Hi, I have a question??? Your: later turns up indenturing himself near Reading?... was this during the war? How do you know he indentured himself? Insted of like what happened to mine? The Knyphausen Reg. fought in the battle of Trenton & both Paul and Jacob were captured Dec. 26th 1776. Because of lack of jails, prisoners were assigned to American farmers who were responsible for them. Many were sent to Lancaster, PA. [ I have a copy of the Composition list of German and Waldeck prisoners of war, Paulus and Jacob are on it.] Paul was assigned to David Miller and Jacob to Richard Henry. The Bonstein men were listed on the Lancaster Exchange list & returned to the Knyphausen Reg. in 1778. I had thought when I first started researching that they were auctioned off to the farmers as a type of slave, or indentured... having to work for the farmer to pay for thier food and upkeep... So can you explain? Please.... Nelda Nelda L. Percival nee Gilpin, IBSSG http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillock/ http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/

Nelda, Where can I find this listing you mention? Still trying to connect my Vogus in Westmoreland 1790 to a Heinrich Voges in eastern Pa. Mary Vogus Hoffman ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nelda Percival" <nelda_percival@hotmail.com> To: <AMREV-HESSIANS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, July 28, 2005 2:23 PM Subject: Re: @WL Re: [HESSIAN] definition of term used in HETRINA > Hi, > I have a question??? > > Your: later turns up indenturing himself near Reading?... was this during > the war? > > How do you know he indentured himself? Insted of like what happened to mine? > > The Knyphausen Reg. fought in the battle of Trenton & both Paul and Jacob > were captured Dec. 26th 1776. Because of lack of jails, prisoners were > assigned to American farmers who were responsible for them. Many were sent > to Lancaster, PA. [ I have a copy of the Composition list of German and > Waldeck prisoners of war, Paulus and Jacob are on it.] Paul was assigned to > David Miller and Jacob to Richard Henry. The Bonstein men were listed on the > Lancaster Exchange list & returned to the Knyphausen Reg. in 1778. > > I had thought when I first started researching that they were auctioned off > to the farmers as a type of slave, or indentured... having to work for the > farmer to pay for thier food and upkeep... > > So can you explain? Please.... > > Nelda > > > > Nelda L. Percival nee Gilpin, IBSSG > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ > http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~gillock/ > http://freepages.history.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ > > > > ==== AMREV-HESSIANS Mailing List ==== > To unsubscribe click on AMREV-HESSIANS-L-request@rootsweb.com > and write one single word unsubscribe in subject line and text field. > No other words or explanations or it won't work. > ~~~~~~~~~~~ > 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 > > ============================== > Search the US Census Collection. Over 140 million records added in the > last 12 months. Largest online collection in the world. Learn more: http://www.ancestry.com/s13965/rd.ashx >

Sure, Nelda, My ancestor, Christian Schaeffer was in the Hesse-Hanau Erbprinz Regiment, Company 2. I found him in the "Hesse-Hanau Order Books,..." by Bruce Burgoyne. And in Hetrina, (pg 412 for which I'm indebted to Cindy Hoffman) he was captured--code 11, and entered in the record Sep 1782. Our incredible, retired leader, John, assured me that this unit was captured at Saratoga. From the Archives I found the marches (day by day) to Winterhill and Charlottesville. It's worth reading just to see the hardships those young men faced. And in the Archives, I read that later the prisoners were transferred to Reading, PA. (I read Henry Retzer's history of the Reading POW camp--Berks County, PA Historical Society.) There is no coded entry for desertion in Hetrina, but Code 32 = indentured is there (same entry date in the record 1782 Sep). My problem now is to find some documentation about to whom he indentured himself--for 3 years (that was the standard). One of the listers told me to whom, but I need some kind of proof. Jeri And 6 years later, I find Christian in Berks Co. His story goes on from here. Those Archives are terrific; there is a goldmine of info. I've waded through hundreds of entries, but not all yet. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Nelda Percival" > Hi, > I have a question??? > > Your: later turns up indenturing himself near Reading?... was this during > the war? > > How do you know he indentured himself? Insted of like what happened to mine? > >> So can you explain? Please.... > > Nelda