Bob, Thank you for your excerpts. Do you know if the HETRINA has a place of origin for "Alsace"? If so, how do I find it to search it? I have looked at some list of the Regiment Deux Ponts (from which I am pretty sure the name "Dupont" comes!) I have also heard of specific troops of Hessian recruits from Alsace. Thanks again, Margi -----Original Message----- >From: Bob Brooks <[email protected]> >Sent: Jun 29, 2011 10:14 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: Re: [AMREV-HESSIANS] Christoph Nicolaus > >Keep in mind that the Regiment Deux Ponts [in German, Regiment Zwei Brücken] >served with Rochambeau's army and was at Yorktown with the American army. > >As for HETRINA (covering the Hesse Cassel, Waldeck and Hesse-Hanau troops), >there were 24 different letter codes (J & Q excepted) coving the men's >places of origin including "F" for France. > >Two examples I have immediately at hand from the Ansbach-Bayreuth troops >are:. > > D E S E R T E D , From the Corps of Yagers of his Most Serene >Highnerss the Prince of Anspach, the following undermentioned Four Men the >25th Octo. 1782, Viz ... >[#4] PAPTISTA COURBEAU, Five Feet 4½ inches high, Middle sized, black >Hair, Black-small-Pox-Faced, born of French Parents, speaks bad German, had >on when he went away a Green Coat and Waist Coat, black Velvet Breeches, and >Accoutrements as the Former [a brass Hanger with a Yellow Leather Belt, a >Rifle-Piece and a black or brown Leather Knapsack], Aged 23 Years. > The Commanding Officer of the aforesaid Corps Captain de Wurmb, >desires, that if any of the before mentioned deserters should come to any >Person or Person's sight to apprehend and deliver him or them to the nearest >Post in possession by his Majesty's Troops or to the Corps at present >garrisoned at Hallifax: The Commanding Officer Captain de Wurmb Offers not >only to pay all reasonable expences, but will Reward the Person or Persons, >apprehending any one of them, handsomely. >VON WURMB, Captain. > [Halifax] Nova Scotia Gazette & Weekly Chronicle, issue of >29 October 1782, p. 3, col. 3. > >And a baptismal record from the Ansbach regimental church book: > >1782-At two o'clock in the afternoon of 3 October, there was legally born >[at Halifax] and thereafter baptized: Ernst Friederich-The father is Georg >Chateau of Meisenheim in Saarbrücken, a Corporal in the Jäger Regiment-the >mother is Anna Maria, nee Buettner, of Anspach. Sponsor: Captain Ernst >Friederich Willhelm von Wurmb, of that regiment, who died of a wound during >action at Penobscot. > >Although Meisenheim is in Germany, "Chateau" certainly is not a German >surname. > >Bob Brooks > >----- Original Message ----- >From: <[email protected]> >To: "Margaret Haas" <[email protected]>; <[email protected]> >Cc: <[email protected]> >Sent: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 5:25 PM >Subject: Re: [AMREV-HESSIANS] Christoph Nicolaus > > >> Hi and welcome to Amrev-Hessians, >> >> I'm sorry that I can't help with your search, and I may be wrong, but I >> think that it is unlikely that four or five brothers all came over with >> the German auxiliary forces, and I've never heard of any coming from >> France. The French provided help for the Americans during the Revolution, >> not the British. Again, I may be wrong, but good luck anyway! >> >> Bill Smith >> Daniel Engelcke (later Angle), Regiment von Specht, Ehrenkrook Company >> >> ----- Original Message ----- >> From: Margaret Haas >> Date: Wednesday, June 29, 2011 5:06 pm >> Subject: Re: [AMREV-HESSIANS] Christoph Nicolaus >> To: [email protected] >> >>> Sorry I can't help with your Hessian. How did youget access >>> to the HETRINA volumes? I am looking for four or five French >>> Alsatian brothers who came over as Hessians and stayed. The >>> modern surname is Corya or Coryea; before it could have been >>> Cruea, Cruey, Coryell. In German, closest would have been Kruer >>> but I am sure our family name was originally French. Thanks >>> for any help you can render! >> PLEASE CHECK ALL OF YOUR SUBJECTS! >> ~~~~~~~~~ >> FOUNDER: John H. Merz 1924-2006 Created 1998 >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin >> ~~~~~~~~~~~~ >> ADMINISTRATOR<Kerri> [email protected] >> ------------------------------- >> To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to >> [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without >> the quotes in the subject and the body of the message > > >PLEASE CHECK ALL OF YOUR SUBJECTS! >~~~~~~~~~ >FOUNDER: John H. Merz 1924-2006 Created 1998 >~~~~~~~~~~~~ >http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin >~~~~~~~~~~~~ >ADMINISTRATOR<Kerri> [email protected] >------------------------------- >To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message

> Thank you for your excerpts. Do you know if the HETRINA has a place of > origin > for "Alsace"? It does not.. The only codes for countries on the continent of Europe layng west of present-day Germany are: B Belgium (Austrian Netherlands) F France G Portugal or Spain N Netherlands