Hi Bob and List members, Wow! this is just exactly what I wanted. Because of copyrights I need to ask if I may use your email exactly as it is with of course your private address removed... on my website. I believe I'll head it as Hessian Soldier - Myth and Truth! "The Hessian Mercenaries" What the unknowing call the "Hülfstruppen" or "Auxillary Troops." I would then copy paste the entire email below this.. Please do understand that I do not call them "Mercenaries"...LOL I learned that from the list and John. I do know that not enough people understand the difference.. that's one of the reasons for this enquiry... Thank you so much Nelda descendant of Johann Jacob Bonstein a Hessian soldier Nelda L. Percival nee Gilpin, IBSSG Beatty #005 & #10; Graves #231 & #105 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/

Nelda -- Sorry, but I can not agree to let you use that posting on your website. The tabular information I resented was from memory and therefore not reliable. There already is too much erroneous information on the internet without my posting adding to the pile.. Edward J. Lowell, The Hessians and the other German Auxilaiaries of Great Britain in the Revolutionary War (New York: Harpers & Brothers, 1884) Provides the following numbers in Appendix D. Hesse-Cassel: 1776 12,805 1777 403 [This number should be 497 plus 29 women and 12 children, total 538] 1778 none 1779 993 1780 915 1781 915 1782 961 Total 16,992 Brunswick [Braunscheig] 1776 4,300 1777 224 1778 475 1779 286 1780 266 1781 none 1782 172 [This number should be 224 plus 3 women] Total 5.723 Anspach-Bayreuth 1777 1,285 [this number should be 1342 plus 62 women, total 1404] 1778 318 1779 157 1780 152 1781 205 [This number should be 115] 1782 236 [This number should be 235 plus 3 servants and 9 women, 1 man deserted before they left Bremerlehe] Total 2,353 Hesse-Hanau Prior 2,038 1781 50 1782 334 Total 2,422 Waldeck 1776 670 1777 89 1778 140 1779 23 1780 none 1781 144 1782 159 Total 1,225 Anhalt-Zerbst 1778 600 1779 82 1780 50 1781 420 1782 none [The 420 men listed in 1781 may have come in 1782 as A-Z troops were in the 1782 transport] Total 1,152 I have annotated a few lines where I have other numbers. Rodney Atwood, The Hessians : mercenaries from Hessen-Kassel in the American Revolution (New York & Cambridge, Eng.: Cambridge University Press, 1980) is the expert on the troops from Hesse-Cassel and has different numbers. i don't own that volume but you should be able to get it via interlibrary loan. If I am not mistaken, it was recently reissued as a trade paperback. Lowell's book is now dated but still a worthwhile read: http://www.americanrevolution.org/hessindex.html By doing your homework, you should be able to write your own explanation for your website. I assure you it will be more meaningful to you than any cut and paste job. Bob Brooks ----- Original Message ----- From: Nelda Percival To: AMREV-HESSIANS-L@rootsweb.com Sent: Sunday, September 26, 2004 6:14 PM Subject: Re: [HESSIAN] Hessian Soldier - Myth and Truth! Hi Bob and List members, Wow! this is just exactly what I wanted. Because of copyrights I need to ask if I may use your email exactly as it is with of course your private address removed... on my website. I believe I'll head it as Hessian Soldier - Myth and Truth! "The Hessian Mercenaries" What the unknowing call the "Hülfstruppen" or "Auxillary Troops." I would then copy paste the entire email below this.. Please do understand that I do not call them "Mercenaries"...LOL I learned that from the list and John. I do know that not enough people understand the difference.. that's one of the reasons for this enquiry... Thank you so much Nelda descendant of Johann Jacob Bonstein a Hessian soldier Nelda L. Percival nee Gilpin, IBSSG Beatty #005 & #10; Graves #231 & #105 http://freepages.genealogy.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/ ==== AMREV-HESSIANS Mailing List ==== The Source HETRINA has been discussed more often than anything else, you find the explanations by checking our key word archive http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=amrev-hessians You can find it by typing in "26 feb 1999" and look for HETRINA. Or check the Threaded Archives for February 1999 - Hetrina publication.