Forwarded from the Rootsweb Message Board GERBIG: Subject: Wilhelm GERBIG, Brunswick soldier of the American Revolution. Author: John Helmut Merz Date: 15 Jul 2004 11:37 PM GMT While checking through all 23 messages of this Board I did not find a mentioning of this Wilhelm (William) GERBIG, a soldier of the Brunswick Regiment von Rhetz, who served in Canada during the American Revolution 1776-1783 and was discharged in 1783 in Quebec. He was born appr. 1755/56 in Obersdorf, Silesia (now Polish territory) according to the military files, and still single in 1784 when he settled with a group of former German auxiliary soldiers in the Fifth Township, Bay of Quinte, Upper Canada, on the shores of Lake Ontario. They arrived on 4. Oct.1784 under the leadership of the Brunswick Lieutenant Baron von Reitzenstein. Wilhelm/William was still listed on the 1796 Roll of Inhabitants in Marysburgh Township, County of Prince Edward, Upper Canada. His name has been found with several variations - GIRBIG, GERBERG, GEOBERG, and once even with a first name of Christopher in connection with a landgrant. I have no further information about him. If there are any descendants out there, I would be happy to hear from them. John Helmut Merz, researching Hessian soldiers of the American Revolution,