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.