I represent Wilhelm Schultze. I was a bombardier in the artillery section of the 3rd Waldeck Regiment. I was born in Pyrmont Province. My religion was Evangelical (which, in this context, means “Protestant”). I was married and the father of one child. I stood 5′ 8″ tall – which was well above average for the men in my regiment. 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. We 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. 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. In June 1781 I was transferred to the 5th company – after all, once we surrendered the guns in Pensacola, there was no need for an artillery section. 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 was released at Korbach, Waldeck Province, on October 16, 1783.
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