BERYL MARKHAM’S GREAT ADVENTURE:

Louisbourg’s Captain George Lewis drove immediately to Baleine returning Beryl to his home where she received assistance from Dr. Freeman O’Neil.

After lunch, Beryl phoned Jim Mollison in London, whose wristwatch she displayed to reporters noting it had now made three trips over the Atlantic. Outside the Lewis home hundreds gathered to meet her. She told one reporter,

“I’m feeling fine you know. After all it’s nice to have landed right side up on my first visit to America.” ⁹

“I stumble out of the plane and sink to my knees in muck and stand there foolishly staring, not at the lifeless land, but at my watch. Twenty one hours and twenty five minutes. Atlantic flight. Abingdon, England, to a nameless swamp non-stop. A Cape Breton Islander found me --  a fisherman trudging over the bog saw the Gull with her tail in the air and her nose buried, and then he saw me floundering in the embracing soil of his native land .” ¹ 

BERYL MARKHAM’S GREAT ADVENTURE:   

ABINGDON TO BALEINE, SEPTEMBER 5, 1936

Melchior Uhlmann

The Melchior Uhlmann Family


Switzerland 1742 to Halifax 1749


Melchior Uhlman immigrated to America from Beringen, Canton Schaffhausen, Switzerland in 1742 [5]. He and his wife Mary Magdalena and their first born, Cornelius, arrived at Broad Bay, Massachusetts (now Waldoboro, Maine) around the 28th of September 1742 aboard the ship Lydia [1]. Melchior was recruited by Samuel Waldo's agent, Sebastian Zouberbuhler who himself was a fellow Swiss. Zouberbuhler had made several trips back to the Old Country recruiting settlers for Waldo's lands in Maine and Massachusetts. Many of his recruits became indebted to Zouberbuhler and indeed Melchior and John Uhlman were still listed on the estate papers of Zouberbuhler after his death in 1773. Emigration fees of 14 pounds, 4 shillings, 6d., were still listed as owing by Melchior Uhlman to Zouberbuhler [1].

At the early settlement of Broad Bay, in the wilds of early Maine, the new immigrants experienced intolerable conditions. Not only were supplies and assistance of any kind particularly scarce, they had to deal with hostile native Indians, who were encouraged by the French to drive out the new settlers.

Governor William Shirley organized an army to attack the French stronghold at the Fortress of Louisbourg in Nova Scotia. "In 1744 two regiments were organized, one commanded by Col. William Pepperell, of Kittery; the other by Col. Samuel Waldo, of Falmouth. In the latter regiment 270 men were credited to Georges and Broad Bay" [2]. Specifically due to the intolerable conditions at the time, "….a large majority did enlist" [2]. Many men took their families as well, or perhaps brought them later after the battle. "Faust (The German Element in the United States, vol. I p. 252) says many of the foreign settlers who had been having a hard time on Waldo's lands in Maine enlisted in 1745 for the expedition to Louisbourg" [3]. A statement made by Pepperell, commander of the expedition, says: "A full third of the Massachusetts contingent, or more that a thousand men, are reported to have came from the hardy population of Maine, whose entire fighting force, as shown by the muster rolls, was then but 2885". "Maine's part at Louisbourg in 1745, therefore, was a most distinguished one. It is a matter for regret that, in the absence of official rolls, it is not now possible to present a complete list of the men who served in the three Maine regiments in that memorable campaign. Only a few names of those who served in Waldo's regiment have come down to us…."[6].

SEBASTIAN ZOUBERBÜHLER

SEBASTIAN ZOUBERBÜHLER


ZOUBERBUHLER, SEBASTIAN, businessman and office-holder; b. 1709 or 1710, probably in Switzerland; d. 31 Jan. 1773 in Lunenburg, Nova Scotia. - For the complete biography, including go to Dictionary of Canadian Biography Online: http://www.biographi.ca/en/index.html

Of Swiss origin, he was a Captain in Samuel Waldo's 2nd Massachusetts Regiment. After the fall of Louisbourg, he remained there with the occupying troops and set up a business. He later moved himself to Halifax (1749 or later)

Zouberbuhler came up with Waldo in the successful effort to take Louisbourg in 1745 . He was probably born in Switzerland, and, as is the case with so many Swiss citizens, then and today, Zouberbuhler could speak a number of languages including English, French and German. Seeing that there was to be opportunities for such persons as himself who had a flair for buying and selling things, Zouberbuhler stayed on at Louisbourg during the time that the English occupied the place, 1745-49. With the founding of Halifax in 1749 and seeing that that was where the money was; well, that's were Zouberbuhler next went. His fluency with the German language made him particularly valuable to the authorities beginning with the arrival of the German settlers in 1750; and, more particularly when they were sent to establish the new community at Lunenburg in June of 1753, a place at which he was to carry on until his death in 1773.

GENERAL DAVID WOOSTER

GENERAL DAVID WOOSTER


BY BRO. GEO. W. BAIRD,P.G.M., District of Columbia

GENERAL WOOSTER was born in Stratford, Conn., March 2, 1710, and died in Danbury, May 2, 1777, where the beautiful marble column, surmounted by the American eagle has been erected to his memory.

David Wooster was graduated at Yale College in 1732. When war broke out in 1739 between England and Spain he entered the provincial army as a lieutenant, and was soon afterward promoted to the captaincy of a vessel built and armed by the colony as a guarda costa, or coast-guard. At that time piracy was not uncommon, and pirates and freebooters were taking advantage of war conditions. In 1740 he married Miss Clapp, daughter of the President of Yale College.

