I represent Johann Wilhelm Moehring. I was a private in the 4th Company, 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born July 12, 1756 in Baarsen, Pyrmont Province. I was Evangelical (which, in this context, means “Protestant”) and I stood 5′ 3″ tall – just below average for the men in my regiment. My parents were Johann Wilhelm and Ann Marie Koester Moehring. I was a shoemaker by trade. 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. We 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. 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. I boarded the Santa Rosalia on May 29, 1781 to make this voyage. We lived in encampments at New Town on Long Island. The Waldeckers resumed duty in July of 1782 A year later, in July of 1783, I and the Waldeck Regiment, 418 men and women and 13 children, left New York to return to Europe. I was married four times: once during my military service and then in 1816, 1819, and 1820. I died March 17, 1820.
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