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From: "Nelda Percival" <>
Subject: PML find: Henry Probst, For archives
Date: Fri, 07 Oct 2005 17:11:13 -0700
In-Reply-To: <200510071152.j97BqHlS014243@pml.rootsweb.com>


Hi Hessian descendants and Barbara,

The name Henry Probst is in The soldiers that stayed in America on page:

http://freepages.military.rootsweb.com/~bonsteinandgilpin/a/amhessians17.htm

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From: BarbaraA <>
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Subject: PML Search Result matching Hessian
Date: Fri, 7 Oct 2005 05:52:17 -0600

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Subject: Re: [PAFRANKL] Hessian soliders



> >>>I understand that during the Revolution one of Letterkenny's
> fighters was a Major James McCalmont who, upon capturing a body of
> Hessians, marched them all the way from the Philadelphia region to his
> home at Strasburg or I believe "Upper Strasburg" <<



From the "History of Upper Strasburg, PA" page 5 ..............

"When Major James McCalmont returned to Upper Strasburg after the
surrender at Trenton, he brought back with him a number of Hessian
soldiers, who hired themselves as laborers to the settlers and some of
them sent to Germany for their families. The two families my
grandfather had any record of, were Henry Probst and a Mr. Holby. They
remained in the neighborhood and reared large families, and their
descendants were respectable and honest people. Probst bought 10 acres
of the McCalmont tract on which he built a house and where his family
was raised. Holby had a clearing on the mountain side, above the Picnic
Spring. His widow died in Upper Strasburg around 1850."

Barbara


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