Dear Liz;
In my first posting to this Board I specifically pointed out
the Rootsweb mailing list
AMREV-HESSIANS-L@rootsweb.com where answer may be
found. You should try the mail list archives which responds
to keyword searches, which is
http://searches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pland when this site comes up, just enter the list name.
I woud suggest to try each year seperately for GECHTER.
Furthermore, last summer I retired from my Hessian research
and turned over all my research material to the S.A.R.
The Sons of The American Revolution Library in Louisville,
Kentucky, and should be available for researchers like
yourself. Also, the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association
has given their Hessian research sources to a depository and
they also answer questions.
In all, the 'Hessians of the American Revolution" are no longer
a dark secret, they are being researched and lots of info is
now available about them. Check
http://www.google.com as
well, amazing what you will find, I am pretty sure you won't
see it all before the end of this year 2004.
Good luck to you, and have a very happy 2005.
Yours,
John Helmut Merz.
Still wandering through the Message Boards to help.