Unlike many of the other Hession soldiers who deserted before Germanys obligation to British were over, he did not desert his unit untill approx May 1783, when such appears on his record. He would remain almost "hidden" untill 1788, and then in 1788 begins to appear on records again. More @Wikipedia
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