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The Johannes Schwalm Historical Association has maintained partnerships with Franklin and Marshall College and Kutztown University to serve as repositories for our research collections. These institutions are vital to advancing our mission of collecting, organizing, and disseminating information on German auxiliary troops during the American War of Independence.
JSHA Research Collection
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This collection consists of research materials gathered by the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association an organization dedicated to the history of the Hessian soldiers who became citizens of the new United States after the American Revolution and their German-American descendents. Available to interested researchers are mostly secondary materials such as journals, monographs, family histories, articles, dissertations and manuscripts documenting German-American families, history and culture.
Scanned and digitized at different dates, the Schwalm Marburg Files are the monthly reports of Hessen-Cassel, Hessen Hanau and Waldeck units employed by the British during the American Revolutionary War. These reports contain much additional information than what can be found online using the HETRINA database
Schwalm Marburg Files
The Schwalm Collection contains primary sources of the Johannes Schwalm Historical Association (JSHA), an organization dedicated to the history of "Hessian" soldiers from the German principalities of Hesse-Cassel, Hesse-Hanau, Waldeck, Brunswick, Anhalt-Zerbst, and Ansbach-Bayreuth who served as auxiliaries to the British crown during the American Revolution (1775-1783) and who became citizens of the new United States after the war.