RootsWeb Message Boards - Message [ Re: JOHANN KONRAD UEBELHACK ] Boards > Surnames > Uebelhack Subject: Re: JOHANN KONRAD UEBELHACK Author: John Helmut Merz Date: 02 Feb 2005 11:05 PM GMT Email: Good start, Earl, and I wish you good luck with your search for your Hessian soldier ancestor. I do have a problem with your desertion date, although the Staedtler list of Ansbach deserters quotes him as having deserted on 18. May 1783, which seems to be the basis of your conclusions. This would place him in an entirely different location, and may be the source of your problem finding him. Consider this - in the "A Hessian Officer's Diary of the American Revolution" , translated from An Anonymus Ansbach-Bayreuth Diary as originally written by Johann Ernst Prechtel, translated and edited by Bruce E. Burgoyne, published by Heritage Books, Inc., Bowie, Maryland, 1994, on page 94 is listed UEBELACKER as a deserter from the Grenadier Company while the Company was stationed at Rhode Island, in 1778. With him are lsied as deserters: Friedrich Stoll, Chreistoph Bernhard, Johann Georg Rummel, and Simon Gruber. Mind you, they did not desert together on one day, but from the same location at Newport, R.I. (Stoll 20 Feb 1778, Bernhart 1. March 1778, Rummel 13.Aug.1778, could not find Gruber, Simon) Anyway, let's hope that we find some cousins of yours who can help with this search. Name like this can't get lost, eh? Greetings, John Merz, retired in Ontario.