Dear Listies,
Interesting.
Staatsarchiv at Wofenbuettal, Germany.........
catalogued 38 B Alt Nr. 260, is a summary report on the Brunswick mercenaries sent to America in British service during the American Revolution, prepared after the return of the units to Germany.
Hans Helmut Rimpau published, in the Archiv fuer sippen-forschung, the names of over 1700 soldiers who failed to return to Brunswick in 1783.
Brunswick troops served mainly in Canada and northern New York; Brunswick prisoners of war were interned as far south as Virginia.
Battlefield deserters are likely to be found in the state of New York in 1790; Former prisoners of war must be sought in all the states southward to North Carolina.
Unlike British deserters, there was no way for the Germans to lose themselves in the general populace; consequently, the German deserters are likely to have tried to reach German-Speaking settlesments in the Mohawk Valley or in Pennsylvania.
Source:
Brunswick deserter-immigrants of the American Revolution
Thomson, Ill. :: Distributed by Heritage House, 1973, 55 pgs.