Excerpt from Daniel Claus Narrative of His Relations With Sir William Johnson and Experiences in the Lake George Fight, 1904: Lake George Celebration Executive Committee Report; Native Troops in Our Colonial Possessions
Daniel Claus Esqr. was born the 13th Septr. 1727 at Bennig-ham a Town near the Imperial Free City, Heilbron the property of Count Wadian of Menz. The place is protestant Lutheran over which his deceased Father Adam Frederick was prefect, he was descended from an Antient Family in Transylvania who were said to be the founders of one of the principal Towns of that principality, but the Reformation early spreading to that Country they adopted Doctor Luther"s Tenets and a Persecution agst. its Adherents soon after taking place, together wth. ye savage Wars of the Turks in those parts they suffered so much under these circumstances that they were obliged to quit their landed Estate wch. was considerable and afterward confiscated and took Refuge in the Imperial free city Ulm Where Protestantism was more tolerated and their Descendants still were esteemed and countenanced at the Imperial Court and employed both in Civil and Military Stations, as appears by the... Diploma granted them not long after, with much Town Distinction honoring them to carry the Imperial Insigns of the Lion and Eagle Wings together wth. the or & sable (yellow & black) colors. The Imperial uniform wch. Diploma Mr. Claus"s Father had in possession as the surviving elder Male Branch of sd. Family together with a Genealogical Tree of the Family the latter he left in Germany among his Relations, taking a copy of the Diploma authenticated by an Imperial notary public copied and translated it himself upon parchmt. & had the Arms done as nearly after the Copy of the Original as he could in this Country untill it may be better executed in London & inregistered in the Herald"s Office.
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