Hessian Soldier Spiceland

Possibly:

• Postain Spiceland, who was involved in a land purchase in North Carolina in 1799
• Heiko Spiceland, who was living in North Carolina around 1780. Heiko is a nickname for Heinrich. Could he be the same person as Heinrich Spies?
• Friedrich Spies, of Schwebda and the Erbprinz Regiment, company #3.
• Heinrich Spies, born 1752-54 in Schwebda, Germany; private soldier, 3.Comp., Kassel Regt. Erbprinz. on Muster Roll in 1775, and later listed as deserted in April 1781
• Hessen-Kassel Jaeger Valentin Spies, born 1756/57 at Eichsfeld/Thuringia, served in the 4th Jaeger Company, and deserted in November 1783.

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From Hetrina III following the entry for Friedrich SPIES comes:

Henrich SPIES, born 1752/54 in Schwebda D-3441 (same as Friedrich), private soldier, 3.Comp., Kassel Regt. Erbprinz. on Muster Roll in 1775, and later listed as deserted in April 1781. No further information for this man has come in, and myself have had no inquiries for him from anybody. That's why he was not on my lists. But let's talk about his date of desertion, or that's the question, when he was reported as a deserted. The Kassel Erbprinz Regiment was shipped from New York to Portsmouth, Virginia in March 1781, where it joinred the Cornwallis army. Henrich Spies either deserted just before shipping out, which would mean he stayed around New York, or he deserted right after arrival in Portsmouth, Virginia, and made his way somewhere. In any event, so far nobody I know of, has asked for him. Perhaps he jumped ship, drowned, or whatever, and who knows, perhaps used another name. This brings us to the other Hessen-Kassel Jaeger Valentin SPIES, listed in the supplement to my Guide on page 116. This one is simple, he was born 1756/57 at Eichsfeld/Thuringia, served in the 4th Jaeger Company, and deserted in November 1783, just before the last of the Hessian troops left from New York.

From a letter written by EC Spiceland, dated June 15, 1891;

My Grandfather was a German being a Hessian and of men hired by England to fight against the Colonies in the Revolutionary War (about 1773). After the close of the war he remained in this country and married a North Carolina woman by whom he had 3 children, Sandford (my Father), Joshua and their sister named Martha. After his death his widow married a man named Sanford who had other children half brother, one of whom visited my father once named John Sanford who at that (1836 or 7) time lived in Alabama. My father married Mariam Copeland from Northampton Co. NC, who belonged to a large family. Many of my mother's relatives formerly lived in Northampton County but have had no correspondence since the War.