Peggy: May I suggest that you and others like you send their papers to the SAR Library, Louisville, KY 40203 Howard F. Horne > This is of interest to me not just because of the possibility of being a > comrade of Gottlieb Westphal/ Westfall, but also because one of my > mother's sisters married a Schaeffer whose family was in Berks Co. for > a long time. And they spelled the name with all the letters - Schaeffer. > My cousin sent all of his papers to the F&M library NOT to the JSHS. My > last contact, several years ago, with F&M indicated that they had not > done anything with this material. If I am able to find anything further > on what they have done by way of a listing or cataloging I will notify > the list. > Peggy Lyte Tyrrell, desc, of Gottlieb Westfall/Westphal and a distant > cuz of John's wife. > > > john wrote: > > >Dear Geraldine, eh, Jeri Schindler; > > > >I assume that Arrah (Jim) Spohn wrote to you direct, > >he most certainly wanted to help you, and he does know > >where his Hessian soldier came from. > > > >I tried to help you too, after all, I put your first mail to me > >over this mail list. I did mention that we have to know a few > >more details, because there are too many of the same name > >who stayed in America, as Bob Brooks found out when he > >tried to help with a Christian Schaeffer of the Ansbach-Bayreuth > >troops. Did somebody else pointing you in the same direction? > > > >Well now, in a posting of yours last week, you mentioned that > >your Christian SCHAEFER was from Bad Nauheim, and that > >information, if true, opens a whole new possibility. Mind you > >as far as the age of 15 at time of capture is concerned, I am > >not sure, I can't check that out anymore, but I am 991/2 % sure, > >he was the Hessen-Hanau soldier of the Regiment Erbprinz, > >who sold himself on 11. Sep. 1782 at Reading, PA, and he was > >a comrade of Henrich SPAHN, Jim Spohn's ancestor, and of > >Gottfried WESTPHAL, who is connected to my wife's line > >in Germany, and Peggy's, distant cousin to my wife :--) > > > >You (or someone who has that volume) can check this out in > >Hetrina VI, and in Clifford Neal Smith's Monograph No.5, > >where you can find many entries for Christian, under the name > >Schaefer and Scheeffer. So forget about Trenton, forget about > >Yorktown, he was captured at Saratoga in October 1777, and > >was a member of the Convention Army. > > > >Hey, how about that. here we find a comrade of Spahn and > >Westphal, they all went through the same adventures. > >Somebody should write a book about those guys. > > > >Greetings, > >John Helmut Merz > >retired (I have to tell me that all the time) > > > > > >----- Original Message ----- > >From: "Jeri Schindler" <2shins@charter.net> > >To: <AMREV-HESSIANS-L@rootsweb.com> > >Sent: Friday, June 03, 2005 3:37 PM > >Subject: [HESSIAN] Schaffer at Reading > > > > > > > > > >>Arrah (Jim) > >> > >> > >> > >>>How did you find out so much about... > >>> > >>> > >>>From cousins and other researchers of Schaffer,and tax records, cemetery > >> > >> > >records, census, Berks County PA Historical Society, this list, the Family > >History Library at Salt Lake. I bought books: Dohla's diary, C.N. Smith's > >"British and German Deserters...", POW List from J.S.H.A. Some of these at > >least provided negative info--so I look somewhere else. > > > > > >>Really, Jim, I'm very new to genealogical searching, so I just stumble > >> > >> > >around and stab here and there--sometimes with the good fortune to meet some > >really knowledgeable genealogists. The nearest I found for your Kaspar > >Spohn is from <SNIP - in order not to confuse Jim and other readers) > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== AMREV-HESSIANS Mailing List ==== > Please stick to our published subject - Hessian Soldiers of the > American Revolution, not WWII or the Civil War. No other Immigrants. > You can search the archives for a specific message or browse them, going from > one message to another. > To search: http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/?list=AMREV-HESSIANS > To browse: http://archiver.rootsweb.com/AMREV-HESSIANS-L > > ============================== > Census images 1901, 1891, 1881 and 1871, plus so much more. > Ancestry.com's United Kingdom & Ireland Collection. Learn more: > http://www.ancestry.com/s13968/rd.ashx >