Researchers discovered the remains of as many as 13 German soldiers who fought for the British during the American Revolutionary War buried in an apparent mass grave in New Jersey.
The remains, found at the site of Fort Mercer and the 1777 Battle of Red Bank, rested for 245 years until a human femur was found in June during an archeological dig of a trench system that surrounded the fort,said. Additional excavation yielded more skeletal remains and items including pewter and brass buttons and a King George III gold guinea, which would have been a soldier's pay for a month.
"We're hoping that eventually, perhaps, we can find some of these individuals. If we can extract their stories, and if we can tell their stories, it lets us put a name to a face. And that, to me, is a very powerful moment in public history," Rowan University public historian Jennifer Janofsky. "History is an ongoing process. It's not like we've written the Battle of Red Bank and we know everything that happened.
"Based on everything we've found and the context of what we've found, these appear to be Hessians," Wade Catts, principal archeologist for South River Heritage Consulting of Delaware, said in a statement. "We will do more research on that, but, right now, our working hypothesis is that these are Hessian soldiers. The trench is a remarkable space. It's a significant archeological site.
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