Dear Liz - for a small expense contribution of 10 bucks I will make a print-out of the Personal Data File of Anton, which I still have on a 5 1/4" disk on my old computer. I don't have every name, but this one I have a page full. Cheers, John Merz ----- Original Message ----- From: Lizabeth L. Starliper To: hessian@sympatico.ca Sent: Monday, January 24, 2005 6:30 PM Subject: Hessian Soldier Anton Sterlepper Dear Mr. Merz, I can't help but admire the wealth of information you have gathered regarding Hessian soldiers and their descendents. It is difficult to piece together a past involving persons who often left very little written evidence behind about their existences. I am a direct descendent of Anton Sterlepper who was a member of Hesse-Hanau Erb Prinz Regiment Co. 6 ( I believe). I did not know this until I ran into Bonnie Bingaman (whose my fourth cousin or second cousin) at the Starliper Family Reunion in Marion, PA (in the July 2002 posting, I noticed the location was Rhodes Grove Camp Ground. Interesting, because I grew up less than a mile away from there) a few years ago. Unfortunately, I didn't get to talk to her very long; I keep hoping she'll publish a book or something. Anyway, I was wondering if you have come across any information about this particular soldier since that July 2002 entry. He was just a private, a non-person really, but he was my great great great great... grandfather and my link to this country through my father's father's father's, etc. family. I read somewhere that he might have been imprisoned for a time at Saratoga, but I don't know if that's true or not. I do know he was from Eckenheim, a hamlet outside of Frankfurt-au-Maim which I can verify by looking at the list of Sterleppers still living in that area. There still are a few kicking around in Hesse. It would be nice to know whom he married and who his parents were, but I don't have the money to subscribe to ancestry.com or genealogy.com or any of those wonderful paid services that tempt me with their unaccessible information. Anything knowledge you could pass on would be extremely advantageous. Thank you in advance, Lizabeth L. Starliper llstarli@marauder.millersville.edu