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[REVOLUTIONARY WAR.] DE HORN, C. Manuscript document signed, Newton, Long Island, 24 June 1782. A Hessian Muster Roll. 5 pages, folio, on fine paper. In English, accomplished in a neat clerical hand. Very good condition
A RARE HESSIAN MUSTER ROLL for Major Friedrich Pentzel’s company of the 3rd Regiment of Waldeck, on parole in occupied New York City. It lists 127 effective troops, three dead and one deserter, Peter Schumann, who “deserted from the Rospeth Ship at Havanna, 1 October 1781.” Signed by Col. C. De Horn and counter-signed by Lt. Wilhelm. Keppel, Lt. Carl Hohmann, Ensign Ludwig Schmid and Ensign Carl Muller. “This muster is taken for 182 days from the 25th December 1781 to the 24 of June 1782.” This regiment came over to America in 1781 to put down—unsuccessfully, as it happened--a Spanish rebellion in Britain’s Florida colonies. The regiment surrendered to the Spaniards at Pensacola but were paroled to a British harbor, New York, on a pledge not take up arms against Spain.
A RARE HESSIAN MUSTER ROLL for Major Friedrich Pentzel’s company of the 3rd Regiment of Waldeck, on parole in occupied New York City. It lists 127 effective troops, three dead and one deserter, Peter Schumann, who “deserted from the Rospeth Ship at Havanna, 1 October 1781.” Signed by Col. C. De Horn and counter-signed by Lt. Wilhelm. Keppel, Lt. Carl Hohmann, Ensign Ludwig Schmid and Ensign Carl Muller. “This muster is taken for 182 days from the 25th December 1781 to the 24 of June 1782.” This regiment came over to America in 1781 to put down—unsuccessfully, as it happened--a Spanish rebellion in Britain’s Florida colonies. The regiment surrendered to the Spaniards at Pensacola but were paroled to a British harbor, New York, on a pledge not take up arms against Spain.