Roger -- >>> I am seeking evidence that supports the story - carried down through generations of my mother's family - that placed her ancestor KEMPER with the Hussein troops captured at the Battle of Trenton, held at Valley Forge and released into the United States (Pennsylvania) with title to a parcel of land, seed and a small amount of cash. <<<clip>>> The three regiments decimated at Trenton were v. Loßberg's, v. Knyphausen's and Rall's. The troops serving in the Regiment v. Loßberg are indexed in HETRINA II and the troops serving in the Regiment v. Knyhausen and Regiment Rall are indexed in HETRINA III. I do not find any surname phonetically similar to KEMPER in those lists. Also taken at Trenton were 50 to 60 members of the Hessian Artillery. I do not have an index to thes troops. There were no POWs interred at Valley Forge. The list of the 712 Trenton POWs held at Lancaster PA and vicinity in 1777-1778, published in _Johannes Schwalm, the Hessian_ (Millville PA: Precision Printers, Inc., for the JSHA, 1976) does not include any surname phonetically similar to KEMPER. The Trenton POWs who did not desert from POW status were exchanged in July and August 1778. Several hundred from the Regiment v. Knyhausen became POWs for a second time when the transport ships taking them to Quebec was disabled by a huricane and were captured by the Americans. Bob Brooks