I represent Philip Marc. I was the Auditor of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born in 1739 in Arolsen, Waldeck Province. I was Jewish; my father was Moritz Marc, court agent. We were hired by the British from Waldeck Prince Frederick Karl Augustus to assist them in fighting the American rebels in the Revolutionary War. 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. From February 3 to April 25, 1780, I went from Pensacola to Spanish New Orleans under a flag of truce to arrange the financial accounts for the Waldeck men who had been taken prisoner at Baton Rouge in 1779. 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. I boarded the San Pedro and San Pablo on May 29 to make that voyage. 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 at New York on August 24, 1783. A Philipp Mark is listed in the 1790 census as living in the East Ward of New York City. I worked as a salesman and merchant in New York for a time, then was appointed the American consul at Bamberg, where I died on May 5, 1801. I maintained an autograph book during the Revolutionary War which contains entries made by many of the officers of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment, as well as by British and Provincial officers and civilians.
Sources: 26, 54