Hi Kay, What area of Germany are you talking about? Bobbi ----- Original Message ----- To: <[email protected]> Sent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 10:29 PM Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Modern German states > > This is interesting. What was going on in Germany in 1720 - 1740??? > > Kay >

I'm not sure but story has it that my ancestor, Martin Brandt was from the Stuggart area. KAY -----Original Message----- From: Bobbi <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Sat, Jan 16, 2010 10:03 pm Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Modern German states Hi Kay, What area of Germany are you talking about? Bobbi ---- Original Message ----- o: <[email protected]> ent: Saturday, January 16, 2010 10:29 PM ubject: Re: [G-P-L] Modern German states This is interesting. What was going on in Germany in 1720 - 1740??? Kay or all the latest News, please visit our Homepage: http://www.germanyroots.com Please visit and participate in our new forum ttp://www.germanyroots.com/phpBB3/ ------------------------------ o unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to [email protected] ith the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of he message =

Hi Kay, In 1726 England hired Hessians, and the following year England paid Hesse an annual retainer of 125000 Pounds to be allowed first call on Hessian troops in any future emergency. Also, plague was a periodic problem from the mid-fourteenth Century on. You also had epidemics of typhus and other epidemic diseases. At times due to these diseases, village populations could drop almost 50%. Bobbi ----- Original Message ----- To: <[email protected]> Sent: Sunday, January 17, 2010 12:03 AM Subject: Re: [G-P-L] Modern German states > > I'm not sure but story has it that my ancestor, Martin Brandt was from the > Stuggart area. > KAY