I represent Henrich Jakob Knipschild. I was the Adjutant of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born in Korbach, Waldeck Province. I was Evangelical (which means “Protestant” in this context). We were hired by the British from Waldeck Prince Frederick Karl Augustus to assist them in fighting the American rebels in the Revolutionary War. I was an ensign in the 3rd company when 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. I was promoted to 2nd lieutenant in April 1779 and to first lieutenant a year later. After the death of Lt. Johann Henrich Stierlein at the ill-fated attack on The Village in January 1781, I was transferred to the regimental staff as adjutant. When Pensacola surrendered to the Spanish, 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, the Waldeck Regiment, 418 men and women and 13 children, left New York to return to Europe. I was released from the regiment in America in August 1783, and went to Nova Scotia, where I was given a land grant for one man, one woman, and two Negro servants.
Sources: 26, 54