Settler, planter, magistrate and justice of the peace in colonial Delaware
Spouse
Elizabeth Wolgast
Children
Robert Wolgast
Relatives
Thomas Blades Wildgoose, William J. Wilgus
Otto Wolgast (c. 1640–1681) was one of the first settlers of Lewes, Delaware in the United States. He was an early magistrate and follower of Mennonite reformer Pieter Corneliszoon Plockhoy at the Dutch colony of the Zwaanendael in the New Netherlands. He would later serve as justice of the peace under the English colonial authorities.[1]
^J. Thomas Scharf, History or Delaware 1609–1888. Vol 1. (Philadelphia: L J Richards & Co., 1888) 510.
OttoWolgast (c. 1640–1681) was one of the first settlers of Lewes, Delaware in the United States. He was an early magistrate and follower of Mennonite...
Wolgast (German pronunciation: [ˈvɔlˌɡast] ) is a town in the district of Vorpommern-Greifswald, in Mecklenburg-Vorpommern, Germany. It is situated on...
text of P. F. Schmidt "Philipp Otto Runge; sein Leben und sein Werk", Leipzig: Insel Verlag 1923 Runge-Haus in Wolgast Available English translation of...
Bogislaw IV (*1258; † 1309) → Pomerania-Wolgast (see section below) (III) Barnim II (* about 1277; † 1295) (III) Otto I (* about 1279; † 1344) → Pomerania-Stettin...
Bogislaw IV became Pomerania-Wolgast, whereas Otto I received Pomerania-Szczecin south of these rivers. In 1368, Pomerania-Wolgast was divided into a western...
Lewes, Bethany Beach, and Sussex County, Delaware who are descendants of OttoWolgast, an early settler in the area who arrived in 1663. The Wilgus family...
Gützkow and Wolgast were conquered in the following years. The major stage of the westward expansion into Lutici territory occurred between Otto of Bamberg's...
Duke Wartislaw IX of Pomerania-Wolgast (c. 1400 – 17 April 1457, Wolgast) was the eldest son of the Duke Barnim VI, Duke of Pomerania (dynasty of Griffins)...
present-day Lewes, Delaware. Plockhoy and his followers, which included OttoWolgast a later magistrate and early settler in the town, arrived on board the...
Usedom and Wollin. Bogislaw made Wolgast his residence, thus the partition became known as Pomerania-Wolgast. Otto's share was the remainder between Peene...
Duchy of Wolgast, while Szczecin and the maritime port of Stargard were in the Duchy of Szczecin. Although in 1311 Duke Wartislaw IV of Wolgast confirmed...
Carl-Eduard, Prince of Bismarck (Carl-Eduard Otto Wolfgang Jayme Anders; born 16 February 1961), often known as Carl von Bismarck, is a German politician...
painter; born in Greifswald Philipp Otto Runge (1777–1810) a Romantic German painter and draughtsman; born in Wolgast Johann Gottfried Ludwig Kosegarten...
ISBN 0-02-897502-2 Bear 2016, p. PT21. "Giles on Hampe and Reichert and Wolgast, 'Kriegstagebuch 1914-1919' | H-Net". networks.h-net.org. Retrieved 6 October...
death of Duke Otto III, the last Duke of Pomerania-Stettin. The Dukes of Pomerania-Wolgast, Eric II and Wartislaw X, held that they were Otto's rightful heirs...
heathen practices and idolatry. Otto this time visited primarily Western Pomeranian burghs, had the temples of Gützkow and Wolgast torn down and on their sites...
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