Introduction -- Background -- Captured at Trenton -- Imprisonment of the Hessians -- Employment of the prisoners -- Inducements to remain in America -- Location of employment sites -- Hessian prisoners associated with the Cornwall Iron Furnace -- The list of prisoners -- The list of employers -- Summary -- Prisoners belived to have stayed in America -- Endnotes -- Notes on prisoner documentation.
Also in: Lebanon County Historical Society papers, v. I, no. 16. Call no.: 974.819 - L441, v. I, no. 16.
Includes information on Dr. Henry William Stoy ; Dr. George Reidenaur ; John Bickel Mish ; Dr. Benjamin Phreaner ; Dr. George Lineaweaver ; Dr. Henry Schneck ; Dr. Philip Greth Smith; Dr. Nathaniel Ranch ; Dr. John W. Gloninger.
Addresses delivered at the second stated meeting of the Lebanon County Historical Society, held in the court house, Lebanon, Pa., Friday, April 15, 1898.
Lebanon County Historical Society publications ; v. 1, no. 3
Notes
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Contents
Chapters: Great influx of Germans and Swiss -- Early residents -- The plan of the town -- The name of the town -- The old market house -- The Franklin House -- The water works -- Stiegle's Castle or Tower -- The Reformed church -- Early members of the Reformed church -- The Lutheran Church -- The Lutheran School House -- The founder of the town -- The old cemetery -- Copy of a paper found in the Reformed Church records ( in German ).
