Re: Huckleberry's from Canada to Michigan
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Huckleberry's from Canada to Michigan
Anne Westover 3/22/01
Anne, Could your Jacob be the son of a man I read about some years ago in the book about Pennsylvania, "Notes and Queries", Series 4, Vol. 2, p. 292?
"In September, 1843, the late Prof. I.D. Rapp visited one of the Hessian mercenaries, who was then living at Millport, in Warwick township, a man named Jacob Hogenberger, then in his 94th year, who, according to his own statement, had been born March 3, 1750, and arrived at Quebec March 5, 1775, belonging to Capt. Behacter's company.He was taken prisoner at the surrender of Burgoyne, October 17, 1777, and taken to the Lancaster baracks, where on the close of the was he was sold for $80 for a term of years to Captain Jacob Zimmerman of Earl township."
I do not have the whole series of articles which is about the barracks in Lancaster, PA. where Hessian soldiers were kept.I assumed (a bad idea!) that the Quebec referred to meant the city in Canada.I did not see how this could be the Jacob from Pennsylvania that I was looking for, but I was curious about the name and kept the page - just in case.