I represent Josias Theodor Friedrich Ludwig von Wilmowsky. I was a lieutenant in the 3rd company, 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born in 1758 in Korbach, Waldeck Regiment. My parents were Philibert Zachaeus Noee and Christiane Elisabeth Philippine von Noelting Wilmowsky. My religion was Evangelical (which in this context, means “Protestant”). 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. I sailed for North America with the regiment in 1776. After two years of heavy action the Regiment was sent to Pensacola, along with the provincial loyalist forces of Maryland and Pennsylvania. After the surrender of Pensacola, 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. 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 continued my military career – and got married – rising in the ranks until I was a lieutenant colonel of the 5th Battalion, which was heading to the Cape of Good Hope. I was on my way to assume command of the battalion in 1802 when the transport ship sank on its way to Dover, England. I and my entire family drowned.
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