I represent Karl Friedrich Pfister. I was a medic in the 4th Company of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born about 1747 in Schwerin, Mecklenberg Province. My religion was Evangelical (which, in this context, means “Protestant”). The 3rd Waldeck Regiment was hired by the British from Waldeck Prince Frederick Karl Augustus to assist them in fighting the American rebels in the Revolutionary War. As a medic with the 2nd Company, I sailed with the regiment to North America in 1776. After two years of heavy action we were sent to Pensacola, along with the provincial loyalist forces of Maryland and Pennsylvania. I was transferred to the 4th Company in December 1779. After the surrender in May 1781, we were sent to New York, on our honor not to fight against the Spanish again until we were exchanged. I was transferred back to the 2nd Company in June 1782, and the Waldeckers resumed duty in July of 1782. A year later, in July of 1783, I and the Waldeck Regiment, 418 men and women and 13 children, left New York to return to Europe.
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