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The Hessian prisoners in the American War of Independence and their life in captivity

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Author
Volm, M. H.
Date of Publication
1937
Call Number
973.342 V926
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Responsibility
by M.H. Volm.
Author
Volm, M. H.
Place of Publication
[Charlottesville? Va
Publisher
s.n.,
Date of Publication
1937
Physical Description
27 p. ; 22 cm.
Notes
Title from cover.
Bibliography: p. 26-27.
Summary
This essay provides contextual information concerning how the English actually hired the soldiers and why the German princes, and not other nations who were asked, were willing to sell their men to English. It also discusses how the English and German public reacted to the hiring of German soldiers.
Subjects
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - German mercenaries.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.342 V926
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The Lancaster barracks : where the British and Hessian prisoners were detained during the Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo19362
Author
Sener, Samuel Miller,
Date of Publication
1895.
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Responsibility
by Samuel M. Sener.
Author
Sener, Samuel Miller,
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Harrisburg Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication
1895.
Physical Description
20 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
"Reprinted from Notes and queries, Harrisburg daily telegraph."
"Rolls of prisoners": p. 14-20.
Bound with other pamphlets by the author: The Catholic Church at Lancaster, Penn'a (1894, 52 p.) -- Historical sketch of the ancient parish of St. Mary's, Lancaster, Pa. (n. d., 12 p) -- Additional historical notes in reference to St. Mary's at Lancaster (n. d., 5 p.) -- Some Lancaster Catholics, adn other historical notes (n.d ., 6 p.) -- Very Rev. Bernard Keenan, V. G. Sketch of one of the pioneer priest's [sic] of Pennsylvania (n. d. 10 p.) -- The Acadians in Lancaster County, Paper read before Lancaster County Historical Society, September 4, 1896 (1896, 8 p.) -- Simon S. Rathvon, Ph.D: Lancaster's oldest living devotee of science (n. d. 8 p.) -- Old time heroes of the War of the Revolution and War of 182-14 (1895, 11 p.) -- The Lancaster barracks where the British and Hesian prisoners were detained during the Revolution (1895, 20 p.
Subjects
Lancaster (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.
 United States  - History y Revolution, 1775-1783 x Participation, German.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Registers.
Contained In
Sketches by Samuel M. SenerLancaster History Library - Lancaster County282 S475
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A generous and merciful enemy : life for German prisoners of war during the American Revolution

