A HISTORICAL SKETCH OF THE MORAVIAN MISSION AT BROAD BAY, MAINE. 1760-1770. Among the carpenters employed in the erection of the Single Brethren's House, at Herrnhaag, was Hans George Hahn. Leaving there in 1743, he proceeded to Reveilen, in Franken, where he became acquainted with some awakened souls, who were under the care of the chaplain of the Duke of Cassel, with whom he united. Here, too, he was married. After the lapse of a few years, the young couple resolved to go to Pennsylvania and settle in the vicinity of a Moravian congregation. But it so happened, that the vessel on which they sailed had her original destination changed to Boston, where they landed, and hearing of the German settlement at Broad Bay, in the present State of Maine, they proceeded thither in a coasting vessel. In 1732, Samuel Waldo, who was interested in a large tract of land bordering on Broad Bay, sent his son to Germany to induce emigration to his estates. To every man the promise was made, that 100 acres of land would be given and also assistance to make beginnings. By the year 1739, a few families had arrived, but the year following larger accessions were made and about the date of which this paper treats, it is estimated that near one thousand colonists were settled on the tract and in its vicinity. During the so-called "Spanish War,' Waldoboro, for so the principal town of the tract |