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From: "Barbara Wiemann" <>
Subject: Isaac Klinkerfuss
Date: Tue, 25 May 2004 00:30:32 -0400
In-Reply-To: <00a701c43a1c$9e22e9c0$542f9618@hala1.on.cogeco.ca>


I came across a discussion of this Hessian deserter and his travels and
travails in the following book: Sweet Land of Liberty: the Ordeal of the
American Revolution in Northampton County, Pennsylvania, by Francis S. Fox
(Pennsylvania State University Press, 2000) p 137-142.
Isaac Klinkerfuss was captured at Saratoga and sent to Boston, where he
deserted. In June 1779 he headed south to New Jersey, where he came to the
attention of Dr. Andrew Ledlie of Easton, PA, the District Commissioner of
Prisoners.
If anyone is interested in this man, including his arrest by a zealous local
politician, contact me. In his later years he supposedly lived in Sussex
County NJ, where he was an influential citizen.
Barb Wiemann


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