Thank you, Barry, for your kind offer of mailing CD to interested Hessian researchers. Bruce Burgoyne's research material has gone or is going to the S.A.R. Library in Louisville, Kentucky (so I have been told), and mine has gone to the same institution, meaning that I have retired from Hessian AmRev soldier's research, although I am still running this mail list. Will bring your posting in two parts, this being part 1: ----- Original Message ----- From: "Barry Wetherington" <cbarrfly@comcast.net> Sent: Monday, November 08, 2004 5:40 PM Subject: Many Mueller Wirth Winter Rev War Hessians Fm CD Heritage Books Collection Vol 1, Bruce E Burgoyne I know nothing more - thought there were refs for me (see Muellers below) - none. If the Hessian-L ListHost (or other Hessian researcher) will send me a pre addressed & stamped env, I'll send the CD in box free. Barry Wetherington Barry Wetherington PO Box 1208 Birmingham MI 48012 248-792-2109 msg 248-563-2577 cel cbarrfly@comcast.net cbarrfly@yahoo.com cbarrywether@hotmail.com cbarrfly@gmail.com MUELLER, Alexander W200827 Born in Holzhausen, Pyrmont, and baptized on 29 May 1750. Father - Alexander M. Sailed to America with the 1779 recruit shipment and was assigned as private in the 4th Company. He deserted on 13 May 1781, after the fall of Pensacola, and may have joined the Spanish army. 94 MUELLER, Andreas W201048 Sailed to America with the 1782 recruit shipment. Assigned as private in the 5th Company. Apparently returned to Germany with unit in 1783. MUELLER, August, Jr. w100021 Sailed to America with the 1782 recruit shipment, having been commissioned an ensign in January 1782, and was assigned to the 5th Company. He apparently returned to Germany with his unit in 1783. MUELLER, Barthold W2009 16 Sailed to America with the 1781 recruit shipment and was assigned as private in the 3rd Company. In July 1782 he was transferred to the 5th Company. He returned to Germany with the regiment and was released at Korbach (W) on 18 October 1783. MUELLER, Christian W200571 Born 1753 in Muehlhausen (W). Evangelical. Smith by trade. Sailed to America with the regiment in 1776 as private in the 5th Company. Taken prisoner at Baton Rouge on 21 September 1779, he died of illness at New Orleans on 28 October 1779. He had 4 years' previous military experience in the Waldeck army. MUELLER, Christian W200645 Date and manner of joining the regiment are uncertain, but by April 1779 he was a private in the 1st Company. Taken prisoner at Baton Rouge on 21 September 1779, he returned to duty in January 1782. He apparently returned to Germany with the regiment in 1783. MUELLER, Christian W201162 Sailed to America with the 1781 recruit shipment and was assigned as private in the 3rd Company. On 13 October 1781 he was taken prisoner while on duty at Paulus Hook, New Jersey, and returned to duty in August 1782. He returned to Germany with the regiment and was released at Korbach (W) on 19 October 1783. MUELLER, Christoph W200081 Born 1751 in Mandern (W). Evangelical. 5'4 l/2" tall. Sailed to America with the regiment in 1776 as private in the 1st Company. He died of illness in the hospital at Manchac on 28 July 1779. MUELLER, Christoph W200333 Born 1759 in Helsen (W). Evangelical. Sailed to America .with the regiment in 1776 as private in the 3rd Company. He died of illness on 2 September 1777. MUELLER, Daniel W200334 Born in 1760 in Armsfeld (W). Evangelical. Sailed to America with the regiment in 1776 as private in the 3rd Company. Taken prisoner at Baton Rouge on 21 September 1779, he transferred to the 5th Company in December 1779. He returned to duty in January 1782, and was transferred back to the 3rd Company in July 1782. He apparently returned to Germany with the regiment in 1783. 