The German-speaking Immigrant Experience in Utah BY ALLAN KENT POWELL
1776 The Lossberg Regiment left the army garrison at Rinteln, a G e r m a n town on the Weser River fifteen miles downstream from Hameln of Pied Piper fame. Included in the ranks of this regiment of Hessian mercenaries was Anton J o h n Watermann, a twenty-year-old weaver born near the Weser River village of Fischbeck. Sailing first to Portsmouth, England, Watermann and his comrades left for the New World on May 6, 1776, and landed at Staten
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