Of interest concerning Hessian prisoners. "What I Know About Winchester" (Virginia) By William Greenway Russell --------two buildings among the first erect in town, that of CONRAD CREBS, a wagon-maker by trade, who was brought here by WASHINGTON among the Hessian prisoners. After the battle of Yorktown, he, JOHN SLOAT and JOHN GROVE, were all perhaps that settled here. They were quartered in the stone house now occupied by WASHINGTON SOUTH. CONRAD CREBS had two sons and three daughters; HENRY and JOHN died when young men; one daught married JOHN SMOKE, one GEO. AULICK and the other, JOHN EVERLY. (Conrad Crebs died in 1828) "Cartmell's History" By T. K. Cartmell 1909 Page 499 "Old records show the old CONRAD CREPTS could not have been a poor man when he chose to remain in Winchester and not return with the Hessian prisoners to his old country. his savings of gold coin, paid by England for his three years services, must have been hoarded by him; and when the war closed, he was virtually a rich man among the people who had nothing but worthless scrip for money." CONRAD CREBS/CREPTS owned a number of properties and buildings in Winchester, Frederick County, Virginia during his lifetime.