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Originally Posted by Tallysmom
I just found a Hessian. He was captured and converted to the cause, and went on to fight for his new country. His father in law fought for the US. Another so many times great grandfather was part of Washington's Life Brigade.
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I bet some of our ancestors knew each other. My cousin has some object supposedly handed to the ancestor by George Washington for being such a good body guard. Oh, I know--it is a button off his coat. (But that could just be a tall story--maybe the ancestor just took a button off some dead general's coat.)
I had forgotten about the Hessians. Another major player was Lafayette and where I live a lot of things are named after him. The main street in this town is Lafayette St. He was quite influential in the Revolution according to a tv program I saw a while back.