I represent Christian Mattern. I was the Surgeon of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born in 1745 in Mengeringhausen, Waldeck Province. We were 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 we were sent to Pensacola, along with the provincial loyalist forces of Maryland and Pennsylvania. When Pensacola surrendered to the Spanish in May 1781, we were sent 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 of 1782, and a year later, in July of 1783, I and the rest of the Waldeck Regiment, 418 men and women and 13 children, left New York to return to Europe.
Sources: 26, 54