Toni -- First you need to join the list to receive AMREV-HESSIANS messages, There have been several since John Merz forwarded your email to the list. Sign up is easy. Click on <AMREV-HESSIANS-L-request@rootsweb.com> which if you are using most common e-mail software will open a new emaial addressed as above. Leave the subject line blank and in the text write only the word Subscribe and send the email. Notice that the e-address has the added tail "-request" after the list name. This funnels it to an automatic program which adds you as a subscriber. To end receiving programs, repete the same process but use the word: Unsubscribe I am pleased you have located your Jakob Hachenberger and apologize if my earlier email turned out to be a "red herring"; however, I associate German POWs at Lancaster PA with the POWs taken at Trenton. After the Trenton POWs were exchanged in 1778, I think of Lancaster as principally holding British POWs. Jakob Hachenberger was part of the Hesse-Hanau contingient. HETRINA VI covers the Hesse-Hanau troops was published later than the earlier volumes so I never obtained a copy. The account you give below just skims the surface of what Jakob Hachenberger actually encountered so you have a lot of reading to do. A few additions and corrections to the account below. First it wasn't March 5, 1775 that they reached Quebec, it was May 1776, usually May 6th is used but the convoy had to make its way through the ice in the river so anytime in the first 10 days of May is reasonable. They had departed Hanau on the mornin of 16 March 1776. In the campaign of 1775, the Americans had come up through the NY lakes and captured Montreal, tturn turne east towards the fortress at Quebec. In the meantime Arnold came over the hieight of the land from Maine to Quebec. The attack 31 Dec 1775 failed and the Americans lay siege to Quebec all winter. With the arrival of the warships and their convoys on 6 May, the Americans lifted the seige and began a withdrawal. In the meantime, the Amercan relief force was coming from the NY Lakes to join up. The two forces met at Trois Riviores on 8 June 1776 which fundamentally marked the end of the American campaign in Canada. Other listers can provide you recommended readings on this phase as I am not particularly knowedgeable on this campaign. As the Hesse-Hanau troops were with the Brunswick troops, the journals by Brunswickers should not be missed. After the Convention Army surrendered at Saratoga in Oct 1777, they were marched to Cambridge, Mass., to await (they supposed) transportation which would take them back to Europe. The Continental Congress never endorsed the Convention of surrender and using a minor infraction by the British, declared it invalid. Then in Nov 1778, the made a 7 day, 700 mile winter march from Cambridge MA to Charlottesville VA were they interred in the incomplete Albemarle Barracks. From Albemarle barracks at Charlottesvile, the POWs were move to Winchester VA whem Cornwallis' army moved into Virgina in 1781, then when Winchester was closed in early 1782, they went to Pensyslavania. I recommend you purchase a copy of the 2001 JSHA Journal. Of particular interest you will find: (pp.19-29) Gerhard K. Friesen, translator, "Anton Adolf Heinrich Du Roi's Diary of the Convention Army's March from Massachusetts to Virginia" (pp.30-40) Henry J. Retzer, translator, "Journal of the Hessen-Hanau Infantry Regiment Erbprinz kepot by Judge-Advocate Paul Wihelm Sxhaeffer -- March 1776 to April 1777, plus Letters to his Parents." (pp.40-42) Henry J. Retzer, translator, "Journal of the Hessen-Hanau Erbprinz Infantry Regiment -- June to August 1777 -- kept by Chaplain Philipp Theobald." John Merz put a lot on material in the AMREV-HESSIANS archives on the subject of the Albemarle barracks at Charlotteville and also on Winchester. You will find references to articles written by Lion G. Miles of which photocopies are available for purchase from the Winchester Library. I think it will be well worth your time to go through the archives To search: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/?list=AMREV-HESSIANS To browse: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/AMREV-HESSIANS-L Good luck, Bob Brooks ----- Original Message ----- From: "richard hackenberger" <rhackenb@mail.win.org> To: "Bob Brooks" <rcbrooks@pivot.net> Cc: <AMREV-HESSIANS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, April 20, 2005 12:10 AM Subject: Re: [HESSIAN] Jakob Hachenberger > Hello Bob, > Thanks for taking the time to delve further into my query. Census takers > and transcriptions vary the name from HACHENBERGER, HACKENBERGER, > HAGENBERGER, HOCKENBERGER, HOCHENBERGER and more I haven't discovered as > yet. Jim Stokes on the Lancaster, PA List was kind enough to check Rupp's > "History of Lancaster County" [p.411] back in May of last year. He quoted > the passage of Rupp's interview with Jakob as follows: > > "... In September, 1843, we visited one of the German mercenaries, living > at Millpoert, Warwich Township; a Mr. Jacob Hagenberger, who according to > his own statement, was born March 3d, 1750, arrived at Quebeck, March 5, > 1775. He belonged to Captain Schachter's company; he was taken prisoner at > the surrender of General Burgoyne, October 17, 1777; taken to the barracks > near Boston, thence to Winchester, Virginia, thence to Reading, and lastly > to Lancaster, where, on the close of the war, he was sold for eighty > dollars, for the term of nearly three years to Captain Jacob Zimmerman, of > Earl township. Hagenberger is now in his 94th year. His health is good and > memory remarkable." [It was probably 80 pounds in those days...] > > Recently, I also found a record through AncestryPlus [Passenger and > Immigration Lists Index (PILI) showing HACHENBERGER, JAKOB "Location > Quebec" on pages 73, 173 and 174 of "Hessische Truppen Im Amerikanischen > Unabhaengigkeitskreig (Hetrina): Index nach Familiennamen / Hanauische > Regimenter. (Marbureg: Archivschule) (Veroeffentlichungen der > Aruchvivsschule Marburg, Institut fuer Archivwissenschaft, Nr. 10) Band > VI, Heft 1: A-L. Marburg, 1987. Band VI, Heft 2: M-Z. Marburg, 1987. My > disadvantage is that I neither read nor speak German. Nor do I know where > to find these volumes. > Additional men listed of this same surname were "Christian", "Jost" and > "Wilhem / Guilliam". I have found no U.S. records for any of these other > three though I'm aware that there are some HACKENBERGER folks living in > Canada to this day. > > I also checked the JSHA which linked me to the F&M archives list which > showed "Box 24, folder 4, Jacob Hachenberger" and emailed the contact > person for imformation on getting copies of those files.The JSHA does list > in their "Researched Soldiers" JOHANN GEORG HACHENBERGER who was either a > brother or cousin to Jacob. His listing shows "Hesse-Hanau; Schwalheim; > Musketeer; Erbprinz Reg., Co. 5; HETRINA Vol VI; Captured at Saratoga; > Indentured himself at Lancaster; Remained after the war and settled at > Donegal Township, Lancaster County." I have a good bit on this 5th > HACHENBERGER. I check as many as possible so that I might either include > or exclude them. Those of the HACKENBERG or HACHENBERG surname are > completely unrelated lines. > > So, after all my long-winded revelations here, do you have any further > suggestions for me? I appreciate all the help I can get. Thanks again, > > Toni Hackenberger > St. Peters, MO