Dear subscribers so much interested in the Hessian soldiers in your County - Thanks to the PML Service of the Rootsweb mailing lists, I have seen in the last few hours a number of postings going over your list. Here in the last one I see the name of one of my own subscribers, Earlene Babcock, mentioned, who did research her ancestor Henrich LILLER and wrote a book about her Hessian ancestry. Personally I am surprised that there exists so much confusion about these German auxiliary troops who were send over by the British king to fight the uprising in America. There are countless books written about it, and there are hundreds of thousands descendants of those Hessians who remained in America after the Revolution. I would suggest that whoever is interested should read up in the mail list archives of my mail list AMREV-HESSIANS-L@rootsweb.com you'll find at http://archiver.rootsweb.com/AMREV-HESSIANS-L (month by month) or http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=amrev-hessians With my best wishes, John Helmut Merz > Source: MDALLEGA-L@rootsweb.com > Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] Hessians in Allegany Co. > > Well, it seems besides my Sullivan line of questions and mines. That another > ancestor came from the Hessians and settled in Hampshire Co. Va/WV along > Patterson Creek. This would be my Liller descendants. Much has been written by a > woman named Earlene Babcock who published a family genealogy book on the > Lillers....the book is in the Moorefield library. She has an email thru the > Hardy/Hamphire rootswebsite. > > Tracy >