Moravian Lives

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With the coming of spring they began to clear the land
for cultivation, but the tools they brought with them
from Germany were poorly adapted to their wants. In
1748 and in 1751 several more families joined them, and
in 1753, Waldo's son went to Germany and distributed cir-
culars offering the most flattering inducements, so that
sixty families arrived in September of that year. If
the sufferings of the first settlers was intense, a more
cruel fate awaited these. They were wholly unprovided for.
A few could find shelter among the earliest settlers; but
the greater number were put in a large shed erected for
that purpose, but utterly unfit for human habitation. It
had no chimneys, and here these people, deserted by their 
patron, dragged out a winter inconceivable suffering.
Seventeen died of exposure and starvation. They gladly
worked a day for a quart of buttermilk, or a quart of
meal. And in the spring when the land was allotted to
them, instead of getting 100 acres on the seacoast where
they could have obtained a good price for their lumber,
they got only half an acre, two miles West of the river,
and this was afterwards proved not to belong to Waldo.
The settlement was named Broad Bay. In 1754 Waldo built
a stockade or garrison, as a residence for himself, and a 
protection to the settlers, who took refuge there during
the French and Indian War. Notwithstanding these precau-
tions many were killed during the war, and others captured 
by the Indians.
      Phillip Vogler's father was killed by the Indians,
but when and under what circumstances is unknown, to us.
Phillip was forced to become a soldier and was stationed
at Copperton for nearly four years. There he married
Catherine Siez, with whom he had nine children, six sons
and three daughters.