Date: Thu, 20 May 1999 12:12:45 -0700 From: John Helmut Merz <hessian@cgocable.net> To: AMREV-HESSIANS-L@rootsweb.com Message-ID: <37445EAD.7FDE@cgocable.net> Subject: Re: Hessian Ancestor Johannes Ries Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit In reply to this query I submit the following: >From HETRINA III #11802-807: Ries, Johannes, born 1753/54 at Schrecksbach D3579, Private in Hesse- Kassel Regiment v.Knyphausen, 1.Comp., listed to be on leave on Muster Roll in 1775 (Reserve), and listed in Regt. Muster Roll as POW with following dates 2/1777, 9/1779, 9/1782, 11/1782, and 5/1783. There are no other entries for this soldier, no discharge or desertion date given. (Probably kept on POW list to collect his pay) There is also a Christian Ries listed, born 1754/55 at Schrecksbach, who also served in the same comp. of this Regt., and has the same dates entered on the Muster Roll. One Johannes Ries of the Hesse-Kassel Regt.Erbprinz died in the USA in Dec.1779. Trenton Prisoner list as published in JSHA Journal Vol.3/1 - 1985: Christian and Johannes Riess both listed as having been taken to Lancaster. >From the Lancaster Exchange lists as taken from Johannes Schwalm book: Ries, Johannes, KNY1, worked for Sebastian Graff, Lancaster. on Exchange list #1, sent from Lancaster, 17 June 1778 to Philadelphia. Same for Ries, Christian. On a list of Hessian and Waldeck prisoners received July 1778 from Wm.Attlee, Esq., Lancaster to be exchanged (published with the gracious permission of The Historical Society of Pennsylvania, Mr.J.Moody, Dir.) >From the Knyphausen Regt.: Christian and Johannes Ries.----------- Here the trail grows cold. John. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Dallas R. Reese wrote: > Dear list and Mr. Merz: > Wondering if anyone on the list has info on my Fourth Great- Grandfather Johannes RIES who was a Hessian soldier in the Knyphausen > Regiment and was possibly captured at Trenton, NJ in 1776. <SNIP> > Dallas Reese DalAmyReese@compuserve.com Charlotte, NC