Muster roll of the present officers and men of a detachment of Brigadier General Specht Regiment Brunswick troops : including the recruits sent over from Brunswick in the year 1780, as muster'd by His Britanick Majesty's Commisary of Muster, Wm. Porter, Esqr. : at Fort Brooklyn on Long Island, July 20th, 1781.

Muster roll of the present officers and men of a detachment of Brigadier General Specht Regiment Brunswick troops : including the recruits sent over from Brunswick in the year 1780, as muster'd by His Britanick Majesty's Commisary of Muster, Wm. Porter, Esqr. : at Fort Brooklyn on Long Island, July 20th, 1781.

[4] p. ; 32 cm.

MSS L1995F152

Names 46 officers and men, including a surgeon, a clerk, and 4 servants. According to Boatner, more than 5700 men from Brunswick served in the British army during the Revolution.
Includes 4 remarks: 1) a servant sick in quarters; 2) a private confined in the goal at New York; 3) a private sick in the hospital; 4) a drummer, Johann Specht, possibly related to the commander, died at Flatbush the 26th of April 1781.
Signed and certified at foot of p. [3]: W. Porter, Comm[issar]y [and] A[ illegible] Lutzow, Commanding officer of the detachment ....
Watermark: Taylor (with Britannia) -- Gravell, T. Foreign watermarks, no. 128 (figures 675 and 676).

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