The American Historical Review
Vol. 1, No. 4 (Jul., 1896), pp. 650-670
Tuesday, July 31, 2018
Hessian Renegades
1716 or the Hessian Renegades is a short silent film directed by D W Griffith in 1909. It tells the story of an American soldier carrying a message about a British Invasion who escapes to a friendly farmhouse.
The Battlefield Ghost
Published originally by Scholastic Press in 1999, The Battlefield Ghost tells the story of a fourth-grade boy and his sister who move into an old house haunted by a Hessian soldier from the Revolutionary War.
An Enemy Among Them
The Hessian's Secret Diary
Ten-year-old Peggy Van Brundt is unsure whether the shadowy figure she sees in her special place near a brook is a soldier. With the Battle of Brooklyn looming, however, Peggy has many other concerns, including the fate of her brothers.
Hannah's Hessian
Hannah's young life in Albany during the American revolution is marked by two absorbing fears: one, she fears the Hessians who are said to be particularly fond of eating small girls; two, she is convinced that she will never be able to learn to read and consequently will not be able to fulfill her promise to her father, that when he returns from war she will read to him from the Bible. Both fears are dispelled when a friendly Hessian wins her confidence and teaches her how to recognize words in the Scriptures. An unusual insight into the mentality of a little girl and an unoppressive historical context recommend this tender story of a child's role in a crucial period of American history.
The Hessian
The book begins with an incident in 1781 when a small detachment of Hessian (German auxiliaries in the British service) soldiers encounter a mentally retarded man, Saul Chamberlain, on a Connecticut hill-side. Chamberlain follows the jagers out of confused curiosity, making meaningless markings on a slate. Misunderstanding the situation, an exasperated Hessian officer with little English becomes convinced that Chamberlain is a spy and has the autistic villager hanged from a tree. Outraged, the local population ambush the Hessians and kill all but a drummer boy who escapes. The narrator of the story: the town physician and a Continental Army veteran, subsequently discovers that the young drummer Hans Pohl is being sheltered in a Quaker family's barn while township authorities hunt for him. Captured, the Hessian boy is tried for murder. Although his role in the earlier death was limited to beating his drum as the hanging took place, Pohl fatally admits that he would have carried out his duty as a soldier and participated directly in the execution if so ordered. The doctor, himself a victim of prejudice as an English-born Catholic in a small Puritan community, watches helplessly while the German boy is hanged.
The Siege of Charleston: Capts. Johann Ewald, Johann Hinrichs, and Maj. Gen. Johann Christoph von Huyn
"Diaries and letters of Hessian officers from the von Jungkenn papers in the William L. Clements Library."
A Hessian Diary of the American Revolution
Private Döhla crossed the Atlantic Ocean in 1777 as a private in the Ansbach-Bayreuth contingent of Hessian mercenaries. His American sojourn began in June 1777 in New York. Then, after several months on Staten Island and Manhatten, the Ansbach-Bayreuth regiments traveled to the thriving seaport of Newport, Rhode Island, where they spent more than a year before the British forces evacuated the area.
The Ansbach-Bayreuth regiments returned briefly to the New York New Jersey area before they were sent to reinforce the English command in Virginia. Eventually Döhla participated in the battle of Yorktown—of which he provides a vivid description—before enduring two years as a prisoner of war after Cornwallis's surrender.
Bruce E. Burgoyne has provided an accurate translation, helpful notes for scholars and general readers, and an introduction on the Ansbach-Bayreuth regiments and the history of Johann Conrad Döhla and his diary. This first edition of the diary in English will delight all who are interested in the American Revolution and the thirteen original colonies.
Thursday, July 26, 2018
Musterregisters in Oberhessen - (Elbenrod)
HStAM Best. 4h Nr. 3493
HStAM Best. 4h Nr.827
Musterrollen der Ämter und Städte Alsfeld, Battenberg, Buseckerthal, Gießen, Grebenau, Itter, Rauschenberg
HStAM
Best. 19a Nr.207
Namenslisten aus den Ämtern Marburg, Alsfeld, Romrod, Kirtorf samt Eußergericht, Gericht Schwarz, Wetter, Königsberg, Battenberg, Grebenau, Nidda, Kellerei Rosbach, Herrschaft Eppstein, Frankenberg samt Wolkersdorf, Kellerei Butzbach, Biedenkopf, Ulrichstein und Gemünden (Wohra)
HStAM Best. 19a Nr.217
Musterregister aus den Ämtern Ulrichstein, Biedenkopf, Butzbach, Allendorf a. d. Lumda, Battenberg, Alsfeld, Kirtorf , Rosenthal, Homberg/Ohm, Rauschenberg, Wolkersdorf, Königsberg, Gemünden, Grebenau, Burggemünden, Romrod, Grafschaft Nidda, Blankenstein, Breidenbacher Grund, Eisenhausen, Gericht Lixfeld, Gericht Kirchhain und Wetter Bitte der Schützen und Schießgesellen in Stadt und Amt Wetter um Zuschüsse aus der Renterei zur Beförderung des Schützenwesens Bitte der Schützenmeister und Schießgesellen in Butzbach an Helwig Geise um Fürsprache bei Landgraf Ludwig um finanzielle Unterstützung Bitte der auf Büchsen und Sturmhüte gesetzten Bürger in Rosenthal an Landgraf Ludwig um Beihilfen zur Anschaffung ihrer Ausrüstung. Bitte des Büchsenmeisters Hans Reuter in Homberg (Ohm) an Landgraf Ludwig um Übernahme in dessen Dienste
HStAM Best. 19a Nr.217
Musterregister des Oberfürstentums Hessens, Gießener Teil, ohne Stadt und Amt Allendorf/Lumda, mit Amt Blankenstein
Musterrollen des Landausschusses von Oberhessen 1583- 1665
Musterrollen des Landausschusses von Oberhessen. Stadt und Amt Alsfeld, Romrod, Grebenau, Gericht Schwarz und Eußergericht
SOURCE:
(HStAM) Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg
(HStAD) Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt
(HStAM) Hessisches Staatsarchiv Marburg
(HStAD) Hessisches Staatsarchiv Darmstadt
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