Twists, Turns, Mysteries and Adventure - The Waldhauer/Walthour Family - Across the Atlantic Without a Captain - Part 4 #52 Ancestors
Can you imagine boarding a sailing ship to go from London to the Georgia Colony and finding yourself in the middle of the ocean without a captain to sail the ship? That is exactly what happened to the Johann Caspar Waldhauer family when they determined to continue the journey they had begun a year earlier. The family had had quite an adventure since leaving their German homeland. At their own expense, they sailed down the Rhine River headed to Amsterdam, dealt with numerous toll stops, had their belongings frequently rifled by customs agents, found themselves onboard the ship, Two Sisters, headed for Philadelphia, were taken captive by Spanish Privateers, became prisoners of war, lost all of their belongings, were placed in prison in Bilbao, Spain, ransomed by the English and returned to London! It is no wonder that they felt the British owed them a passage to the colony. They never landed where they were headed! It surely wasn't their fault that King George's ...