There is a multi-volume German compilation in major US libraries called "Hetrina" detailing the Hessian soldiers unit records (enlistment and service). There is also a quarterly publication by the Johannes Schwalm foundation which has a lot of information on the Hessians soldiers who stayed in America. I subscribed for a couple years as I have one who was a prisoner of war at the Hessian barracks in Frederick MD and married a local girl. They lived across the river in Loudoun Co. VA. The area had been settled by many Germans so the Hessians blended in very well. If you want the name and address of the Schwalm publication, I can dig it out of my file - Ruth Illinois ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Ann Shoemaker" <maryshoe@cox.net> To: <MD-FRED-GEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 4:08 PM Subject: Re: [MDFred] hessian soldiers and bachman valley > Thanks for replying.. I am looking for my ancestor Johann Sebastion > Schuechen, name became early on Sebastion Shehan. He was in what is now > Nelson Co. KY (then VA) by 1788 when thre were still some Indian raids. > > There is a Hessian soldier with that exact name so.. wondering.. The > Ambrose family of Frederick Co. MD settled in the "Germantown" area near > present day Bardstown, Nelson Co. KY in the same time frame as my Sebastion > Shehan. > > However.. there is also in one of the PA Newspaper where in 1786 a Jacob > Fisher, school teachers of Berks Co.PA is inquiring of the whereabouts of > Johanne Sebastion Schuechen... and Jacob Duch...... > They left Amsterdam on such and such a date came from etc.. great > information if.. this is definitely my Sebastion. There is no question of > the name of my ancestor.. Johann Sebastion Schuechen.. > > Enough. > Thanks. > mary ann > ----- Original Message ----- > From: <Twarogk@aol.com> > To: <MD-FRED-GEN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 4:18 PM > Subject: [MDFred] hessian soldiers and bachman valley > > > > I don't know, personally, of anyone who has researched the Hessian > soliders > > who were, first, prisoners-of-war in Frederick County, and then decided > > [either during or just after the Revolutionary War] to become citizens in > the > > new United States of America. > > I believe that many of them finally lived in Bachman Valley, in the > > upper northeast part of old Frederick County. Today, that is in Carroll > > County, MD. Someone at the Carroll County Historical Society said that > the > > names, at least, of some of them are listed in one of the Frederick County > > publications. > > > > My family lived near them but was not one of those families. I > > believe that there is a Lutheran Church in Bachman Valley that was founded > or > > attended by the former soldiers. I think many married the daughters of > > families in the area or, perhaps, in some instances, made arrangements for > > their own families to come to the area.. > > > > It would be a fascinating bit of American history..good luck. > > > > > > ==== MD-FRED-GEN Mailing List ==== > > The OFFICIAL website for this list is: > > http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/MD/frederick/ > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > ==== MD-FRED-GEN Mailing List ==== > Have you tried looking at the Washington County, Maryland site at: > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdwashin/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237

I would appreciate the name and address of the publication if it is not too much of a problem Thanks. Mary Ann ----- Original Message ----- From: "Ruth L. Dunlap" <rdunlap@tsf.net> To: <MD-FRED-GEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 12:42 AM Subject: Re: [MDFred] hessian soldiers and bachman valley > There is a multi-volume German compilation in major US libraries called > "Hetrina" detailing the Hessian soldiers unit records (enlistment and > service). > > There is also a quarterly publication by the Johannes Schwalm foundation > which has a lot of information on the Hessians soldiers who stayed in > America. I subscribed for a couple years as I have one who was a prisoner > of war at the Hessian barracks in Frederick MD and married a local girl. > They lived across the river in Loudoun Co. VA. The area had been settled by > many Germans so the Hessians blended in very well. > > If you want the name and address of the Schwalm publication, I can dig it > out of my file - > Ruth > Illinois > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Mary Ann Shoemaker" <maryshoe@cox.net> > To: <MD-FRED-GEN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 4:08 PM > Subject: Re: [MDFred] hessian soldiers and bachman valley > > > > Thanks