I represent Arnold Schumacher. I was a cadet in the 4th company of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born March 27, 1743 in Korbach, Waldeck Province. My parents were Tilemann Arnold Henrich (who was a lawyer) and Gertrud Schultheiss Schumacher. In 1770 I married Justine Christine Elisabeth Wildstach, and we had four children (two of whom survived infancy). My religion was Evangelical (which, in this contact, means “Protestant”). After failing my examination to become the preacher at Freienhagen, I became a drunkard and joined the 3rd Regiment, leaving my wife and children in Germany. The 3rd 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 1779 recruit shipment. My wife died in October or November of that year, and I followed soon after, dying of illness on July 29, 1780. I probably still lie in an unmarked grave in Pensacola.
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