Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Sprague's Journal of Maine History, Vol. 5: May, June, July, 1917
But Waldo's first transactions were with scotch-irish immigrants not with Germans. In 173311 and 1735 - 6 Irish Protestants or Scotch descent located in the upper and lower towns of St. George's and on the land near its mouth; the English settled Medumcook (now Friendship). On April 13th, 1735, 27 families of this same stock made a contract with waldo to settle at Broad Bay; in the following year, however, they located not at that place but chiefly on the St. George River; in fact, the colony at Broad Bay always remained predominantly German. These settlers contributed zeal and energy to their task; they set about promptly to build houses, which were constructed of boards from Waldo's mill. The cellars were unwalled and reached through a trap door in the main room; in addition also to these discomforts they were continually exposed to the attacks of marauding Indians, and they as well as the cattle which some of them had brought suffered in no small degree from the intense cold. S. G. Drake, the historian, says: The winter of 1736 - 7 was especially hard on the poor; many died from its severity, and sermons were preached on this subject. Meanwhile, however, Waldo was not insensible to the larger needs of the com munity; he started a lime kiln14 at this time (later there were two), and his saw mill, put up in 1735, met an urgent need.
But with it all, he felt and saw the need of a larger agricultural population, and it was this need which prompted him in great measure to seek and promote the immigration of Germans.
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