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Author
Krebs, Daniel,
Date of Publication
2013.
Call Number
973.371 K92
Responsibility
Daniel Krebs.
ISBN
9780806143569
0806143568
Author
Krebs, Daniel,
Place of Publication
Norman
Publisher
University of Oklahoma Press,
Date of Publication
2013.
Physical Description
xv, 376 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
Series
Campaigns and commanders ; v. 38
Notes
Includes bibliographical references (pages 335-359) and index.
Contents
German soldiers in British service -- Subsidy treaties -- Recruitment patterns -- Social composition -- Into captivity -- Prisoners of war in western warfare -- Capture and surrender -- Prisoners of war -- The first prisoners of war in revolutionary hands, 1775-1776 -- German prisoners of war, 1776-1778 -- Provisions and exchange, 1778 -- The Convention Army, 1777-1781 -- Continuity and change, 1779-1783 -- Release and return -- Epilogue -- Appendix: Common German soldiers taken prisoner.
Summary
"Some 37,000 soldiers from six German principalities, collectively remembered as Hessians, entered service as British auxiliaries in the American War of Independence. At times, they constituted a third of the British army in North America, and thousands of them were imprisoned by the Americans. Despite the importance of Germans in the British war effort, historians have largely overlooked these men. Drawing on research in German military records and common soldiers' letters and diaries, Daniel Krebs places the prisoners on center stage in A Generous and Merciful Enemy, portraying them as individuals rather than simply as numbers in casualty lists. Setting his account in the context of British and European politics and warfare, Krebs explains the motivations of the German states that provided contract soldiers for the British army. We think of the Hessians as mercenaries, but, as he shows, many were conscripts. Some were new recruits; others, veterans. Some wanted to stay in the New World after the war. Krebs further describes how the Germans were made prisoners, either through capture or surrender, and brings to life their experiences in captivity from New England to Havana, Cuba. Krebs discusses prison conditions in detail, addressing both the American approach to war prisoners and the prisoners' responses to their experience. He assesses American efforts as a "generous and merciful enemy" to use the prisoners as economic, military, and propagandistic assets. In the process, he never loses sight of the impact of imprisonment on the POWs themselves. Adding new dimensions to an important but often neglected topic in military history, Krebs probes the origins of the modern treatment of POWs. An epilogue describes an almost-forgotten 1785 treaty between the United States and Prussia, the first in western legal history to regulate the treatment of prisoners of war."--Publisher's website.
Subjects
German mercenaries
Prisoners of war - United States
Prisoners of war - Germany
Military prisons - United States
Forced labor - United States
Indentured servants - United States
Forced labor.
German mercenaries.
Indentured servants.
Military prisons.
Prisoners of war.
Deutscher Kriegsgefangener.
Nordamerikanischer Unabhängigkeitskrieg.
Tyska legosoldater
Tyska krigsfångar
Nordamerikanska frihetskriget 1775-1783.
Fängelser
Tvångsarbete
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons, German.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.
Germany.
United States.
Förenta staterna.
History.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.371 K92
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The Lancaster barracks : where the British and Hessian prisoners were detained during the Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1216
Author
Sener, Samuel Miller,
Date of Publication
1989.
Call Number
973.37 S475 reprint
Responsibility
by Samuel M. Sener.
Author
Sener, Samuel Miller,
Place of Publication
Hershey, PA
Publisher
G.T. Hawbaker,
Date of Publication
1989.
Physical Description
20, [7] p. : ill. ; 22 cm.
Notes
"Reprinted from Notes and queries, Harrisburg daily telegraph."
"Rolls of prisoners": p. 14-20.
Reprint. Originally published : Harrisburg, Pa. : Harrisburg Pub. Co., 1895. With index by Gary T. Hawbaker.
Subjects
Lancaster (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
 United States  - History  - Revolution, 1775-1783  - Participation, German.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.
Additional Author
Hawbaker, Gary T.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
973.37 S475 reprint
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Records of the revolutionary war: containing the military and financial correspondence of distinguished officers; names of the officers and privates of regiments, companies, and corps, with the dates of their commissions and enlistments; general orders of Washington, Lee, and Greene, at Germantown and Valley Forge; with a list of distinguished prisoners of war; the time of their capture, exchange, etc. To which is added the half-pay acts of the Continental Congress; the revolutionary pension laws; and a list of the officers of the Continental Army who acquired the right to half-pay, commutation, and lands

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Author
Saffell, William Thomas Roberts,
Date of Publication
1860.
Call Number
973.3 S128
Responsibility
By W. T. R. Saffell.
Author
Saffell, William Thomas Roberts,
Place of Publication
Philadelphia
Publisher
G. G. Evans,
Date of Publication
1860.
Physical Description
554 p. 20 cm.
Notes
First published 1858.
Subjects
Pensions, Military - United States
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Sources.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Biography.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Registers, lists, etc.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.
Additional Author
Washington, George,
Lee, Charles,
Greene, Nathanael,
Additional Corporate Author
United States. Continental Congress.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.3 S128
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The Lancaster barracks : where the British and Hessian prisoners were detained during the Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1165
Author
Sener, Samuel Miller,
Date of Publication
1895.
Call Number
973.37 S475
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Responsibility
by Samuel M. Sener.
Author
Sener, Samuel Miller,
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Harrisburg Pub. Co.,
Date of Publication
1895.
Physical Description
20 p. : ill. ; 25 cm.
Notes
"Reprinted from Notes and queries, Harrisburg daily telegraph."
"Rolls of prisoners": p. 14-20.
Subjects
Lancaster (Pa.) - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Prisoners and prisons.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Registers.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Lancaster County
Call Number
973.37 S475
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Hessian soldiers in the American Revolution : records of their marriages and baptisms of their children, in America, performed by the Rev. G.C. Coster, 1776-1783, chaplain of two Hessian regiments

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Author
Coster, G. C.
Date of Publication
1959.
Call Number
973.342 D547
Responsibility
translated and abstracted from the German by Marie Dickore.
Author
Coster, G. C.
Place of Publication
Cincinnati
Publisher
The C.J. Krehbiel Co.,
Date of Publication
1959.
Physical Description
25 p. ; 26 cm.
Subjects
Registers of births, etc. - United States.
German Americans.
United States  - History  - Revolution, 1775-1783  - Participation, German.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - German mercenaries - Registers.
Additional Author
Dickore, Marie Paula.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.342 D547
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The Hessians of Lewis Miller: assimilation of German soldiers in America after the Revolution

