Book Description

Henry Ludwig Achilles was born ca. 1746 in the former Duchy of Brunswick in central Germany. He married Dorothea Elizabeth Stuetzer in 1770 at Wolfenbuettel, Brunswick. Shortly after their third child was born in 1775, Henry, a member of the Brunswick Ducal armed forces, was sent to America to fight in the Revolutionary War for England. He was captured by American forces in 1777. He later served in the American Army. He married 2) Mary Page Collins, in Dunbarton, New Hampshire, in 1778. They four children. He married 3) Martha Hadlock in 1823. He died in 1834 at New London, Merrimack County, New Hampshire. Descendants of his American family lived in New Hampshire, New York, Quebec, Vermont, and elsewhere.