Below listed are five of the six children born to the 1782 Ansbach-Bayreuth replacement recruits. Apparently another child was born on the crossing to America of whom I find no record. For those of you wondering about naming practices, notice that three of the fourt children are given the same name as thir godparent of the same sex (and the fifth includes the sponsor's name).. I have observed the same practice in my limited review of Hessian church records. (1) Chateau, Anna Maria, nee Buettner, wife of Corporal Georg Chateau. At two o'clock in the afternoon of 3 October [1782], 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. (2) Arnold, Margaretha, nee Wunderlich, wife of Jäger Georg Arnold 1782-At three o'clock in the afternoon of 17 December, there was legitimately born at Penobscot and thereafter baptized: Michael Peter-the father is Georg Arnold, a field jäger from Ansbach-the mother is Margaretha, nee Wunderlich, of Bayreuth. Sponsor: Vice-Corporal Michael Peter Krieger, and his wife (3) Elisabeth. (4) Rosenhauer, Elisabeth, wife of Jäger Georg Rosenhauer. At Penobscot, at five o'clock in the morning of 30 December [1782], there was legitimately born and thereafter baptized: Anna Regina Elisabeth-the father is Field Jäger Georg Rosenhauser, from Culmbach- The mother is Elizabeth, nee Schweigand. Sponsor: Field Jäger Georg Jakob Schnepf and his wife (5) Anna Regina Elisabeth. (6) Benz, Marion, nee Winter, wife of Jäger Georg Adam Benz. On 15 May [1783], in the absence of Chaplain Erb, there was born at Penobscot, and on 8 September [at The Downs, U.K.?] baptized, Johann Friedrich-the legitimate son of Field Jäger Georg Adam Benz and his wife Marion, nee Winter, of Feurth. Sponsor: Field Jäger Friederich Neues [?-this man not identified]. (7) Hassler, Cathar. Margaretha, nee Tripps, wife of Conrad Hassler. At three o'clock in the afternoon of 15 July [1783] at Penobscot, during the absence of the chaplain, there was born, and after the Ansbach troops were reunited at the downs (England) baptized on board the ship The Brothers on 8 September: Anna Susanna-The legitimate daughter of Field Jäger Conrad Hasster and his wife Cathar. Margaretha, nee Tripps. Sponsor: (8) Anna Susanna, from Rastel[?], Wife of Waldhornist [Leonhard] Schramm. Bob Brooks

Hi List... You know its just wonderful how you all respond when I make an error... Thank you thats wonderful! I should probably make more and we might get some good information going here... Does anyone know if these wives might have been support staff like cooks and laundresses??? Or how they met as in maybe the wife before they married was support staff?? There has always been through out history women who traveled with the soldiers, some were married to the soldiers some were camp followers... But the list still isn't for finding surnames of people who arrived here (non Hessians) before the Am. Rev War... Maybe one of you could tell her how to try to find the surname of the wife of her non Hessian ??? nelda Nelda L. Percival nee Gilpin, IBSSG http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillock/ http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/