I represent August Greiser. I was a sergeant in the 4th Company of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born in 1756 in Unna, Prussia. I was Evangelical (which, in this context, means “Protestant”), and I stood 5’7″ tall – pretty tall among the men in my regiment. The 3rd Waldeck was hired by the British from Waldeck Prince Frederick Karl Augustus to assist them in fighting the American rebels in the Revolutionary War. I had five years’ previous service in Holland (probably in another Waldeck unit) when I sailed with the 3rd to North America in 1776. At that time, I was a captain at arms with the 4th company. After two years of heavy action we were sent to Pensacola, along with the provincial loyalist forces of Maryland and Pennsylvania. In April 1779, I was promoted to Quartermaster Sergeant in April 1770, and to Sergeant in April 1780. After the surrender in May 1781, we were sent by the Spanish to New York, on our honor not to fight against the Spanish again until we were exchanged. We lived in encampments at New Town on Long Island. The Waldeckers resumed duty in July 1782. A year later, in July of 1783, the Waldeck Regiment, 418 men and women and 13 children, left New York to return to Europe. I was released at Flatbush, New York, on July 15, 1783. In June 1784 I was given a land grant in Nova Scotia for one man and one woman.
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