Forwarded from BOEHLER-L mail list ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Merz" <hessian@sympatico.ca> To: <BOEHLER-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Monday, October 04, 2004 7:56 PM Subject: [BOEHLER] Re: Jacob BEHLER - BOEHLER. > Hello BOEHLER researchers; > > Since I mentioned this Nova Scotia settler Jacob BUHLER/BIEHLER > or BOEHLER, I would like to add a bit more information. > In my own research of Hessian soldiers of the American Revolution, > I published in 1994 a book "The Hessians of Nova Scotia" and on > page 47 I have the following: > > BUEHLER, Jacob. (Biehler/Buhler) K-19 Kassel Regt. von Knoblauch. > > S#124map: Buehler, Jacob, registered on lot 24, Waldeck Line, Bear River, > Clements Ts., Nova Scotia. > S#124p40: Captain Jacob Buehler, 3 persons, entitled to 700 acres, > received 300 acres at Clements Ts. > > S#126p36: Jacob Buhler, 300 acres, landgrant in Clements Ts. > p.153: The 1858 Township Tax Assessment Roll shows many > BEELER and BUEL families. > > S#1 (Virginia DeMarce)p77: Buhler, Jacob. A wife and one child, > Captain of the King's Militia in Georgia until the year 1782, when on > the evacuation of the Province (Georgia) he was obliged to leave his > estate and attach himself to the Regt. de Knoblauch in quality of a > sutler. Recommended by Hessian General Lossberg for a landgrant > in Nova Scotia. (Carleton Papers, Item 8737) > Jacob Boehler (Calnek); Jacob Biehler, 1791 Tax list Clements Ts.; > left descendants there (Calnek); Came 1770 to Ebenezer, Georgia, > married before 1775 (see "Evidence on the Claim of Jacob Buhler", > Report of Ontaria Archives, p.48). Captured and exchanged, Captain > of Mounted Militia (see Memorial of Capt. Jacob Buhler, Nova Scotoa > Land Papers, PANS, quoted in Sutherlamd's "Clements Township", > pages 28-29. > > S#108 (Calnek-History of the County of Annapolis (1897), Mika Reprint): > p.246: Named on 1784 list of Clements Ts., Annapolis County, N.S., > p247/48: The Grandchildren of the bluff old German Jacob Boehler, are > to be found in this their native Township (Calnek). > p251: Biehler, Jacob, and Biehler, Nicholas, on 1791 Taxlist. > p.255: Biehler, Jacob, had cleared 6 1/2 acres of land in 1805. > > The above was quoted from my book "The Hessians of Nova Scotia", > which covered 235 men who settled in that Province. A copy can be found > in many Nova Scotia Genealogical and Historical Societies and at the > Provincial Archives of Nova Scotia in Halifax. > John Helmut Merz > (no connection to my wife's Boehler Line) > > > There was a BOEHLER line which settled after the American > > Revolution in Nova Scotia. Originally came from Ebenezer, Georgia, > > was known as Jacob BOEHLER and Jacob BIEHLER, and even as > > Jacob BUHLER. If you have a chance to find a copy of the book > > "German Military Settlers in Canada", by Virginia DeMarce, > > published in 1984, on page 77 you find more about this man. > > > > > ==== BOEHLER Mailing List ==== > To post messages you may write in English or German or both. > Sie koennen Ihre Mitteilungen in Deutsch oder Englisch auf die > Liste geben. Someone will translate upon request. >