz to the Shirley Petition of May 13, 1754.263 The fact that he was a signatory of this petition would associate him with one of the earlier migrations, probably that of 1742, certainly not later than that of 1748. An Andrew Waltz, a housewright and a possible son of Jacob, redeemed his farm, Lot No. 33 on Dutch Neck, of the Pemaquid heirs in 1763.264 This was clearly the hayward of 1773. His name also appears as a family head in the census of 1790. Another possible son of Jacob was Matthias, born in 1756 and died May 8, 1827, who lies buried in the East Waldoboro Cemetery. Jacob settled on the lower east side, possibly on the present Patrick Homestead. He died circa 1770, for on October 7, 1771, his widow, Mary Moners, remarried to John David, deeded her part of this land to Charles Samson, "our right being one third of said land, an interest which the said Mary has in said land by her late husband, Jacob Waltz of the
263Mass. Archives, XV A, 240-242.
264Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 7, p. 140.
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same place deceased."265 This family has been a large one and numerous descendants still bear its name in present-day Waldo- boro.
WEAVER. This has been variously corrupted as Wiebege, Wibiege and early anglicized to Weaver from the German, Weber. The question has been raised whether this family is of German or Eng- lish origin. Some of its older living members affirm their faith in the tradition that the Weavers were German. On the other hand, a very complete Weaver Genealogy states that John Weaver was of the sixth generation of Weavers in America, that he was born November 25, 1733, at East Greenwich, Rhode Island, and "is be- lieved to have settled in Waldoboro, Maine." A descendant of his brother, George, is said to have had records, not now preserved, which established this fact.266 This undocumented datum must be recorded as a tradition and not as a fact. On the other hand, Joseph Weaver, a blacksmith, was in early times in possession of Lot No. 37, on the west side of the river. This he redeemed of the Pemaquid proprietors in 1763, and two years later he and his wife, Magdalen, conveyed the same to John Heidenheim and to this document he affixed the name in badly written script of "Johen Jost," John Joseph.267 Later he moved to the lot known as "the old Weaver Homestead" between Grant's Quarry and the railroad track. In 1807 this farm was conveyed by Charles to John Weaver and in the deed is denominated as the lot "on which his father lived."268 John Weaver's known sons were John, born 1765, and Charles (1767-1863). John, Jr., married the daughter of Bernhard Kinsell (1762-1862). John, Sr., was prominent in the affairs of the town and was a member of its first Board of Selectmen. He died in 1790 leaving to his widow, Molly, an estate appraised at £51 18s. 3d.269 In the census of 1790 George Weaver, a probable son, is listed as a family head. There are descendants in the town today who bear the Weaver name.
WELLER. This is not a common name in Waldoborough history, but the family was certainly a part of the original Broad Bay set- tlement. The immigrant founder was Andrew who came here probably in 1753. Ten years later Andrew Weller, cordwainer, re- deemed his lot which was No. 8, below Medomak Falls on the west side, of the Pemaquid proprietors for £6 13s. 4d.270 The immigrant died relatively young, in 1770 or 1771; for on May 31, 1771,
205 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 7, p. 223.
266Lucius E. Weaver, Weaver Genealogy (Rochester, N. Y., 1928).
267 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 5, p. 166.
268 Ibid., Bk. 67, p. 11.
209 Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs.
270 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 7, p. 84.
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"George High [English equivalent of the German Hoch], of a place called Broad Bay," was appointed guardian "unto Lehn Weller, minor daughter of Andrew Weller," and on June 5, 1772, William Kahler (Kaler) of a place called Broad Bay was appointed guardian "unto John Weller, minor son of Andrew Weller, late of Broad Bay."271 Where the Wellers came from and what even- tually became of them are facts buried in obscurity. On April 26, 1784, George Clouse and Mary Weller272 were "published," and in 1791 John Weller married Sarah Burnheimer of Waldoborough. Thereafter the records furnish no further evidence of this family.
WELT. There are uncertainties connected with the first generation of the Welts at Broad Bay. According to the family tradition, there were two brothers named Welt273 who came to Broad Bay in 1748. At the close of the Indian wars they settled in the North Waldo- borough district. One of these brothers was John. During the Revo- lution he was enlisted in Captain Philip Ulmer's company and participated in the attack on the British at Castine. Induced by promises of land and money, he joined the British cause. In turn he deserted from them, was captured by the colonials, court-mar- tialled, and sentenced to receive "a thousand stripes save one." He died under the lash.274 One of his known sons was John William.
The second brother who came from Germany may have been Pleosus, who is the only Welt listed as the head of a family in the census of 1790. The Robinson Map of 1815 shows Lots Nos. 26, 27 and 28, in the northeastern section of the town, occupied by Charles, Matthias, and John Welt, sons of John and possibly of Pleosus. The family has been a numerous one, and there are de- scendants bearing the name in present-day Waldoboro. The most distinguished member of the family locally was Augustus Welt, a son of John William. He was one of the major shipbuilders in the Great Days, a selectman for successive terms, a represen- tative in the State Legislature, and a promoter and large stockholder in the Knox & Lincoln Railroad.
WEYL. John Jacob of Boston, laborer, for £36 paid by George Light, Sr., relinquished his claim to a tract of land, Lot No. 14, be- low Medomak Falls on the west side of the river, this lot being "the same as Light bought of Drowne." This transaction took place September 27, 1762.275 Weyl like "Air" apparently had left Broad Bay during the French and Indian War and never returned. He
271Patterson, Lincoln Co. Prob. Recs.
272Town Clerk's Records, Wa'doborough.
273Oral narrative, Mrs. Rose Welt Davis, g.d. of Augustus Welt, Rockland, Me. 274Data from Boston Public Library, investigated by Mrs. Frank Welt. 275 Lincoln Co. Deeds, Bk. 7, p. 185.
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was probably of the migration of 1753, since on April 2, 1754, Matthias Achorn who had taken up Lots Nos. 1 and 2 of Samuel Waldo, April 17, 1753, on the west bank, sold Lot No. 1 to John Jacob Weyl in 1754.276 To these documents are affixed the signa- tures of Jacob Weyl and his wife, Elizabeth.
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