for replying.. I am looking for my ancestor Johann Sebastion > > Schuechen, name became early on Sebastion Shehan. He was in what is now > > Nelson Co. KY (then VA) by 1788 when thre were still some Indian raids. > > > > There is a Hessian soldier with that exact name so.. wondering.. The > > Ambrose family of Frederick Co. MD settled in the "Germantown" area near > > present day Bardstown, Nelson Co. KY in the same time frame as my > Sebastion > > Shehan. > > > > However.. there is also in one of the PA Newspaper where in 1786 a Jacob > > Fisher, school teachers of Berks Co.PA is inquiring of the whereabouts of > > Johanne Sebastion Schuechen... and Jacob Duch...... > > They left Amsterdam on such and such a date came from etc.. great > > information if.. this is definitely my Sebastion. There is no question of > > the name of my ancestor.. Johann Sebastion Schuechen.. > > > > Enough. > > Thanks. > > mary ann > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: <Twarogk@aol.com> > > To: <MD-FRED-GEN-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 4:18 PM > > Subject: [MDFred] hessian soldiers and bachman valley > > > > > > > I don't know, personally, of anyone who has researched the Hessian > > soliders > > > who were, first, prisoners-of-war in Frederick County, and then decided > > > [either during or just after the Revolutionary War] to become citizens > in > > the > > > new United States of America. > > > I believe that many of them finally lived in Bachman Valley, in > the > > > upper northeast part of old Frederick County. Today, that is in Carroll > > > County, MD. Someone at the Carroll County Historical Society said that > > the > > > names, at least, of some of them are listed in one of the Frederick > County > > > publications. > > > > > > My family lived near them but was not one of those families. I > > > believe that there is a Lutheran Church in Bachman Valley that was > founded > > or > > > attended by the former soldiers. I think many married the daughters of > > > families in the area or, perhaps, in some instances, made arrangements > for > > > their own families to come to the area.. > > > > > > It would be a fascinating bit of American history..good luck. > > > > > > > > > ==== MD-FRED-GEN Mailing List ==== > > > The OFFICIAL website for this list is: > > > http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/MD/frederick/ > > > > > > ============================== > > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, > > go to: > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > ==== MD-FRED-GEN Mailing List ==== > > Have you tried looking at the Washington County, Maryland site at: > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdwashin/ > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > ==== MD-FRED-GEN Mailing List ==== > The OFFICIAL website for this list is: > http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/MD/frederick/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > >

"Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, Inc." Box 99, Pennsauken NJ 08110 (subscription price is not given, but has probably gone up since 1991 when I subscribed) published quarterly Statement says: The Johannnes Schwalm Historical Association, Inc. is a non-profit organization dedicated to researching, collecting and disseminating data relating to German auxilliaries to the British Crown who fought in the Revolutionary War and their descendants. All objects, documents, books and materials owned by the Association are available for research and examination by the public at Lancaster County Historical Society in Pennsylvania, which is the official depository of the Association's records. References given in one of the articles include: "Hessische Truppen im Amerikanischen Unabhaengigkeitskrieg" (Hetrina) in German but names, etc. can be read. Gives the birth year and village from Hessian records. Available in major libraries. "The Settlement of Former Auxiliary Troops in Canada After the American Revolution" by Virginia Easly Demarce German-American Genealogical Research Monograph No. 5" by Clifford Neal Smith Ruth Illinois ----- Original Message ----- From: "Mary Ann Shoemaker" <maryshoe@cox.net> To: <MD-FRED-GEN-L@rootsweb.com> Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 8:28 AM Subject: Re: [MDFred] hessian soldiers and bachman valley > I would appreciate the name and address of the publication if it is not too > much of a problem > Thanks. > Mary Ann > ----- Original Message ----- > From: "Ruth L. Dunlap" <rdunlap@tsf.net> > To: <MD-FRED-GEN-L@rootsweb.com> > Sent: Wednesday, June 05, 2002 12:42 AM > Subject: Re: [MDFred] hessian soldiers and bachman valley > > > > There is a multi-volume German compilation in major US libraries called > > "Hetrina" detailing the Hessian soldiers unit records (enlistment and > > service). > > > > There is also a quarterly publication by the Johannes Schwalm foundation > > which has a lot of information on the Hessians soldiers who stayed in > > America. I subscribed for a couple years as I have one who was a prisoner > > of war at the Hessian barracks in Frederick MD and married a local girl. > > They lived across the river in Loudoun Co. VA. The area had been settled > by > > many Germans so the Hessians blended in very well. > > > > If you want the name and address of the Schwalm publication, I can dig it > > out of my file - > > Ruth > > Illinois > > ----- Original Message ----- > > From: "Mary Ann Shoemaker" <maryshoe@cox.net> > > To: <MD-FRED-GEN-L@rootsweb.com> > > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 4:08 PM > > Subject: Re: [MDFred] hessian soldiers and bachman valley > > > > > > > Thanks for replying.. I am looking for my ancestor Johann Sebastion > > > Schuechen, name became early on Sebastion Shehan. He was in what is > now > > > Nelson Co. KY (then VA) by 1788 when thre were still some Indian > raids. > > > > > > There is a Hessian soldier with that exact name so.. wondering.. The > > > Ambrose family of Frederick Co. MD settled in the "Germantown" area near > > > present day Bardstown, Nelson Co. KY in the same time frame as my > > Sebastion > > > Shehan. > > > > > > However.. there is also in one of the PA Newspaper where in 1786 a Jacob > > > Fisher, school teachers of Berks Co.PA is inquiring of the whereabouts > of > > > Johanne Sebastion Schuechen... and Jacob Duch...... > > > They left Amsterdam on such and such a date came from etc.. great > > > information if.. this is definitely my Sebastion. There is no question > of > > > the name of my ancestor.. Johann Sebastion Schuechen.. > > > > > > Enough. > > > Thanks. > > > mary ann > > > ----- Original Message ----- > > > From: <Twarogk@aol.com> > > > To: <MD-FRED-GEN-L@rootsweb.com> > > > Sent: Tuesday, June 04, 2002 4:18 PM > > > Subject: [MDFred] hessian soldiers and bachman valley > > > > > > > > > > I don't know, personally, of anyone who has researched the Hessian > > > soliders > > > > who were, first, prisoners-of-war in Frederick County, and then > decided > > > > [either during or just after the Revolutionary War] to become citizens > > in > > > the > > > > new United States of America. > > > > I believe that many of them finally lived in Bachman Valley, in > > the > > > > upper northeast part of old Frederick County. Today, that is in > Carroll > > > > County, MD. Someone at the Carroll County Historical Society said > that > > > the > > > > names, at least, of some of them are listed in one of the Frederick > > County > > > > publications. > > > > > > > > My family lived near them but was not one of those families. > I > > > > believe that there is a Lutheran Church in Bachman Valley that was > > founded > > > or > > > > attended by the former soldiers. I think many married the daughters > of > > > > families in the area or, perhaps, in some instances, made arrangements > > for > > > > their own families to come to the area.. > > > > > > > > It would be a fascinating bit of American history..good luck. > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== MD-FRED-GEN Mailing List ==== > > > > The OFFICIAL website for this list is: > > > > http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/MD/frederick/ > > > > > > > > ============================== > > > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > > records, > > > go to: > > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > > > > > > > ==== MD-FRED-GEN Mailing List ==== > > > Have you tried looking at the Washington County, Maryland site at: > > > http://www.rootsweb.com/~mdwashin/ > > > > > > ============================== > > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy > records, > > go to: > > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > ==== MD-FRED-GEN Mailing List ==== > > The OFFICIAL website for this list is: > > http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/MD/frederick/ > > > > ============================== > > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, > go to: > > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237 > > > > > > > ==== MD-FRED-GEN Mailing List ==== > The OFFICIAL website for this list is: > http://midatlantic.rootsweb.com/MD/frederick/ > > ============================== > To join Ancestry.com and access our 1.2 billion online genealogy records, go to: > http://www.ancestry.com/rd/redir.asp?targetid=571&sourceid=1237