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Joseph Ludwig is presumed to have been " ... born in Kinderroth, Province of Dietz, Germany, in 1699, and left there with his wife Catherine Kline, and three children together with sixty other German families, for America ... in June, 1753, and while in the English Channel they touched at Cowes, Isle of Wight, when he and several other passengers died, and were buried on the coast of France. The remainder of the family arrived safe at "Broad Bay," Waldoboro' [Massachusetts], where a German colony was formed the September following."--Page 15. His wife survived him a number of years, and her remains now repose on the western bank of the Madomok, near the old German church yard."--Page 19.
An extensive work, this is based on original records, mainly of the Congregational and Episcopal churches of the period 1651-1800. About 30,000 marriages are recorded, arranged by town and thereunder by church, and they give the full names of the brides and grooms, and the marriage dates. Each of the seven volumes is indexed.