Ann -- If you don't have specific references at hand, I am afraid that you won't have a lot of success at TNA -- The National Archives (formerly the PRO or Public Record Office). First -- to get there you take the "Tube" (London Underground) to connect with the District (green) Line (board only trains marked for "Richmond"). South Kensington station is a good place to connect from either the Circle (yellow) Line or the Piccadilly (blue) Line. Get off the train at the Kew Gardens Station and after the train has departed, cross the tracks and go out the back gate.onto West Park, then hang a left onto Burlington which becomes Ruskin Ave which leads directly into the PRO -- Oops! TNA. It saves a hundred yards or so going the back way. It is less than a ten minute walk. TNA opens at 9:00AM except Tuesday (10:00AM) and Saturday (9:300 AM) and it will take 40 min to an hour by the Tube from the city depending on how your connections work out. Do some homework before you depart. http://www.nationalarchives.gov.uk/visit/plan.htm There are some 9.5 Million items cataloged on the electronic catalog which you can address from home. The search the catalog is: http://www.catalogue.nationalarchives.gov.uk/search.asp If you put < Hessian > in the Word or Phrase box and limit the time from 1775 to 1785 and leave the bottom box blank, you will get only 25 "hits" of which 21 are clearly defined. [Audit Office] AO 3/55 marked "Hessians" and covering 1776 to 1794 looks interesting as it is part of the AO series "Foreign Troops: Accounts of payments, with musters, pay lists, and other subsidiary documents:"; however, most of the documents in this series pertain to the Napoleonic Wars so I suspect there is one RevWar item filed here. The last three listed [Treasury] T 38/812, T 38/813 and T 38/814 all marked "Accounts of Hessian troops engaged in America" and covering 1775-(1795?) also might be interesting. Thirty years ago I spent a day in T 389/812 which contains about 225 payrolls of the Ansbach-Bayreuth soldiers and contains documents written in English, French and German script.. I hope that if you look at T 38/813 and T 38/814 you will report to this List the contents of those two items. PRO 30 is a series of private papers donated to the PRO. PRO 30/11 is the papers of General Lord Cornwallis and PRO 30/55 is the papers of General Sir Guy Carleton. T 1/xxx is a very large collection of financial documents. [State Papers] SP 81/178 also includes "Major-General William Faucitt (Hanover) 1777- 1779; with tables (in German) dated 1776 showing (i) updated order of march for the departure of the first column of Hessian troops in the pay of Great Britain from Münden into the territories of Bremen; (ii) order of march of same troops from Münden to Bremerlehe; (iii) order of march of same troops for embarkation from Ritzebüttel" Unfortunately, if you want to look at "lists of Hessians" you have to go to the Staatsarchiv Marburg in Germany or of your "Hessians" are Brunswickers to the archives in Wolfenbüttel. If you don't have a working knowledge of German and an ability to read German script, you are going to have a very difficult time at these two places. I hope these few thoughts help. Bob Brooks ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ann HeInz" <agatha1@flash.net> To: <AMREV-HESSIANS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, March 21, 2005 12:32 PM Subject: [HESSIAN] National Archives, England >I am going to be in London for two weeks and would like to check out the >Hessian lists. Are they all on film or on paper that can be photocopied? > Is it easier to go and make copies or reach lists through the web site? > What is the sequence to open up those pages on the web site? > Thank you for your help. > Ann