I represent Philipp Franz Waldeck. I was the chaplain of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born on March 9, 1750 in Hemfurth, Waldeck Province. My religion was Evangelical (which, in this context, means “Protestant”). I was a preacher and tutor by profession. I was the son of a clergyman and I studied theology at the University of Jena. 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. The regiment reached North America in 1776, with me as chaplain on the staff. Throughout my service during the war, I kept a diary where I recorded my observations on all manner of things, including the landscape and wildlife of wherever we were stationed, and my own duties. 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, I and the Waldeck Regiment, 418 men and women and 13 children, left New York to return to Europe. I died of a fever on March 20, 1784 at Mengeringhausen, Waldeck, and was buried there.
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