Mary Jane Black

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Mary Jane Achorn was born in Waldoboro, Maine, USA on 9 Aug 1827 to George Achorn and Mary Schumann. Mary Jane married Frederick Black and had 7 children. She passed away on 22 Sep 1905 in Warren, Maine, USA.

Parents

George Achorn

Mary Schumann

Spouse(s)

Frederick Black 1823-1893

Children

Eugene Everett Black 1852-Unknown

Charles Freeman Black 1854-1890

Wesley C Black 1858-1860

Mary E Black 1860-1860

Cyrus Black 1861-1942

Elmer Ellsworth Black 1863-Unknown

Goodwin A Black 1868-1904

'The Achorns and The Schumanns

From: The Full Text of the History of Waldoboro Maine

20 HISTORY OF WALDOBORO.

(In) this letter Mr. Starman states that "a few German emigrants began the original plantation of Waldo- boro ; it is supposed they came over in the sum- mer, or autumn, of 1739. It was first the abode of only two or three families to which accessions were made in 1740. The Eastern and Canadian Indians, in what was called the Spanish war fell upon the settlement in May, 1746, reduced their habitations to ashes, killed some of the people, and carried the residue away captives. The settlement lay waste till 1748."

If we take Williamson s History of Maine, Sewair s Ancient Dominions of Maine, or Eaton's Annals of Warren, as authority, there was a settlement at Waldoboro, then known as Broad Bay, as early as 1740. Eaton says: "The same year, 1740, forty German families from Brunswick and Saxony, tempted by the imposing offers, which the indefatigable Waldo, when in Europe, had made and caused to be circulated in their language, after first landing at Braintree, Mass., arrived at Broad Bay, and laid the foundation of the present town of Waldoboro. Prior to this there was no settlement nearer to St. George than Pemaquid and Damariscotta." Among those early settlers Eaton mentions one John Ulmer, who acted as preacher, and afterwards removed to Thomaston (now Rockland), and from whom de- scended the extensive Ulmer family of that vicini-

EARLY SETTLEMENT. 21

ty. According to these authors, this feeble Ger- man colony settled on both sides of the bay, or river, and, after suffering incredible hardships, was entirely destroyed by the Indians as previous- ly mentioned. The houses were burned and many of the people killed, or carried into captivity. Those, who escaped, fled to St. George or Pema- quid.

In 1896, Mr. Edgar O. Achorn, a Boston law- yer, a descendant of the Waldoboro "Eichorns,"' made exhaustive researches of this subject, the results of which were embodied in a paper read before the New England and Maine Historical Societies. From the documentary evidence Mr. Achorn secured, he reached the conclusion that the first settlement of Waldoboro was made in 1742 ; that the transport arrived at Marblehead in October of that year; that the colony consisted of about one hundred and forty souls. 'All of the writers from whom I have quoted seem to have been in error in fixing the date of the first expe- dition in 1 740. Eaton was in error when he stated that they first landed at Braintree ; and Mr. Keller was a month behind the calendar when he dated his letter the '6th day of the 9th month in the

I. The original German name meaning fruit of the oak. Mr. Edgar O. Achorn says: "Wherever you find the name of 'Achorn,' which is a corruption of the German name 'Eichorn,' you may know that the person burdened with it reverts back to Waldoboro, for nowhere else was such an abortion on this name ever perpetrated"-

22 HISTORY OF WALDOBORO.

year 1742.' What become of this colony in sore distress, as it seems to have been in i743' is still to my mind a matter of inquiry and of doubt. Their petition for a ship to be sent to their relief to bring them from eastern parts so that they may be employed in such business as to enable them to support themselves, their wives and children, was not granted."

Mr. Achorn continues: "I am not inclined wholly to adopt Eaton's views that they lingered until the expedition to Louisburg, 1745, then all enlisted under Waldo' and removed their families to that place. But I think that evidence as exists will confirm the conclusion that the large majority did so enlist, and that the remnant only fell a prey to, or were dispersed by, the Indians in May of the following year, — 1746."

But while we now admit the evidence that a settlement of Germans was located at Broad Bay as early as 1742, we are inclined to believe it was not \ki^ first settlement in this locality. In 1873 Rufus K. Sewall, of Wiscasset, -the well-known historian, in a letter to the author, stated: "Wal- doboro had its earliest settlement in the expansion of the Pemaquid population." With well-record-

I. In 1744 two regiments were organized, one commanded by Col. William Pepperell, of Kiltery; the other by Col. Samuel \YaIdo, of Fal- mouth. In the latter regiment 270 men \vere credited to Georges and Broad Bay.