I represent Johann Christian Wenthe. I was a cannoneer in the artillery section of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born October 29, 1739, in Hameln. My parents were Jobst and Anna Magdalena Freymann Wenthe. In 1769, I married Anna Katharina Fricke in 1769, to whom was born a daughter and a son. 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. I sailed for North America with the regiment in 1776. After two years of heavy action the Regiment was sent to Pensacola, along with the provincial loyalist forces of Maryland and Pennsylvania. I was wounded on May 7, 1781 at the Advanced Redoubt in Pensacola. I made it throught the surrender on May 10, but I died of my wounds on May 16, 1781. I probably still lie in an unmarked grave in Pensacola.
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