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Wilhelm Fleischhut, 3rd Waldeck Regiment

Wilhelm Fleischhut, 3rd Waldeck Regiment

Posted: 20 Jul 2015 3:28AM GMT
Classification: Query
Surnames: Fleischhut, Wysong, Fleshart, Fleischutt
I'd like to connect with anyone researching a Revolutionary War Hessian soldier by the name of Wilhelm Fleischhut. According to HETRINA, he was born in Friedewald, Hesse, Germany in 1753; joined the 3rd English-Waldeck regiment at Beverungen on May 22, 1776; was listed as a paper maker; was a "Gent d'Armes"; served for 2 years; and had a desertion on his military record.

Hessian researcher Bruce Burgoyne says he was a private, born about 1753, and was released from the regiment, probably as an invalid, on 18 Nov 1776. Possible injury during the Battle of Fort Washington. (Source: The Journal of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association, Vol. 3, No. 3, 1987, p. 66.)

We believe this soldier may have later moved to Virginia and assumed the name Frantz Fleischutt, anglicized to Francis Fleshart. OR he may have been this man's father or other relative. Francis Fleshart married Elizabeth Wysong (daughter of revolutionary war veteran Feidt Wysong, who married Elizabeth Phemach) in Botetourt County, Virginia in 1794. This family moved to Knoxville, TN c1801 where he was a watchmaker and silversmith. He died in 1808/9 in Knoxville, TN. His estate inventory included items consistent with a Hessian soldier: a dragoon cap, a dragoon coat, a dirk, and a cavalryman's sword. A dragoon was a cavalry soldier who could dismount to fight.

So my working theory is that Frantz Fleischutt may have been named Francis Wilhelm Fleischutt. Francis and Elizabeth had sons named William, Joseph (Or possibly the same person named William Joseph), and Francis, Jr. I have written to the Archive of the Evangelical Church of Kurhessen-Waldeck (www.ekkw.de/archiv) in Germany to have them search for records and they turned up no birth, death, or marriage records for anyone with a surname like Fleischutt. This is the reformed Lutheran parish that would govern records for Hessian soldiers born in Friedewald.
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