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Author
Stayer, Jonathan R..
Date of Publication
1988.
Call Number
759.1392 S798
Responsibility
by Jonathan R. Stayer.
ISBN
0939016079 (pbk.)
Author
Stayer, Jonathan R..
Place of Publication
Harrisburg, Pa
Publisher
Penn State Univ.,
Date of Publication
1988.
Physical Description
iii, 238 p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
A project in American Studies submitted in partial fulfillment of the requirements for a Master of Arts degree in American Studies, The Pennsylvania State University at Harrisburg, The Capital College, July 10, 1988.
Bibliography: p. 233-238.
Summary
Lewis Miller was an artist in York, PA. He made sketches of 22 Hessian soldiers who fought for the British during the American revolution and stayed in the York area after its conclusion. The author's book is based on those Hessians. In the introduction, the author states, "The purpose of this paper is to consider the individual soldiers, their families,their lives, and their involvement in the York community in which they settled. What happened to these men after the Revolution ? Why did they choose the communities in which they settled. Were they accepted by the Americans ? Did they experience financial success ? What was the nature of their family life ? Did their families suffer the stigma of having a 'Hessian' patriarch."
Subjects
Miller, Lewis, - 1796-1882.
Sherbahm family.
Sleeger Family.
Stengel Family.
Younger Family.
Zangel Family.
Vogt Family.
Baumgardner Family.
Cramer Family.
Farnschild Family.
Moore Family.
Engelmohr Family.
Hattendorf Family.
Henicker Family.
Herbst Family.
Hubly Family.
Lochner Family.
Stein Family.
Hessians - Pennsylvania - York County
German Americans - Pennsylvania - York County
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - German mercenaries.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Biography.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Portraits.
United States  - History  - Revolution, 1775-1783  - Participation, German.
York County (Pa.) - Biography.
Additional Corporate Author
Johannes Schwalm Historical Association.
Historical Society of York County (Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
759.1392 S798
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Lancaster Borough : host to British and Hessian prisoners of war, 1775-1784

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Author
Evans, Melvern R.
Date of Publication
1985
Lancaster Borough: Host to British and Hessian Prisoners of War, 1775-1784 By Melvern Evans, Jr. Like it or not, in 1775 the borough citizens of Lancaster were saddled with the unpopular task of housing and guarding prisoners of war from the Revolution. Whether or not they were properly prepared
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Responsibility
by Melvern Evans, Jr.
Author
Evans, Melvern R.
Place of Publication
Lancaster, Pa
Publisher
Lancaster County Historical Society,
Date of Publication
1985
Physical Description
144-151 p. : ill. ; 23 cm.
Series
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society ; v. 89, no. 4
Subjects
Prisoners of war - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
Contained In
Journal of the Lancaster County Historical Society. Volume 89, number 4 (1985), p. 144-151Lancaster History Library - Journal974.9 L245 v.89
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The Hessians of Lewis Miller

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Author
Miles, Lion G.
Date of Publication
1983.
Call Number
759.1392 M652
Responsibility
text by Lion G. Miles ; research by Jonathan R. Stayer and Lion G. Miles ; photography by Hayman Studio of Commercial Photography, Inc.
ISBN
0939016079 (pbk.)
Author
Miles, Lion G.
Place of Publication
[Lyndhurst, Ohio]
Publisher
The Association,
Date of Publication
1983.
Physical Description
iii, 68 p. : ill. (some col.) ; 28 cm.
Notes
"Pennsylvania German-American Tricentennial Project of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, Inc. with assistance from the Historical Society of York County (Pa.)."
Bibliography: p. 67-68.
Summary
Drawings of German men who had been soldiers for the British in the American Revolution and then remained in America after the war. Mr Miller knew of these men and made drawings of them. Biographical information accompanies the drawings.
Subjects
Miller, Lewis, - 1796-1882.
Hessians - Pennsylvania - York County
German Americans - Pennsylvania - York County
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - German mercenaries.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Biography.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Portraits.
York County (Pa.) - Biography.
Additional Corporate Author
Johannes Schwalm Historical Association.
Historical Society of York County (Pa.)
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
759.1392 M652
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