Hans Jerg Rominger was born in 1680 in Winterlingen, Germany, and later moved from there to Singen, near Durlach. He married Elisabeth Odelin in 1708 in Winterlingen. In 1742 he applied for permission to emigrate to New England with his sons David and Phillip. His son Michael did not emigrate until 1752, but then joined his family at Broad Bay, Maine. This settlement was a colony recruited in Germany by an American entrepreneur, Samuel Waldo, who promised more than he delivered in terms of land and amenities. George Soelle, a Moravian missionary who came to the settlement, noted that the settlers were "poor as church mice" and suffering greatly from the cold, inclement winter weather. Soelle established a Moravian church in Broad Bay in 1762. In 1770 a group of families left Broad Bay and traveled by ship to Wilmington NC, then overland to the Wachovia area, forming a new community at Friedland.
Hans Jerg Rominger was born in 1680 in Winterlingen, Germany, and later moved from there to Singen, near Durlach. He married Elisabeth Odelin in 1708 in Winterlingen. In 1742 he applied for permission to emigrate to New England with his sons David and Phillip. His son Michael did not emigrate until 1752, but then joined his family at Broad Bay, Maine. This settlement was a colony recruited in Germany by an American entrepreneur, Samuel Waldo, who promised more than he delivered in terms of land and amenities. George Soelle, a Moravian missionary who came to the settlement, noted that the settlers were "poor as church mice" and suffering greatly from the cold, inclement winter weather. Soelle established a Moravian church in Broad Bay in 1762. In 1770 a group of families left Broad Bay and traveled by ship to Wilmington NC, then overland to the Wachovia area, forming a new community at Friedland.
