I represent Henrich Litzau. I was a cannoneer in the artillery section of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born in either Hameln of Nienburg, for some reason the records differ. 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 Regiment reached North America in 1776. After two years of heavy action the regiment was sent to Pensacola, along with the provincial loyalist forces of Maryland and Pennsylvania. Robert Farmar’s journal of the siege of Pensacola has the following entry for May 7, 1781: “About 6 o’clock a.m. a shell from the enemy’s flank battery fell in a tent at the adv. Redoubt in which some men of the artillery were making fuses for the shells – a number of loaded shells & loose powder laying about, it blew up a box of powder and burst a shell which killed one man of this Waldeck train and wounded another.” I was the man killed.
Sources: 54, 28