I represent Kaspar Hesse. I was a private in the 3rd Company, 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born about 1750 in Saalbach. 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. The rest of the Regiment reached North America in 1776. After two years of heavy action they were sent to Pensacola, along with the provincial loyalist forces of Maryland and Pennsylvania. I came to America with the 1778 recruit shipment, and we had a pretty miserable time, arriving already sick from our journey. I was one that first stepped onshore already ill, and it finally got me on February 26, 1780. I probably still lie in an unmarked grave in Pensacola.
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