Came into my mail box, courtesy of the Rootsweb PML service. and herewith forwarded to the AMREV-HESSIANS-L mail list: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Paul Hawes" <p.hawes@mindspring.com> Sent: Wednesday, August 18, 2004 4:31 PM > ================================= > Source: VAROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: Hessians Soldiers of Rev. War > > I have a Carl Haldermann/Charles Halterman: > > Carl was a soldier in the Revolutionary War and served in British General > John Burgoyne's army of British regulars and Hessian troops. Carl was from > the German state of Braunschweig (Brunswick). Since the largest contingent > of troops brought to America was from the German state of Hesse-Cassel, the > German forces became known generically as "Hessians". After the Battle of > Saratoga, on October 17, 1777, General Burgoyne negotiated terms of > surrender. The terms were titled the "Convention of Saratoga" and specified > that the army would be sent back to Europe after giving a parole that they > would not fight again in North America. A total of about 5,800 British > Army, Hessian, and Canadian troops were sent to Boston. When Burgoyne > refused to provide a list of officers to ensure that they would not return, > Congress revoked the terms of the Convention. In November of 1778 the > "Convention Army" was marched south 700 miles through severe winter weather > to Charlottesville, Virginia, where they arrived early the next year. The > main body of the captives, who after exchanges and escapes numbered about > 2,800, lived in barracks at Ivy Creek northwest of Charlottesville. Carl > escaped in 1779. Sometime before 1784, he changed his name to Charles > Halterman. > Charles Halterman is listed as a landowner in Highland Co., Virginia as > having 200 acres on Straight Creek in 1786. He is listed in the Pendleton > Co. (formed from Augusta, Hardy, and Hampshire Cos. in 1787) Land Patents > as having 200 acres on Strait Creek in 1797 and 15 acres on Strait Creek in > 1796. He is listed in the 1810 Census of Pendleton County, Virginia (later > West Virginia) as being 56 years old, > This information is not from original research. It was pieced together from: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~vahighla/query/query008.htm > http://www.ficklin-fickling.org/ustrees/pafg157.htm#5203 > http://awt.ancestry.com/cgi-bin/sse.dll?ti=0&db=gedoth&f0=106554&f1=6625 > > > >Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 20:20:39 -0600 > >From: "Betty Wine" <bwine12@msn.com> > >To: VAROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com > >Message-ID: <BAY5-DAV20EfwzWIBbF000064b1@hotmail.com> > >Subject: Hessians Soldiers of Rev. War > >Content-Type: text/plain; > > charset="iso-8859-1" > > > >I am looking for any information on Hessian Soldiers who settled in > >Virginia after the Revolutionary War. > >Betty Wine > >bwine12@msn.com<mailto:bwine12@msn.com> > >Date: Tue, 17 Aug 2004 22:50:36 -0400 > >From: Bill Derrow <lwderrow@comcast.net> > >To: VAROCKIN-L@rootsweb.com > >Subject: Re: [VAROCKIN] Hessians Soldiers of Rev. War > >I know of at least two--but both were Braunschweigers not Hessians--Levien > >Doerge/Levy Derrow and Christopher Wetzel/Whetsel. > >Doerge/Derrow and probably Wetzel were captured at Saratoga and part of > >the Convention Troops that were held for a time outside of > >Charlottesville, Virginia, before being marched north down the Shenandoah > >Valley to Winchester and on to Frederick, Maryland. Many escaped along > >the way or were allowed to escape. These two were both in Rockingham by > >the end of the 18th century. >