Dear Patricia, I would be amiss if I would not tell your story to our AmRev Hessians mail list, and I don't think you mind. When you read my postings of earlier days you will notice that all of my reserach material is now located at the S.A.R. Library in Louisville, Kentucky, together with some other Hessian research material of others. You may find help there (or from the subscribers of this list. Good luck and happy searching, John Helmut Merz Hamilton, Ontario, Canada. ----- Original Message ----- From: <pgrivers@comcast.net> To: "John Merz" <hessian@sympatico.ca> Sent: Saturday, December 04, 2004 10:26 AM > John, > I just came across your Am. Rev. Hessian list last night and was very interested in it. > > My ancestor, Ludwig George, is found in the > > Passenger and Immigration Index, 1500s-1900s > Place: North America Year: 1779 > Primary immigrant: George, Ludwig > Permanent entry number: 143357 > Accession number: 9220834 > Source publication code: 3067.30 > Source publication page number: 60 > Source publication: HESSISCHE TRUPPEN IM AMERIKANISCHEN UNABHAENGIGKEITSKRIEG (HETRINA): Index nach Familiennamen. (Marburg: Archivschule) (Veroeffentlichungen der Archivschule Marburg, Institut fuer Archivwissenschaft, Nr. 10). Band I. Marburg, 1976; Auflage, 1984. > Source annotation: Hessian Troops in the American War for Independence: An Index According to Surname. Date and place of entry in unit books. Year of birth, place of origin, rank, unit, category of presentation, and archive code of the source are also provided. > Source: Passenger and Immigration Lists Index > (www.genealogy.com) > > This is where he has been proven for DAR with one problem, his name is listed as Gottleib George! > The National Society of the Daughters of the American Revolution Volume 16 > page 12 > Mrs. Celeste George Wienges. > DAR ID Number: 155040 > Born in Lexington, S. C. > Wife of Othneil Henry Wienges. > Descendant of Gotleib George, as follows: > 1. Samuel B. George (b. 1871) m. 1896 Olga Hendrix (b. 1871). > 2. E. J. George (b. 1848) m. 1870 Bedia Taylor (1848-1918). > 3. Samuel George (1804-62) m. 1830 Susannah Kleckley (1811-88). > 4. Gotlieb George m. Anna Burkett (1762-1805). > Gotleib George (1760-1838) served as private in the South Carolina troops. He was born in Switzerland; died in Lexington County, S. C. > > **Gotlieb George is listed on the Granby Chapter NSDAR Patriot List of Lexington, SC.** No one in the contemporary George family can find any records with his name as Gotleib--we believe this was incorrectly accepted. The father of Susannah Kleckley was Gotleib Kleckley. So I want to prove my ancestry anew for DAR correctly and then I can use it for your organization, also. > > This happens to be some family lore about his coming to fight in the Am. Rev: > > From Michael J. George, Genforum post of 3/18/00 #1808 of George Genealogy Forum: > New Information: From John Rister, grandson of Ludwig George, written April 29,1901. This ancestor of the George families of Lexington County, SC left his mothers home in the Province of Hesse, at the age of 18. (He was born in Switzerland before his parents came down the Rhine to a new home). He was intercepted near the family spring and was not allowed to tell his mother of his capture by Hessian soldiers hired by their Emperor to the British, to be used to whip the Americans, and most were brought over by force. He sailed with an expedition that landed in Charleston, SC while the city was in the possession of the British. (Beginning May 12,1780-Dec.14,1782) He was forced into the British lines but escaped the first night with many others. He crossed the Ashley River and joined the American forces. Next we find him at the battle of Kings Mt. Oct 7, 1780, then at the battle of Cowpens,SC Jan 17,1781 and last at the battle of Eutaw Springs, SC Sept.8,1781, the last major battle in SC of the American Revolution. He was paid off in a bounty grant of 100 acres in Georgetown County but found out it was in the marsh lands and never went to see it. He settled in the Dutch Fork and was attracted there by the German Lutherans. Near the present Zion Lutheran Church he fought a saber duel with a Mr. Drear. He married Anna M. Burkett on the eighth day of XX 1783 in Broad River Township. She died in 1807. In 1810 he married Mary Earheart (Areheart) at the old Saluda Factory, about 3 miles NW of Columbia. On a farm now known as the Cumalander place, about 2 miles east of Chapin, SC, he lived out his life and was placed in an unmarked grave in 1848. > > So that is why I would like to subscribe to your group. Can you advise me what papers I may need to prove lineage for your society. Thank you very much for your time. > > Patricia George Rivers > 640 Edmonds Drive > Charleston, SC 29412 > pgrivers@comcast.net >