Friedrich Heinrich (von Weißenfels) Weissenfels (1728 - 1806)

Born 9 Nov 1728 in Spittels, Prussia [uncertain]

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Died 14 May 1806 at age 77 in New Orleans, Orleans Parish, Orleans Territory, United States

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Colonel Frederick (von Weißenfels) Weissenfels served with 4th New York Regiment, Continental Army during the American Revolution.

Frederick (von Weißenfels) Weissenfels is a DAR Patriot Ancestor, A121773.

Friedrich Heinrich von Weißenfels was born 9 November 1728, likely at Elbing or Preußisch Holland, to a Prussian family of minor nobility. His father, Carl Georg, was Erbherr—hereditary lord—of Spittels (today Gołąbki), an estate about a mile and a half east of Preußisch Holland, and where he was baptized on the following fifteenth.

Frederick was married first to Mary Shurmur on 16 December 1756.

Sources

• Daughters of the American Revolution, DAR Genealogical Research Databases, database online, (http://www.dar.org/ : accessed 4 July 2020), "Record of Weissenfeld, Fred H", Ancestor # A121773.

• Media. Found at Ancestry.com. War of the Rebellion-Weissenfels, 1775-6. New York. My Great Grandfather Charles Carroll Watkins requested this document from the New York Bureau of Records of the War of the Rebellion. It is a listing of the service of Frederick Von Weissenfels (as Captain or Lt. Colonel) in the State of New York during the Revolutionary War. ME. mermer1 originally shared this on 2 Sep 2013.

• Wikipedia contributors, "Frederick, Baron de Weissenfels," Wikipedia, The Free Encyclopedia, https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Frederick,_Baron_de_Weissenfels&oldid=1158378050 (accessed August 4, 2023).