Jacob Peters' Drawings
Contributed by George Mindling and Tony Mindling

Jacob Peters' survived the Napoleonic wars to make his journey to America with his family in search of religeous freedom. These drawings provide a glimpse into that time...
Two of Jacob Peters' grandaughters married Mindling brothers Jacob and Nicholaus in the 1870's to found a couple of seriously huge Mindling clans. Many of Jacobs's possessions have thus been handed down through Mindling descendants, including the Peters farm in Ohio, and the drawings shown on this page.

Jacob was a soldier on both sides during the Napoleonic wars. He was about 21 when he was pressed into service in 1805 to fight in the French Army in Spain. After being taken prisoner by the Britsh In 1805 he eventually joined the British army to fight as an orderly sergeant in Spain, Canada and the West Indies under Moor and Wilson. As a soldier he became proficient in living off the land and knew seven languages. In 1815 he took part in the Battle of Waterloo as a member of the troops under Wellington's command.

Following the war he returned home to Durkheim, Bavaria, where he married Katherine Schlosser on March 8, 1815. Jacob and his family embraced the faith of Martin Luther. Lutheran's were not politically welcome in Germany at that time, and Jacob eventually emigrated to America in 1833. The family traveled to Baltimore, Ohio, via what was then the National Old Trail's Road. They arrived there on July 26, 1833, and settled on the ridge which separates Duck Creek and the Muskingum River in Watertown, Ohio.

Body Guard, 60th Regiment, 5th Battalion (from Tony Mindling's collection)


"Funflesbusaren Regiment aus Franckreich zu pferd" (from Tony Mindling's collection)

CAPTION 3 GOES HERE (from George Mindling's collection)

No annotation on this one (from Tony Mindling's collection)