Stahl’s muster roll of 1760 a litany of German names

Surely one of the most fascinating chapters in Jasper Stahl’s 1956 “History of Old Broad Bay and Waldoboro” is “The Muster Roll of 1760.”

So many of the entries were for pioneers of that time, and such a high percentage were of German origin.

Stahl himself called the chapter “a chore. It covers the genealogical problem of interest to me, to wit, those sturdy souls of the first generation who gave up their homes in the Old World, made the long trek across the sea, hacked this town out of a wilderness, and for a generation imparted to their new home the flavorsome new quality of an ancient feudal culture.”

The chapter offers biographical information on many of those listed in the muster roll, many of the names which can be found throughout Maine as well as along the coast:

Matthas Achorn or Eichorn, Henry Air, Michael Anton, Bauzer, Daniel Beckler, Henry Benner, John G. Bornemann, Gottfried Bornheimer, John Peter Broest, Peter Brothe, Melchior Brotmann, John Jacob Burckhard, Bernard Chab, John David, Jacob Dies, Johannes Heinrich Demuth, Jacob Dickendorff, Paulus Dochtermann, Doerfler, George Anton Dolheim, Conrad Edel, Franz Eisele, Johan Georg Eucht, Bernhardt Eugley or Uekler, Daniel Feilhauer, Daniel Feiltreu, Joannes Genthner, Henry Getsinger, Peter Grothe, John Martin Gross, Johannes Haburg or Hamburg.

Hans George Hahn, John Handel, John Haupt, Joseph Haus, Charles Heavener or Huebner, John Heidenheim, Joachim Heiler, John Jacob Hein, Michael Heisler, Martin Heyer, John Hilt, John Walter Hoch, Matthias Hoffses, David Holzapfel, Gottfried Horn, William Icholar, Valentine Jung, Johannes Kohler, Willibaldus Castnus, Franz Keizer, Johannes Kesler, Johannes Kuentzel or Kinsel, Kline, Cornelius Klause, Joseph Comery or Kommerich, Peter and Georg Creamer or Kramer, Peter Kroehn.

David Kubler, George Kuhn, Johan Labe, Johannes Georg Lagenauer, Casimir Lash, Jacob and Anders Lauer, Peter Lehr, Karl Christoph Gottfried Leissner, John Adam Levensaler, Johann Georg Light, Heinrich Long or Lang, John Joseph Ludwig, John Martin Sr., Matthias Matchloffe, Hans Simon Mellen, Frank and Peter Miller or Muller, Georg Mink, Christopher Neuhaus, Christopher Newbert, Nikolaus Orff, Peter Prock or Procht, Joseph Ramrer, John Martin Reiser or Razor, Johann Georg Reid, John Refuse, Seiffarth Reisaus, Heinrich Reitter, Matthias Remily, George Roth or Rhodes, Philip Rinner.

David, Philip, Michael and Jacob Rominger; Isaac Sargers, John Martin Schaeffer, Andreas Schenck, John Martin Schmidt, Melchior Schneider, Christian Schonemann, Georg Adam Schumacher, John Schurz or Shotes, Friedrich Schwartz, Christian Schweier, Jacob Sechrist, Conrad Seiders, John Bernard Shuman, Martin Sidelinger, Matthias Sidensparker, Lorenz Sides or Seitz, John Bernhard Siler, George Smouse, William Schnaudel or Snowdeal, Georg Soelle or Cilley, John Stahl, Jacob Stein, John George Stilke, Georg Storer, Andreas Suchfort or Sukeforth, Jacob Lorenz Toziner, Conrad Treupel.

John and John Jacon Ulmer, Jacob Umberhine, Georg Vannah, Hans Georg Vogler, William Wagner, John and Peter Walck, Michael Wallis, John Christopher Wallizer, Johannes Petrus Walder, Jacob Waltz, John Weaver, Andrew Weller, John and Pleosus Welt, John Jacob Weyl, Andrew Willard, Friedrich Winchenbach, Johann Jacob Wohlfahrt, Christoph Wolsgrover, Sebastien Zuberbuhler.

I knew that Sukeforth had been Suchfort, but not that Snowdeal had been Schnaudel, or that Cilley had been Soelle.

The Penobscot County Genealogical Society will meet at 6 p.m. Wednesday, Oct. 20, in the Lecture Hall at Bangor Public Library, with V. Ann Files speaking on property deed research.

This will be an encore presentation of the session Ann presented at the Maine Genealogical Society annual conference last month. Land deeds can provide many clues and a host of valuable information for the genealogist.

Ann, a PCGS member, is uniquely qualified and able to blend her professional knowledge as a paralegal and former abstractor with her interest in genealogy. She is also a former museum teacher, interpreter and role player at Strawberry Banke Museum in Portsmouth, N.H.

The meeting also will be a celebration of the society’s second birthday.

I’ll be speaking on census records at 7 p.m. Monday, Oct. 25, at the Hampden Historical Society, Kinsley House, Main Road, Hampden.

The Daughters of Union Veterans will meet at 1:30 p.m. Sunday, Oct. 24, at the Abbot Town Hall.

Send genealogy queries to Family Ties, Bangor Daily News, P.O. Box 1329, Bangor, ME 04402; or send e-mail to familyti@bangordailynews.net.