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the Hessians,* prisoners taken there, were conveyed tt) 

 Lancaster borough. 



American soldiers were quartered at the barracks and 

 other parts of the county during the winter of '77 and 

 '78. Both the Lutheran and Reformed church at oSIan- 

 heim were quartered with soldiers. Wlien the battle of 

 Brar.dywine was fought, September 11th, 1777, many of 

 tlie wounded soldiers were conveyed to Ephrata, where 

 about one hundred and fifty of their number, which was 

 rising of five hundred, died. 



While General Washington took winter quarters, Gen- 

 eral Wayne encamped in this county, in Mountjoy town- 

 ship, where his men endured no small degree of suffering, 

 as appears from the following letters, from the General 

 to his excellency, Thomas Wharton, Esq., at Lancaster : 



*In 1775, the British King entered into treaties with some of 

 the German princes for about seventeen thousand men, who 

 were sent to America early in 1776, to assist in subduing the 

 colonies. Among these were the Hessians, who had been 

 taken at Trenton and conveyed as prisoners to Lancaster. At 

 the close of the Revolution many of them remained and in- 

 termarried with German and English families, whose descend- 

 ants are respectable, and some of the best citizens. 



In September, 1843, we visited one of the German mercene- 

 ries, living at Millport, Warwick township; a Mr. Jacob Ha- 

 genberger, who according to his own statement, wasborn March 

 3d, 1750, arrived at Quebeck, March 5, 1775. He belonged to 

 Captain Schachter's company ; he was taken prisoner at the 

 surrender of General Burgoyne, October 17, 1777; taken to 

 the barracks near Boston, thence to Winchester, Virginia, 

 thence to Reading, and lastly to Lancaster, where, on the 

 close of the war, he was sold for eighty dollars, for the term of 

 nearly three years to Captain Jacob Zimmerman, of Earl 

 township. Hagenberger is now in his 94th year. His health 

 is good and memory remarkable. 



