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.