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In reply to the discussion: The Genealogy Thread. =) [View all]davsand
(13,421 posts)46. French Huguenots from Virginia on my Mom's side. Hessian Merc captured at Trenton on Dad's side.
The story on Anton (some records call him Anthony) Halberstadt (the merc) was that he was the third son, and was in the military when the Prince leased his army out to the Brits. He was one of the 1000 or so captured at Trenton when Washington did the whole "Crossing the Delaware" maneuver. He stayed in America after the war and married a woman from NJ, and He died in 1831 in Franklin Co, IN. There's a chapter of the Sons Of the American Revolution named for him in Ft Wayne Indiana:
http://halberstadt.inssar.org/
"Our chapter is named after Anthony Halberstadt who was conscripted by the German army to come and fight in the Revolutionary War on the side of the British as a Hessian mercenary. He was captured by George Washingtons troops in the battle of Trenton . He became a teamster for a Continental Army officer. He married an English woman named Miller and after the war came by flatboat down the Ohio River to Franklin County , Indiana in 1806. There he settled and was probably the first Coroner of Franklin Co. It is believed he is buried in the graveyard of the Cedarville Baptist Church near Brookville, IN , although there is no stone. He was the Patriot Ancestor of Jim Halberstadt, one of our chapter founders."
Interesting stuff!
Laura
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Job's Lane in Southampton Long Island is named for one of my 10th great grandfathers. n/t
HereSince1628
Sep 2012
#1
Apparently, my South Carolinian ancestor, Yearby Land, may have lived thru the New Madrid quake.....
AverageJoe90
Sep 2012
#2
Thomas Sayre has scores of thousands of living descendants...we certainly could share him.
HereSince1628
Sep 2012
#13
I know my father's side goes back to at least my great grandfather in Iowa. Mom's is longer...
HopeHoops
Sep 2012
#14
My dad's family is part of the Diasopra, so I only know it a few generations back.
pink-o
Oct 2012
#21
Searching for where one came frorm is Cool...and thanks for the links...I woulda' thought
KoKo
Oct 2012
#25
Yes, it was. I should have stated that. Her last name has also been spelled as Nourse. n/t
Fla Dem
Oct 2012
#51
After having a mitochondrial DNA test, I decided to investigate my matrilineage.
Fridays Child
Oct 2012
#40
My husband's family had a Mehitable in Massachussetts around that time, I think. And a Hate Evil.
GreenPartyVoter
Oct 2012
#54