Hello Cliff, ain't that the pits - for many years I have tried to get subscribers of my Hessenland list to provide me with names of soldiers from their particular town or village - and with a few exceptions nobody bothered. Myself never sorted those 6000 soldiers out, who stayed here, other than alphabethically, except once when writing about "The Hessians of Nova Scotia", because in my belief that those Hessians somehow stuck together in a new land, I looked at everyone's place of birth, wasn't to hard, there were only 235 of them. And guess what, there was one from Biedenkopf, but the funny part was, he served with the Anhalt-Zerbst troops. His name was Johann Ludwig WAMBACH, and he was from Biedenkopf-Breidenstein. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Cliff Thompson" <cfthomp@friend.ly.net> To: "John Merz" <hessian@sympatico.ca> Sent: Monday, October 25, 2004 3:58 PM Subject: Re: Prussian soldiers from Hesse-Darmstadt > Hi John, > Thanks. I also some some spellings going back to about 1690 of Briol and > Pruhl. > I would like to know if there were any Hessians who fought in the American > Revolution who were from the Town of Biedenkopf, Hesse-Darmstadt, Germany. > Cliff > > John Merz wrote: > > > Hello Cliff; > > there is no way that I could help you with the little you are > > telling me. What list are you talking about, what time are you > > looking at, where was your ancestor found, etc., etc. > > If you read or subscribe to lists the only way to get help is to > > post clear questions to a list, or a Message Board, with as much > > detail as you know. > > Cheers, > > John > > btw. Bruehl could be Bruell, Broehl, Broell. > > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Cliff Thompson" <cfthomp@friend.ly.net> > > To: <hessian@sympatico.ca> > > Sent: Sunday, October 24, 2004 4:21 PM > > Subject: Prussian soldiers from Hesse-Darmstadt > > > > > Hi John, > > > I'm relatively new to this list and realize that you are > > > more-or-less retired. My request is a quicky, I am searching my BRÜHL > > > ancestors and mostly this is done thru a person who has been translating > > > church records from Biedenkopf, Hesse-Darmstadt. So far, only one person > > > has turned up with the occupation of "soldier". I tried to determine if > > > the area of Biedenkopf was used to supply Hessians > > > to King George during the American Revolution with no luck. Would you > > > please address this subject??? > > > Cliff Thompson