Dear Jane, it is pretty obvious that I am trying to clear my in-box of older and unanswered mail. This one sounded interesting enough for me to keep it on the plate until now, I can't give you much, except to say .... The name MOYER is as far as I am concerned a variation of MEYER. Meyer's of course are as numerous in Germany as sand pepples on the Naples, Florida beach. I want to quote only one without saying this is him, from my Hetrina III files. It could be him, but there are other possibilities I cannot look for at this momemnt: From the Kassel Regiment Rall, 4. Company, born 1759/61 in Strausseweder (Hoya) ?? Could be 27318 Hoya, Lower Saxony, MEYER/MEYRER, Friedrich, deserted July 1781. With him from same company deserted one Samuel ABRECHT, born 1761/63 in Grebenstein/Hessen, The Regiment Rall at time of their desertion was stationed at Charleston, South Carolina. And this is my contribution to the Amrev-Hessians mail list archives, cheers, John Merz. ----- Original Message ----- From: WMCURCI@aol.com Sent: Monday, January 26, 2004 6:24 AM Subject: [Hessian] Moyer (no given name, sorry) Dear John, I thought I would try to find one (unnamed) Moyer who came as a Hessian soldier. Frederick could be the first name. Checked our files...there is no Hessian query about the name. Also check the Schwalm list, there is no "Moyer" there. It would be nice if we could identify him for the records. Jane MOYER, FREDERICK, p. 906 Surnames: MOYER, PAINTER, ULRICH, BOYER, HOSSLER, BURKHOLDER, KEPLEY, MARDARNESS. WORTLUFT, DEPPEN, HOOVER, FOX Frederick Moyer, , a prominent agriculturist of Heidelberg township, Berks County, who is also engaged in operating a saw mill in the South Mountains, above Robesonia, Pa., was born at Millcreek, Lebanon Co., Pa., Oct. 20, 1855, son of Daniel U. and Sarah (Painter) Moyer. Frederick Moyer, grandfather of Frederick, was but nine years old when his father, who was a Revolutionary soldier of the Hessian forces, sent here by England to fight against the Colonists, died. Frederick Moyer was born about 1796, and died near Robesonia, in his eighty-second year, and was buried at the Corner Church, of which he was a Lutheran member. He was reared in Millcreek, Lebanon county, and when a young man located at the South Mountains, where he built a home and barn and cultivated a tract of eighty acres of land until his death. Mr. Moyer married Katie Ulrich, daughter of George Ulrich, and to them were born these children: Jonathan (a farmer near Robesonia); Catherine and Rebecca (died unmarried); Daniel U.; Susanna (m. Peter Boyer); John (died unmarried); and Mary and Peter (died young). Daniel U. Moyer was born March 14, 1831, and on the Moyer homestead in Millcreek, Lebanon county, and died Jan. 25, 1875, having been a farmer and iron worker all of his life. He was also interred at the Corner Church. Mr. Moyer married Sarah Painter, who was born Sept. 29, 1834, and now lives with her son, David, at Robesonia. She is a daughter of Jacob and Barbara (Hossler) Painter, of Heidelberg township. To Mr. and Mrs. Moyer these children were born: Mary, m. Charles Burkholder of Sheridan, Pa.; Frederick; Rebecca, m. the late Frank Kepley, and resides near Robesonia; Daniel lives at Richland, Pa.; Susan m. Samuel Mardarness, of Robesonia; Jacob died young; Urias is of Robesonia; Sallie m. Samuel Wortluft, of Wyomissing; Katie died aged eight years; Amanda m. John Deppen of Womelsdorf; and David is of Robesonia. Frederick Moyer was reared to farming, and when nineteen years of age commenced working in the furnace at Robesonia. This work he was compelled to give up after twenty-one years on account of ill health, and he then purchased his sawmill property in the South Mountains, a tract of nine acres. He soon began to prosper, and by earnest effort and strict attention to business was able to purchase the old Putt homestead near his sawmill, a property of sixty-two acres of fertile land, furnished with good, substantial buildings, that barn having been erected in 1897. In 1901 he purchased another sawmill, which he has operated to the present time, employing from five to ten men, and in addition he owns several dwellings in Robesonia, which he has rented. Mr. Moyer married, Sept. 19, 1885, Annie Hoover, daughter of Benjamin and Emma (Fox) Hoover, and to them eight children were born: Harvey D., born July 10, 1886; Calvin L., April 29, 1888 (died Oct. 8, 1889); Frederick A., Jan. 18, 1889; Benjamin F., Sept. 23, 1892; Charles W., Nov. 25, 1894; Emma M., Feb. 8, 1900; an infant daughter; and Virgie S., Jan. 3, 1903. Mrs. Moyer died March 28, 1908. Mr. Moyer is a well known Lutheran member of St. Daniel's Church, near Robesonia, to which Mrs. Moyer also belonged.