Sorry John Ashbury, Seems I got mixed-up for a moment, it was Barry Wetherington who had brought up the subject of the Bodyguards, and not you. Yours was the date of when Hessian prisoners could buy their freedom for 80 Spanish Dollars. I hope you did get your answers. Cheers, John Merz To: <AMREV-HESSIANS-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Thursday, September 02, 2004 11:21 AM > From: "John Merz" <hessian@sympatico.ca> > To: "John Ashbury" <wasps65@earthlink.net>; > John Ashbury - > > while sorting my material in order to transfer it to the SAR, > I came across a reprint of a book by J.G.Rosengarten' History, > titled The German-American Soldier in the Wars of the U.S., > edited by Don Heinrich Tolzmann publ. 1996 by Heritage Books. > It contains a whole chapter on the Washington's Bodyguard's, > and 'Major von Heer's Independent Troop of Horse". > > Since this one is now surplus to me, I have put it on eBay for sale, > under my seller name the-hessian > > Hoping that this will help to clear up the confusion surrounding this > mysterious 'Washington's Bodyguard", > Yours truly > John Merz > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "John Ashbury" <wasps65@earthlink.net> > > Sent: Saturday, August 28, 2004 5:41 AM > > Subject: Re: PML Search: Hessians- buying their 'Freedom'. > > > > > Could you please cite a source for your date of 1782? > > > Thanks, > > > John > Please check the archives first, your answer may be there. > http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=amrev-hessians > http://archiver.rootsweb.com/AMREV-HESSIANS-L > This list was started by Johannes Helmut Merz, Hessian researcher. >