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From: John Helmut Merz <>
Subject: [REV-HESSIANS] Johan Friederich Beerwort
Date: Fri, 17 Dec 1999 22:52:06 -0800

wrote:
> Hello, John -
> Thanks for clueing me in on searching highgate in the AMREV !!
> I did some digging in my records and find that John Beerwort's wife,
> Barbara
> Mock had a sister Elizabeth Mock who married JOHN STEINMETZ of
> Highgate, VT
> and the name has now been anglicized to STIMETS !! Johannes Mock, the
> father,
> was not a Hessian, however. He was a farmer living near Albany and
> joined
> Leakes' company in 1777, and in 1 Jan. 1783 was mustered in Meyer's
> Company,
> Jessup's Corps of Loyal Rangers. He later took up a farm in St. Armand,
> Que.
> not more than 5 miles from Highgate.
> Somewhere in my papers I have information on the Saxe family who
> began a little hamlet called Saxe's Mills in the town of Highgate. When
> I find
> what I'm looking for, I'll ask you to clarify some wording in his claim
> to the
> government, where he claims to have settled where he did, "in hanspect".
> I don't know what that phrase means.
> Thanks very much, again. Regards, Bernard

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