Moravian Lives

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      Philip Christopher Vogler, who was the ances-
tor of all the Vogler families in North Carolina, and
the Vogler families in Maine, was born at Gundelsheim,
in the Palatenate, Germany, in 1725.
      His parents were Lutherans, and brought up their 
son in that persuasion. He learned the tailor's trade 
when young, and also worked on a farm.
      In 1742, when he was 17 years of age, he emigrated
with his parents to America. An unscrupulous German of 
rank, General Waldo, who had obtained the right to a large
tract of land in the Southern part of Maine, West of Pen-
obscot Bay, in the year mentioned, induced 20 or 30 Ger-
man families to leave their Fatherland, brave the perils
of an ocean voyage, and build up new homes in the wilder-
ness of Maine. He made fair promises; each family was
to recieve 100 acres of land and be supported for six 
months. It is not surprising that the peasantry of Ger-
many, oppressed by long continuous wars, were easily in-
duced to embrace such an opportunity, apparently brilliant,
to improve their condition.
      But their bright dreams soon faded, after the ves-
sel, in which they came had sailed away, and they were left
face to face with the stern realities of their condition.
It was in the fall of the year, therefore the severe winter
of that climate was close upon them; they were without shelter,
scantly supplied with provisions, and surrounded by savage foes.
Their neighbors, the nearest white ones, were sixteen miles 
away, and not a path to guide them. Some of them died of cold
and hunger.