I represent Stephan Hertzog. I was a corporal in the 3rd Company of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born about 1743 in Wellen, Waldeck Province I was Evangelical (which, in this context, means “Protestant”). The 3rd Waldeck was hired by the British from Waldeck Prince Frederick Karl Augustus to assist them in fighting the American rebels in the Revolutionary War. I joined the Waldeck 2nd Regiment in on 28 DEC 1760 and had 16 years’ service when I sailed with the 3rd to North America in 1776. At that time, I was a private. After two years of heavy action we were sent to Pensacola, along with the provincial loyalist forces of Maryland and Pennsylvania. In April 1779, I was promoted to corporal. 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. We lived in encampments at New Town on Long Island. I was promoted to captain at arms in June 1782. The Waldeckers resumed duty in July 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.
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