I represent Johan Georg Henrich Muss. I was a Quartermaster sergeantt in the 3rd Company, 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born October 6, 1752, in Wildungen, Waldeck Province. I was Evangelical (which, in this context, means “Protestant”). My parents were Johann Georg and Anna Maria Muss. 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 had eleven years’ previous service in the 2nd Waldeck Regiment when we sailed to North America in 1776. I was a corporal then. 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 Quartermaster sergeant in April 1780. 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. The Waldeckers resumed duty in July of 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. I married Luise Elizabeth Brust in December 1784 and we had four children.
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