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From: peggyt <>
Subject: Re: [HESSIAN] Prisoner of War Camp at Allentown, PA
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 11:44:35 -0400
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Thanks to Barb for sending in this Allentown POW camp information. I
found the article in the Morning Call archives. I did not see it in the
edition of the paper that I get (7th edition). I have the Roberts Lehigh
County History and must have missed the mention of the POW camp when
skimming through the various chapters over the years. What is
unfortunate is that no information is given on the Hessians names. The
Lehigh County History is 3 volumes with volume II & Vol III being
biographical. Unfortunately, the indexing is only by surname.

Incidently, I live in a township adjacent to Allentown, PA.

Peggy Lyte Tyrrell, descendant of Gottlieb Westfall - Berks and
Cumberland Cos., PA; also researching Wilhelm Lochman.




Nelda Percival wrote:

> Hi Barb,
> Does it have a particular name? or was it just Allentown POW Camp?
> Need info for webpage...
>
> Thanks Nelda
>
> ----Original Message Follows----
> From: "Barb Wiemann" <>
> Reply-To: <>
> To:
> Subject: [HESSIAN] Prisoner of War Camp at Allentown, PA
> Date: Thu, 06 Oct 2005 20:50:12 -0400
>
> Since I could find no mention of the this camp in the archives, I am
> sending
> this for "the record."
>
> The Oct. 3, 2005 Morning Call (Allentown, PA) had an article about a
> Hessian
> prisoner of war camp located at what is present day Third and Gordon
> Streets
> in Allentown, PA.
> The article quotes Robert's History of Lehigh County, 1914: "Early in the
> year 1777, a number of the Hessians taken as prisoner at Trenton were
> brought to Allentown and kept in tents. The camp was located in the
> northern part of the town in the neighborhood of Gordon Street,
> according to
> the testimony of an old citizen."
> The article goes on to state that during and after the Revolution,
> many of
> the Hessians decided to stay in the Lehigh Valley, since they were in a
> German speaking community in the Valley, and that a number of local
> families
> can count a Hessian on the family tree.
> A plaque on a stone monument was erected in 1926 by the Liberty Bell
> Chapter
> of the DAR to commemorate the site on the camp.
>
> Barb Wiemann
> Descendant of Henry Stemler of Lehigh County, PA
>
>
>
>

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