And while I am just at this subject of sharing - please share with the list - let your cousins know you care. This is the place where we learn from each other - this is the place to ask questions - this is the place to provide answers - for the benefit of every subscriber - we Hessian descendants are one big family and we want to stick together, help each other - solve puzzles - overcome brickwalls - find new friends - what more do you want? John ----- Original Message ----- From: Phares O'Daffer podaffer@gridcom.net To: hessian@sympatico.ca Sent: Sunday, January 23, 2005 8:46 PM Subject: Note to John Merz John, I am still trying to learn more about my great great great grandfather, Johann Wolfgang Odoerfer (John Odorfer, John Odoffer, etc.) who was a Hessian soldier with the Ansbach Regiment that came to America in the late fall, 1778. I have a lot of data, and believe that, as one of the prisoners that stayed behind in the Hessian Barracks near Winchester, VA, he deserted the British on Oct 12, 1782, to join Armand's Lighthorse Division. This division, according to the Dohla and Prechtel diaries, then marched through Fredrick in Maryland, and then on to Lancaster, Little Yorktown, and possibly Philadelphia. I also know that the hessians in Armand's corps were discharged at York Pennsylvania on November 15, 1783. So from Oct 12, 1782 to November 15, 1783, about 11 months, Johann Wolfgang Odoerfer was in Armands corps. My question is... Where did they go during this time? ( I see no records that they really went to Philadelphia, or even Lancaster or Little Yorktown, for that matter.) What did they do? Do you know of any references that would be helpful? I read "General Armand and his Partisan Corps, 1777-1783" by Albert W. Hoarmann, but found out nothing about the time period in question. Thanks for any insight you can give. Phares O'Daffer