Journal of the Voyage of the Brunswick Auxiliaries from Wolfenbüttel to Quebec

E-55: Morning Chronicle Steam Printing Establishment. Very Good. 1891. Paperback. Trade PB. 8vo. Morning Chronicle Steam Printing Establishment, Quebec. 1891. 137-178 pgs. First Edition/First Printing. Bound in sewn salmon pink wrappers. Wrappers worn and chipped at the edges with front wrapper split from the binding. Book is free of ownership marks. Text is clean and free of marks. Binding tight and solid. The travel diary by the Chaplain (and later prominent US settler) of the travails of one of the German mercenary units (Hessians) hired by the British during the Revolutionary War. The Reverend Frederick Valentine Melsheimer (September 25, 1749, Negenborn, Brunswick – June 30, 1814, Hanover, Pennsylvania) was a Lutheran clergyman and early American entomologist, called the "Father of American Entomology" by successor Thomas Say. He was the author of the first major entomological work in the United States: A Catalogue of Insects of Pennsylvania (1806) , a sixty-page work that describes 1,363 species of beetles. Melsheimer studied at the university in Helmstedt from 1772 to 1776 before becoming chaplain to the Duke of Brunswick's Dragoons Regiment. With this regiment he arrived in Canada in 1776 to fight alongside British troops in the American Revolutionary War. He was taken prisoner by the American army on August 16, 1777 following their victory at the Battle of Bennington and remained in prison for fourteen months. After being released on parole, he resigned from his office of chaplain and began to preach in Lancaster County, Pennsylvania. E-55; 8vo 8" - 9" tall .