HiNow see wasn't/isn't this a good discussion? The more we share about the HESSIANs the more everyone learns. I'd think that the ability to read the bible probably became the reason, most people of any rank, any country, started learning to read and write.. Nelda L. Percival, Administrator of Y-DNA surname projects Gilpin, Cupp, Bonstein and Gillock My Genealogy - http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/index.htm GeneticGenealogy - http://www.geneticsand.us Blog - http://aircastles-lets-talk.blogspot.com/ GilpinGenetics: http://www.gilpingenetics.us/ Web Mistress for LCRG - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~molcgdrg > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Fetters > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 11:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AMREV-HESSIANS] Reading and Writing > > My ancestor, Johann Henrich HAMMER (JHH), was the son of a former soldier, > from the very small towns of Ibra and Machtlos, Hessen Kassel. He came as a > Private to America, and was captured at Trenton. After a prisoner exchange, > he returned to his Regiment, was made a Corporal, and in 1782, decided to > stay here and deserted to the American side. In the Hessian triangle of > Pennsylvania, where he had served his time as a prisoner, he married a > Julianna DUBBS/TOOPS. He became a teacher and minister of both the Lutheran > and Reformed faiths. In a bio that survives, we learned that JHH was taught > by his Reformed Church Minister i Germany and was certainly well enough > educated to serve his occupation, at least in German. He even wrote his own > will (again, in German). If my ancestor is any indication, the literacy > and education level was very good for the common soldier. > > Robert A. "Bob" Fetters >

Hello - I second the question about the ''German triangle''. Can someone elaborate on that? Great discussion. Does anyone know where land was promised to deserting Hessian Soldiers? My family legend says our first Baer (Bar) was given land in Pennsylvania as a trade for allegiance to the Colonies. We assumed it was after the war but we aren't sure. Maybe he was a deserter? John's list has one Bar from Bayreuth that deserted but there is a disconnect somewhere. My Baers come from Perry Co Pa - some still there today- - they were wagon makers and farmers but they seem have moved there from somewhere around 1820. Any suggestions? Thanks, Larry Baer -----Original Message----- From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Nelda Percival Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 1:43 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: [AMREV-HESSIANS] Reading and Writing HiNow see wasn't/isn't this a good discussion? The more we share about the HESSIANs the more everyone learns. I'd think that the ability to read the bible probably became the reason, most people of any rank, any country, started learning to read and write.. Nelda L. Percival, Administrator of Y-DNA surname projects Gilpin, Cupp, Bonstein and Gillock My Genealogy - http://freepages.folklore.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/index.htm GeneticGenealogy - http://www.geneticsand.us Blog - http://aircastles-lets-talk.blogspot.com/ GilpinGenetics: http://www.gilpingenetics.us/ Web Mistress for LCRG - http://www.rootsweb.ancestry.com/~molcgdrg > -----Original Message----- > From: [email protected] > [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Bob Fetters > Sent: Monday, April 30, 2012 11:38 AM > To: [email protected] > Subject: [AMREV-HESSIANS] Reading and Writing > > My ancestor, Johann Henrich HAMMER (JHH), was the son of a former > soldier, from the very small towns of Ibra and Machtlos, Hessen > Kassel. He came as a Private to America, and was captured at Trenton. > After a prisoner exchange, he returned to his Regiment, was made a Corporal, and in 1782, decided to > stay here and deserted to the American side. In the Hessian triangle of > Pennsylvania, where he had served his time as a prisoner, he married a > Julianna DUBBS/TOOPS. He became a teacher and minister of both the > Lutheran and Reformed faiths. In a bio that survives, we learned that > JHH was taught by his Reformed Church Minister i Germany and was > certainly well enough educated to serve his occupation, at least in > German. He even wrote his own will (again, in German). If my > ancestor is any indication, the literacy and education level was very good for the common soldier. > > Robert A. "Bob" Fetters > PLEASE CHECK ALL OF YOUR SUBJECTS! ~~~~~~~~~ FOUNDER: John H. Merz 1924-2006 Created 1998 ~~~~~~~~~~~~ http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin ~~~~~~~~~~~~ ADMINISTRATOR<Kerri> [email protected] ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message