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From: "john" <>
Subject: Re: PML Search: Johann Christoph WAGNER, Ansbach-Bayreuth.
Date: Wed, 12 Oct 2005 17:44:36 -0400
References: <200510091910.j99JAkwR000310@pml.rootsweb.com>

Hello Susan King - you are active as ever - that's
the way to do it. -

Reading your essay, I couldn't overcome the feeling that
we are dealing here with the Chaplain of the Ansbach-
Bayreuth troops, which as you may remember became
prisoners at Yorktown in October 1781. He was offered a
parish in Maryland or Virginia during his time as a POW,
but the British authorities offered him a big chunk of land
in Nova Scotia, so he went with a bunch of A-B soldiers
in Fall of 1783 to Annapolis Township, Nova Scotia.
He got 400 acres of rocky land in the Clements Ts, today
vcalled Bear River. There with him were over a hundred foermer
Hessian soldiers with their families, and they wanted him to
be their Pastor. But soon he got into trouble with the Bishop
of the Anglican church, lots of verbal fighting, so Pastor
Wagner sold his land and told the people that he will go home
to Germany, that's a little before 1790. I later heard from a
descendant that he did not go to Germany, but went south to
either Virginia or Maryland, where he preached somewhere.
My Sources: S#1, 3, 19, 102, 124, 126, 329, and I am sure you
will find something in the Mail List archives. He is also in
my book "The Hessians of Nova Scotia", page 235.

This may give you some leads about his time before 1790, I have
nothing else, except I remember that I had a few enquiries
about him before.
Good luck,
John Helmut Merz


----- Original Message -----
From: "Susan King" <>
Sent: Sunday, October 09, 2005 3:10 PM

> Source:
> Subject: Re: [MDALLEGA] Research in Allegany County
>
> Any morsel of info relating to a Naturalization for my Christopher
WAGGONER (spelling variations of all sorts, including WAGNER) the time
bracket being late 1780's through 1830's. He resided in Allegany Co. from
at least 1792 through his death in the 1830's. I believe he was a Hessian
deserter who relocated near Oldtown. His full German name may have been
Johannes Christoph Waggoner, so I'd be interested in any Waggoner who may
pop up in naturalization info of that time period.
>
> I thank you so much for anything you can check out and would be more than
happy to reimburse for your time as I live in NC and can't make a trip
anytime soon. Thanks!
>
> Susan

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