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From: "Mike Bartholomew" <>
Subject: Re: Groethausen Hessian Deserter?
Date: Sat, 2 Jan 1999 08:57:41 -0800


The Lieutenant Grothausen who was killed in action in Jan 1777 was a member
of the Hessen-Cassel Jaegercorps. He was one of three officers serving
under Captain Johann Ewald, and is documented in Ewald's "Diary of the
American War, A Hessian Journal". He was killed several days after the
Battle of Trenton on 2 Jan 1777.

Mike Bartholomew

>Scottie Greathouse wrote:
>>
>> Mr. Mertz, Thank you for writing. I never got a response from my
>> posting but did get quite a bit of info from the Greathouse surname
>> list. My Greathouse's are descended from John Greathouse & Sarah
>> McDade. We have never been able to connect John to Herman Groethausen.
>> It's still believed that he is from this family but nothing has been
>> found to substantiate it. If this line interests you, then I will be
>> happy to send you further info. Let me know. Thank you, Scottie
>> Greathouse email
>-----------------------------------------------------------
>Hello, I am researching the settlement fo Hessian soldier in America
>after the Am.Rev., and have collected a lot of information. I also
>maintain a mailing list for such a purpose,
> which at this point has over 200
>subscribers who are posting their Hessian question and other information
>of great interest. I do have all military name lists, including the
>computer geberated printouts from the Hessische Archives called HETRINA.
>I have been looking through those files, Hetrina alone has over 17,000
>names, and I only found one Grothausen, Friedrich Wilhelm, a Lieutenant
>who got killed in action in Jan.1777. (perhaps at Trenton?) but I could
>not find any others. This is where I could use some more details who
>your John or Hermann Groethausen is. Perhaps a well formulated posting
>on my mail list would result in some action.
>Regards, John
>
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