Hi, I need something settled in my mind if any of you can help.... This was a PML return to me, and brings up a question I've always had... MONEY... were the German soldiers (Hessians) paid money or did the prince of the area they came from get it all..??? In the writing below see "his savings of gold coin, paid by England for his three years services, " How true is this? I mean in general... did the Hessian recieve payment for services... like the soldier of current times does now? "Cartmell's History" By T. K. Cartmell 1909 Page 499 "Old records show the old CONRAD CREPTS could not have been a poor man when he chose to remain in Winchester and not return with the Hessian prisoners to his old country. his savings of gold coin, paid by England for his three years services, must have been hoarded by him; and when the war closed, he was virtually a rich man among the people who had nothing but worthless scrip for money." Nelda Pax et bonum! Nelda L. Percival nee Gilpin http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillock/ http://doodleartgraphics.com