Throwback Thursday

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THROWBACK THURSDAY

My 5x great grandfather, Jacob Coons fought during the American Revolutionary War. He was ethnic German born 1740 in Culpeper Virginia. (Virginia became a State June 25, 1788) His father, Joseph Kuntze, was an immigrant from Niederndorf, Prussia (modern day Germany).Jacob enlisted in the German Battalion of the Continental Army August 24, 1776.Notice that as a soldier he was paid $6.66 a month.

“The German Battalion or German Regiment or 8th Maryland was an American infantry unit that served for about four and one-half years in the Continental Army during the American Revolutionary War. Authorized in May 1776 as an Extra Continental regiment, the unit recruited ethnic Germans from Maryland and Pennsylvania. The Continental Congress appointed Nicholas Haussegger to command the battalion, which initially organized in the strength of eight companies. While the unit assembled at Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, a ninth company was added. The battalion fought at Trenton in December 1776, where its soldiers called out in German for the Hessians to lay down their arms.A week later, the German Battalion was in action at Assunpink Creek where a number of its troops were captured, including Haussegger. The next day, the unit fought at Princeton. After Haussegger defected to the British, George Washington appointed Prussian volunteer Henry Leonard d’Arendt to command the battalion. The battalion served with the 1st Virginia Brigade at Brandywine and Germantown in September and October 1777. The following June the German Battalion fought at Monmouth. Late in 1778, the unit was assigned to Edward Hand‘s brigade and served in the Sullivan Expedition in the summer of 1779. The battalion transferred to the New Jersey Brigade before being dissolved in January 1781.” – Wikipedia

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