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    1. Re: [HESSIAN] Soldier ranks
    2. Bob Brooks
    3. <<<clip>>> I wonder if there > is a roster somewhere of those prisoners at these camps?? > Somehow, Christian ended his days as a POW at the camp in Reading, PA and > it > was from there that he indentured himself. HETRINA VI has the index to records at the archives in Marburg. I do not own a copy of HETRINA VI. I am told that there POW lists for the Hesse-Hanau Regiment Erbprinz (not to be confused with Hesse-Cassel Regiment Erbprinz) in the Library of Congress. Perhaps someone can expand on this. In the AMREV-HESSIAN-L archives search under <Albemarle> for material submitted by John Merz and Lion Miles. It'll will also provide you with additional references. I recommend that anyone interested in the Convention Army obtain a copy of the 2001 JOURNAL of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association http://pages.prodigy.net/halschwalm/resumes/jshadx01.html Anton Adolf Heinrich Du Roi's Diary of the Convention Army's March from Massachusetts to Virginia, translated by Dr. Gerhard Friesen. This journal provides a day by day, mile-by-mile description of the 700 mile, 70 day winter march from Cambridge, Mass, to Charlottesville, Va. The same issue has additionial information re: the Hesse-Hanau Regiment Erbprinz prior to it surrendering with Burgoyne., viz- Journal of the Hessen-Hanau Infantry Regiment Erbprintz, Kept by Judge-Advocate Paul Wilhelm Schaeffer - March 1776 to April 1777, Plus Letters to his Parents, translated by Henry J. Retzer. Journal of the Hessen-Hanau Infantry Erbprinz Infantry Regiment - June to August 1777, Kept by Chaplain Philipp Theobald, translated by Henry J. Retzer. Back issues of the JOURNAL are available from the JSHA. http://www.jsha.org/publications.htm Happy reading. Bob Brooks

    07/18/2005 06:26:21