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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 <placename></placename><placename>Germany</placename> were poorly adapted to their wants. In
<date>1748</date> and in <date>1751</date> several more families joined them, and
in <date>1753</date>, <persname>Waldo's </persname>son went to <placename>Germany</placename> and distributed cir-
culars offering the most flattering inducements, so that
sixty families arrived in <date>September</date> 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 <persname>Waldo</persname>.
The settlement was named <placename>Broad Bay</placename>. In <date>1754</date> <persname>Waldo </persname>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.
      <persname>Phillip Vogler's </persname>father was killed by the Indians,
but when and under what circumstances is unknown, to us.
<persname>Phillip</persname> was forced to become a soldier and was stationed
at <placename>Copperton</placename> for nearly four years. There he married
<persname>Catherine Siez</persname>, with whom he had nine children, six sons
and three daughters.