In 1745 we observe his first movements in military life as a captain in Colonel Burr's Connecticut Regiment and he distinguished himself in the expedition against Louisburg. From Cape Breton he went to Europe in command of a cartel-ship but was not allowed to land in France, so he sailed for England where he was received with great honors. He was presented to the king, became a great favorite at court, and was made a captain in the regular service under Sir William Pepperell. When the French and Indian war began he was commissioned a Colonel of the Third Connecticut Regiment and was later promoted to Brigadier General. He served to the end of the War in 1763, and then became Collector of Customs in New Haven.

Wooster was 65 years of age when the Revolutionary War broke out and though still holding rank and pension in the British Service, he resigned them and entered the American Army. He was one of the originators of the attack on Ticonderoga which was captured and destroyed in 1775. When the Continental army was organized a few weeks later he received the appointment of Brigadier-General, third in rank. He was in command in Canada in the spring of 1776. In the same year he had a command in the unfortunate campaign of Montgomery, shared in the defeat, and was subjected to a court of inquiry but was acquitted. Shortly after he was appointed a Major-General in the Connecticut Militia. During the winter of 1776-77 he was employed in protecting his State against the enemy and was in command at Danbury when Governor Tryon made his attack. Near Ridgefield he led a body, of militia in pursuit of the invader and in an engagement on Sunday, April 27, 1777, was fatally wounded by musket-ball.

David Wooster was the first Master of a Mason lodge in Connecticut, becoming Master of Hiram Lodge in 1750. He took a keen interest in the Craft, and was regular in attendance to the end of his life. He was the idol of the brethren of the good old nutmeg State.

[Source: The Builder Magazine, July 1921 - Volume VII - Number 7, http://www.phoenixmasonry.org/the_builder_1921_july.htm ]

GOVERNOR ROGER WOLCOTT

GOVERNOR ROGER WOLCOTT


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Gov. Roger Wolcott (Simon2, Henry1) was born on 4 Jan 1679. He married Sarah Drake, daughter of Lieut. Job Drake and Elizabeth Clark, on 3 Dec 1702. He died on 17 May 1767 at age 88.

Roger was a Representative of South Windsor in the Connecticut general assembly in 1709, raised to the bench of justices in 1710; accompanied expedition against Canada in 1711; elected member of council in 1714; Judge of County Court in 1724; Judge of Superior Court, 1732; Deputy Governor an dChief-Justice of Supreme Court, 1741. In expedition against Louisbourg in 1745 he was commissioned Major General by Governor Shirley of Massachusetts and was second in command to Pepperell. He arrived at Cape Breton with the troops April 30, and June 17, the city of Louisburg capitulated and the provincial forces entered it. Governor of Connecticut, 1750-54.

ALEXANDERWOLCOTT

ALEXANDER (afterwards Dr.) WOLCOTT


Accompanied the Connecticut troops as surgeon's mate

ISRAEL STOUGHTON.

Capt. DAVID ELLSWORTH (E.W.)

JOHN WARHAM STRONG, was a first lieutenant in service.

JAMES EGGLESTON, Jr. (Wby), was impressed into the service.

EZRA LOOMIS (Wby) died at Louisbourg aged about 24 years, Dec. 18, 1745,

THOMAS BARBER (Wby) died at Louisbourg, aged about 24 years, 1745.

STEPHEN GILLET (Wby) died at Louisbourg aged about 34 years, Feb. 1746.

CALEB CASE (Wby) died at Louisbourg, aged about 34 years, May 10, 1746.

JAMES BARNETT (Wby) died at Louisourg, aged about 22 years, April 24, 1746.

JEREMY ALFORD (who lived on Cook's Hill) distinguished himself by his bravery at Louisbourg ..."

Henry R, Stiles, M.D., The History of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, including East Windsor, South Windsor, and Ellington, Prior to 1768, The Date of Their Separation from the Old Town, And Windsor, Bloomfield and Windsor Locks, To the Present Time. Also the Genealogies and Genealogical Notes of Those Families Which Settled Within The Limits of Ancient Windsor, Connecticut, Prior to 1800. (New York: Charles B. Norton, 1859).[pp. 333-334] "Windsor contributed many of her best citizens to this [Louisbourg] enterprise, but it is impossible to ascertain the names of all

JOSHUA WINSLOW

JOSHUA WINSLOW


... _Before Joshua Winslow was married, when he was but eighteen years of age, he began his soldierly career. He was a Lieutenant in Captain Light's company in the regiment of Colonel Moore at the taking of Louisburg in 1745. He was then appointed Commissary-General of the British forces in Nova Scotia, and an account-book of his daily movements there still exists. Upon his return to New England he went to live at Marshfield, Massachusetts, in the house afterwards occupied by Daniel Webster. But troublous times were now approaching for the faithful servants of the King. Strange notions of liberty filled the heads of many Massachusetts men and women; and soon the Revolution became more than a dream. Joshua Winslow in that crisis, with many of his Marshfield friends and neighbors, sided with his King._ ...

[Anna Green Winslow, Diary of Anna Green Winslow A Boston School Girl of 1771, Editor: Alice Morse Earle (Boston and New York Houghton, Mifflin and Company ,The Riverside Press, Cambridge, 1895) ]

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