95 MUELLER, Daniel Christian W200203 Born 1756 in Schorbuch, Hesse. Reformed. Married. Sailed to America with the regiment in 1776 as private in the 2nd Company. Taken prisoner at Springfield, N.J., on 5 January 1777, he was sent to Philadelphia to be exchanged on 21 June 1778. He was transferred to the 4th Company in December 1779, and back to the 2nd Company in August 1782. On 5 December 1782 he was transferred to the Hesse Cassel Knyphausen Regiment from which he had deserted in Germany in 1776. MUELLER, Franz W200572 Born 1761 in Reitzenhagen (W). Evangelical. Sailed to America with the regiment in 1776 as private in the 5th Company. Taken prisoner at Baton Rouge on 21 September 1779, he deserted from prisoner status at New Orleans on 11 July 1780 and joined the Spanish army. He then deserted back to his regiment on 10 April 1781, from the Spanish army besieging Pensacola. In July 1782 he was transferred to the 3rd Company, and apparently returned to Germany with the regiment in 1783. MUELLER, Franz W200918 Sailed to America with the 1781 recruit shipment and was assigned as medic in the 3rd Company. In July 1782 he was transferred to the 1st Company, and apparently returned to Germany with the regiment in 1783. MUELLER, Friedrich W200573 Born 1748 in Buedingen, Ysenburg. Evangelical (also listed as Reformed). 5'4 l/2" tall. Paper maker 'by trade. Sailed to America with the regiment in 1776 as private in the 5th Company. Apparently taken prisoner at Baton Rouge on 21 September 1779, he deserted from prisoner status at New Orleans on 24 June 1780. He had 3 years and 3 months of previous military experience with the Waldeck 1st Regiment. MUELLER, Friedrich w201049 Born 1766 in Arolsen (W). Sailed to America with the 1782 recruit shipment as a free corporal and was assigned to the 5th Company. He returned to Germany with the regiment in 1783. He sailed to the Cape of Good Hope as the captain commanding the 2nd Company of the 5th Waldeck Battalion, then in Dutch service, in 1802. He had served 1 year 10 months as a free corporal, 8 years 11 months as a 2nd lieutenant, and 8 years 1 month as a 1st lieutenant prior to his promotion to captain on 18 May 1802. Wounded during the Wars of the First Coalition in the late eighteenth century, he was wounded again in the fighting in South Africa. MUELLER, Georg w200919 Sailed to America with the 1781 recruit shipment and was assigned as private in the 3rd Company. He returned to Germany with the regiment and was released at Korbach (W) on 20 October 1783. 96 MUELLER, Henrich W200204 Born 1756/57 in Sachsenhausen (W). Evangelical. 5'5" tall. Sailed to America with the regiment in 1776 as private in the 2nd Company. He was transferred to the 4th Company in December 1779, and back to the 2nd Company in June 1782. He apparently returned to Germany with the regiment in 1783. MUELLER, Henrich W200442 Born 1753 in Katzenfort, Braunfels. Cabinet maker by trade. Sailed to America with the regiment in 1776 as private in the 4th Company. He was wounded in the attack on Fort Washington on 16 November 1776, and deserted on 6 April 1777. MUELLER, Henrich Karl Christian W200080 Born 1753 in Korbach (W). Evangelical. Sailed to America with the regiment in 1776 as volunteer in the 1st Company. On 2 December 1776 he was released from the regiment. He joined the 3rd Company of the Hesse Cassel Donop Regiment as a free corporal in March 1777. He was transferred to the 2nd Company of that regiment in May 1778, and released in America in February 1779. MUELLER, Johann Peter W200443 Born 1755 in Ober Urff, Hesse. Evangelical. 5'3 3/4" tall. Sailed to America with the regiment in 1776 as private in the 4th Company. By April 1779 he had been promoted to corporal. He boarded the Santa Rosalia on 29 May 1781 to return to New York after the capitulation of Pensacola. He served throughout the war in the 4th Company, and was released at Flatbush on 15 July 1783. He had 4 years' previous military experience in Holland, probably in a Waldeck unit. MUELLER, Johannes W200205 Born 1753 in Schlitz, Goertz. Evangelical. Sailed to America with the regiment in 1776 as private in the 2nd Company. Taken prisoner at Springfield, New Jersey, on 5 January 1777, he deserted from prisoner status on 1 August 1778. MUELLER, Johannes W200674 Born in Gemmingen. Date and manner of joining the regiment are uncertain, but by April 1779 he was a private in the 3rd Company. He deserted at Pensacola on 1 April 1781. MUELLER, Karl W200082 Born 1752 in Korbach (W). Evangelical. Sailed to America with the regiment in 1776 as private in the 1st Company. He had deserted on 16 May 1776 but rejoined the regiment on 31 May. He was wounded in the fighting in New Jersey in January 1777, and taken prisoner at Baton Rouge on 21 September 1779. He died of illness, while in prisoner status, on 9 July 1780. He had 8 years' previous military experience in the Waldeck army. 97 To be continued