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<p>[QUOTE=&quot;ColonialDave, post: 1959210, member: 56493&quot;]Here is another source about Hessian and their coins, but it doesn&#039;t say specifically what type of thalers these were (presumably pre 1776 Hesse Cassel Thalers): <a href="http://www.pa-roots.org/data/read.php?416,318393,318393#msg-318393" target="_blank" class="externalLink ProxyLink" data-proxy-href="http://www.pa-roots.org/data/read.php?416,318393,318393#msg-318393" rel="nofollow">http://www.pa-roots.org/data/read.php?416,318393,318393#msg-318393</a></p><p><br /></p><p>HAUPT\HOUP\HOUCK, Arnold~ Broad Top&#039;s Hessian Soldier</p><p><br /></p><p>In October 1775 Hoap was notified by the authorities that he was one of the men that was to be sent to America to help the British fight their battles. One month only was allowed him to be ready to start and leave his native country to which he never returned, he left in November of that year. <b>A sad farewell (can’t read??) he left his home and the family - young Houp’s kind mother sewed 3 pieces of money in the lining of is uniform, this money was called Thaler. </b>We will show hereafter what particular use he made of this money and how in a time of great need he kept the wolf want from his door, in his new home on Broad Top. He landed in New York early in August 1776 and had his first taste of war in America in the battle of Long Island, on the 27th of that same month under De-Heisier*the Regiment von Lossberg (Heusser), the Hessian, Commander in which the Americans lost 5 to 1.[/QUOTE]</p><p><br /></p>

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