The HETRINA entries aren't your man, if he was captured at Bennington. He would have been with the Brunswick troops. None of those Hessian units served with Burgoyne. BOS is regiment von Bose KNY is regiment von Knyphausen WIS is regiment von Wissenbach ART is the Hessian artillery -Robert Sulentic -----Original Message----- >From: Adam Call Roberts <[email protected]> >Sent: Dec 19, 2011 7:22 PM >To: [email protected] >Subject: [AMREV-HESSIANS] "Tiffnaner" Surname > >I'd like to know if I'm on the right track here, and where I might be able >to look further. > >I'm trying to locate a Christopher Tiffaner / Tiffany on Hessian roles. > > > - On 23 Mar 1784, Christopher Teffener married Rebecka Ellis in > Bennington, VT. > - On 21 Apr 1784, Christopher Teffeney and his wife Rebecka were warned > to leave Bennington. > - Cambridge, VT town records show two children were born to Christopher > Tiffany and his wife Rebeccah in 15 Aug 1784 and in 20 Dec 1786, neither > with a place of birth shown. > - The Vermont Historical Gazetteer (1871) says "Christopher Tiffany, one > of Burgoyne's Dutch soldiers" immigrated from Bennington to Cambridge > between 1789 and 1800. > - In the 1790 census, Christopher Tiffaner was living in Cambridge, VT > with 5 white females. Other marriage, birth and death records show he > lived there until his death in 21 Mar 1809. He signed his named with an X. > - His grandson's journal lists Christopher Tiffany as "from Germany." > >So the obvious guess is that he was taken prisoner or deserted at >Bennington. > >One of my relatives suggests that 'Tiffaner' might be 'Dieffenbach' or >'Tiffenbacher' or something along those lines. I've received Clifford Neal >Smith's "British and German Deserters..." and can't find anyone of those >names or close to them. > >I had a couple hours with HETRINA on microfilm and jotted down a few >possibilities, along with the HETRINA abbreviations and codes. (sadly, >imagining I would have more time later with the index, and not writing down >what the codes meant) > >Here's the basics of what I jotted down, as far as the Christoph ____ s go: > >Book II: >Christoph Degenhardt - GE BOS4 12 2-1781 >Christoph Dettmar - GE BOS3 11 3-1781 > >Book III: >Christoph Dedenbier - GE KNY5 11 12-1774 >Christoph ______ - GE KNY5 11 2-1777 >Christoph Degenhasdt - GE RAL4 >Christoph Dieffenbach - GE WIS5 12 12-1779 >Christoph Dieffenbach - GE WIS 5 12 12-1779 >Christoph ______ - 12 8 - 1782 >Christoph Drebing - KA ART 11 10-1781 > >Book IV: >Christoph Toehne - KA ART 11 2-1777 > >If my search was comprehensive, I couldn't find any Christoph D___ or >Christoph T___ of an appropriate age who left or was captured during the >Saratoga campaign. > >Am I on the right track? What other sorts of names should I be looking for? >It is entirely possible that Christopher Tiffaner was not a Hessian at all >and the Gazetteer got it wrong. But the timing of the marriage seems >pretty coincidental. > >Thanks, >Adam Call Roberts >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