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My wife's cousin at Christmas supper was saying he had a relative named Eichorn in the King's Rangers during the American War of Independence. Eichorn was a German.
I appeal to the wealth of knowledge in this group. I stated my own belief that the KGL would havee been the group and that he would have been something along the lines as Hanoverian.

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Quick check for records at regiments.org, and you relative is correct. Take a look:

The King's Rangers or Roger's Rangers were in service from 1779-1784

http://www.regiments.org/regiments/na-u ... prxref.htm

The King's German Legion 1803-1816 did not come into service until 1803.

http://www.regiments.org/regiments/euro ... rgxref.htm

Here's a good link on the King's Rangers:

http://www.rogersrangers.org/kings/index.html

Keep in mind, just because they are German and fought for the King, doesn't mean they were Hanoverian. Most German units in the American Rev as mercenaries were Hessian.

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The Only "King's Rangers" I know of is the one that's the sort of decendent to Roger's Rangers of the French and Indian War:

http://www.rogersrangers.org/kings/index.html

If that's the case, then this person would have already emigrated to North America before joining, so you'd pretty much need to track down a muster list and run genealogy to have any chance of figuring out where in Germany he was from originally.

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