Excerpted from History of Thomaston, Rockland, and South Thomaston, Maine, from Their First Exploration, 1605, By Cyrus Eaton; Published by Masters, Smith & Co., printers, published 1865, Pages 194-195:

Captain John Ulmer was born at Ulm, Wurtenberg, Germany, 3 January 1735/1736.  He was the son of Johannes Ulmer and Anna Margaret Weeber.  He lived in what was then called the Broad Bay settlement which is present day Waldoboro, Lincoln, Maine.  The town was incorporated in 1773 and developed a reputation as a ship building and port facility from the banks of the Medomak River.  About 1770 John and his son John built the first ship there, a brig of 150 tons called the “Yankee Hero.”  He served as a private in Captain Phillip Ulmer's Company, Colonel Samuel McCobb's Regiment in the Penobscot expedition from 08 July - 24 September 1779.  About 1794 he removed to East Thomaston which is present day Rockland, Maine.

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This year, Captain John Ulmer, a native of Germany, who came over with his father in the first company of emigrants to Broad Bay now Waldoboro, removed his family from that town on to the large tract of land which he had taken up and his sons George and John, Jr., had been working upon several years earlier, in the eastern part of the town, now Rockland.  Being a man of property and energy, Captain Ulmer, himself, continued lime-burning from the celebrated and inexhaustible quarries which he or his son George was probably the first to open in that part of the town; loaded with lumber the vessels which he owned and sometimes navigated; and built others at his own shore, perhaps the first ever launched in what is now Rockland.  Having a keen perception of the prospective advantages of the locality, he made a judicious selection of land, combining the best capabilities of quarry, soil, and sea-shore, which could well be embraced in one location. On being jeered by some of his Waldoboro friends for setting himself down in such a wilderness, he replied, "this will one day become a city," — a prophecy which some of his thirteen children lived to see fulfilled.  His father having been a leading man in civil, military, and ecclesiastical matters in the Broad Bay settlement, and this son of his and also a grandson bearing the same name, they have often been confounded with each other; and the anecdotes and doings of all three have sometimes been ascribed to the subject of this paragraph, who, at the time of leaving Germany, was but a child of four years; and Miss Remilly, who ultimately became his wife, was actually born on the passage.   Possessing a natural fluency of speech and no lack of confidence, he early became the principal reader and in time the exhorter or preacher, in the absence of any regular clergyman, at the Broad Bay religious meetings.  These services he occasionally rendered, also, for the edification of such as chose to assemble in the new and humble log-house in which he now resided here, at Ulmer's Point, as it began to be called.  These clerical functions, however, seem not to have wholly withdrawn his mind from earthly possessions, nor prevented the occasional use, when provoked, of profane language; for the story is told that, on one occasion in the midst of his religious services, perceiving his potato field in danger, he suddenly broke out with "donner and blitzen! Yacob, Yacob, dare is de tam hogs in de potatoes! tousand teifel! run, run, trive dem out and put up de fence.”

Most of the thirteen children of Captain Ulmer settled here on this valuable estate; which was ultimately divided among them.  Of the daughters, Margaret with her husband, Jacob Achorn, and five children, came in 1796, and settled on one portion; Mary Croner came earlier and married Isaac Brown, who settled on a second portion, and, with his brother William, another son-in-law of Ulmer, gave name to BROWN'S CORNER; while the sons located themselves in different places, at the shore, the quarries, or "the meadows" built mills; burnt lime, went into navigation; and, with their posterity, have contributed no inconsiderable portion to the industry, wealth, and population of Rockland.