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Brunswick deserter-immigrants of the American Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo8084
Author
Smith, Clifford Neal.
Date of Publication
1973.
Call Number
973.342 S644b
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Responsibility
Clifford Neal Smith.
Author
Smith, Clifford Neal.
Place of Publication
Thomson, Ill
Publisher
Distributed by Heritage House,
Date of Publication
1973.
Physical Description
4, 49, [2] p. ; 28 cm.
Series
German-American genealogical research monographs ; no. 1
Notes
Bibliography: p. [51]
Subjects
German Americans
Registers of births, etc. - United States.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Registers.
Braunschweig Region (Germany) - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.342 S644b
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A composite list of German prisoners of war held by the Americans, 1779-1782

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14254
Author
Schwalm, Mark A.
Date of Publication
1981.
Call Number
905.748 JSHA v.2, no.1
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Responsibility
by Mark A. Schwalm.
Author
Schwalm, Mark A.
Date of Publication
1981.
Physical Description
p.4-15.
Notes
In: Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, v.2 no.1 (1981)
Subjects
Prisoners of war
Hessian mercenaries.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.
Prisoners and prison, German - Registers.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 JSHA v.2, no.1
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Diary of a Hessian soldier, Johannes Reuber

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo1577
Author
Reuber, Johannes.
Date of Publication
n.d.
Call Number
973.342 R442
DIARY OF A HESSIAN SOLDIER, JOHANNES REUBER typescript & translation by Herbert H. Freund (copy of original typed German in cabinet) �1 7 7 6 I, Johannes Reuber was born in Niedervellmar, near Cassel on the 25th day of February 1759, the Tuesday following Mardis Gras, and, was christened the 2nd
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Responsibility
typescript & translation by Herbert H. Freund.
Author
Reuber, Johannes.
Place of Publication
Typescript
Date of Publication
n.d.
Physical Description
44p. : ill. ; 28 cm.
Notes
Original in German housed in the archives.
Summary
The diary follows Hessian soldier Johannes Reuber from 1776 to 1783. He describes his sea voyages in detail, the hardships involved and the weather. He saw action in New York and was captured at Trenton at the time of Washington's surprise crossing of the Delaware river. He spent time as a prisoner in Philadelphia, then Lancaster,Pa. and in Winchester, Virginia. After being freed,the remainder of the war was mostly spent in Savannah,Georgia and other parts of the South. He returned to Germany in 1783.
Subjects
Reuber, Johannes - Diaries.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Personal narratives.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Biography.
Diaries.
Additional Author
Freund, Herbert H.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.342 R442
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The diary of Philipp Waldeck

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo15414
Date of Publication
1983.
Call Number
905.748 JSHA v.2, no.3
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Responsibility
edited by William E. Dornemann.
Date of Publication
1983.
Physical Description
23-49 p.
Notes
In: Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, v.2, no.3 (1983).
Summary
Philipp Waldeck was chaplain for a group of German soldiers that was sent to the American colonies to fight for the British in the American Revolution.The diary recounts that experience.
Subjects
Waldeck, Philipp - Diaries.
United States
Hessian mercenaries.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.
Diaries.
Additional Author
Dornemann, William E.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.748 JSHA v.2, no.3
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Documents

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/9798a09c-84ed-46d5-9111-204145385460
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
NOV 1875 F029 QS
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
System of Arrangement
Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
Arranged by case number within each term.
Year
1875
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Wentler, John
Search Terms
Quarter Sessions
Charge: assault and battery
German
Object Name
Documents
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
NOV 1875 F029 QS
Additional Notes
Signature in German.
Assault and battery.
2 items, 2 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Case Number
18.000
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
Description Level
Item
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
NOV 1875 F032 QS
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
System of Arrangement
Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
Arranged by case number within each term.
Year
1875
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Wentler, John
Wintler, John
Search Terms
Quarter Sessions
Charge: larceny as bailee
German
Object Name
Documents
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
NOV 1875 F032 QS
Additional Notes
Signature in German.
Larceny as bailee.
2 items, 2 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Case Number
21.000
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
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Item
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https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/c84bca37-4e19-4c9d-8846-968178361323
Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
Object ID
NOV 1874 F110 QS
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Collection
Quarter Sessions
Title
Quarter Sessions
System of Arrangement
Organized by Court of Quarter Sessions term.
Arranged by case number within each term.
Year
1874
Storage Location
LancasterHistory, Lancaster, PA
People
Grotwald, Fritz
Search Terms
Quarter Sessions
Charge: larceny
German
Object Name
Documents
Language
English
Condition
Fair
Object ID
NOV 1874 F110 QS
Additional Notes
Larceny.
4 items, 4 pieces
Access Conditions / Restrictions
Request at Reference Desk; photocopy made by staff member.
Case Number
114.000
Classification
RG 02-00 0908
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Item
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A generous and merciful enemy : life for German prisoners of war during the American Revolution

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo20623
Author
Krebs, Daniel,
Date of Publication
2013.
Call Number
973.371 K92
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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 German regiment of Maryland and Pennsylvania in the Continental Army, 1776-1781

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo12806
Author
Retzer, Henry J.
Edition
Rev. ed.
Date of Publication
1991.
Call Number
973.34 R441
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ISBN
1585492027
Author
Retzer, Henry J.
Edition
Rev. ed.
Place of Publication
Westminster, Md
Publisher
Willow Bend Books,
Date of Publication
1991.
Physical Description
ix, 183 p. ; 21 cm.
Notes
"WB0529"--P. [4] of cover.
Includes index.
Subjects
United States. - Continental Army. - Maryland German Regiment - Registers.
United States. - Continental Army. - Pennsylvania German Regiment - Registers.
Soldiers - Maryland - Registers.
Soldiers - Pennsylvania - Registers.
German Americans - Maryland - Genealogy.
German Americans - Pennsylvania - Genealogy.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.
Maryland - Genealogy.
Pennsylvania - Genealogy.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Book
Call Number
973.34 R441
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Hessian laborers at Lancaster, Pa., 1777

https://collections.lancasterhistory.org/en/permalink/lhdo14392
Author
Smith, Clifford Neal.
Date of Publication
1971
Call Number
905.29 NG v. 59 (1971)
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Responsibility
by Clifford Neal Smith.
Author
Smith, Clifford Neal.
Date of Publication
1971
Physical Description
p. 188.
Notes
National Genealogical Society Quarterly, v., 59 (1971).
Summary
This is a short article that provides the last names of Hessian prisoners who were being paid for work on "public buildings" in Lancaster. No other information about the prisoners or their work is given.
Subjects
Hessians - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
Prisoners of war - Germany.
Prisoners of war - Pennsylvania - Lancaster.
United States - History - Revolution, 1775-1783 - Participation, German.
Location
Lancaster History Library - Periodical Article
Call Number
905.29 NG v. 59 (1971)
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