The first of our people to arrive in this country was a hessian, hit ground in 1776 and promptly said Fugk fighting the colonists and took off over the Blueridge to the mountains and a terrain he knew how to operate in.
Settled in Pendleton co Virginia (now W.Va)a year after he arrived.
This is his stone which actually nicer than most of our relatives. It’s in a very small burial plot in an area known at that time as Wizard’s clip.
The first of my family came around 1630 (french) the last of my family to come to this Continent was also a Hessian Soldier, I have all the documentation here.
The British hired 30,000 German mercenaries to come and fight the American revolution, 2,000 stayed on the Continent.
I have Chronicled where they were, who they married, from the original Hessian of my entire family, fur trade records, church records etc