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From: "Roger Kemple" <>
Subject: Re: [HESSIAN] PML find: Henry Probst, For archives
Date: Sat, 8 Oct 2005 15:15:29 -0400
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Is Johannes Kemper in The Soldiers theat Stayed Behind? Thanks
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From: "Nelda Percival" <>
To: <>
Sent: Friday, October 07, 2005 8:11 PM
Subject: [HESSIAN] PML find: Henry Probst, For archives


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