"Smileson" asks, >>Where can I find a roster of Capt. Aaron Aorson company? There is a book that: ? (patriots who served but did not live in the Mohawk Valley, NY area.)<< National Archives Micropublication 246, Rolls 65 and 66 have the First NY Regiment (Continental) surviving rolls except for a few that are in the papers of Andrew Finck. At www.fort-klock.com there is a roster of the First NY, with spelling errors and omissions, a snapshot mostly from ca. 1778 but with enlistment and discharge dates as published by Berthold Fernow. It's arranged by Company. A great little book, _History of the First New York Regiment 1775-1783_ by T. W. Egly Jr. (Hampton, NH: Peter E. Randall) is now out of print but you may be able to find a used copy. It has very detailed source notes so is a useful bibliography in addition to the published material. It missed some things, such as capture of some men of this Regiment in March 1777, but is a worthy regimental history. Perhaps you do not wish to know that no sooner had James and John Ryndart enlisted "at Fishkill" in 1782 (for 3 years) than they reported sick, and according to Egly were on Capt. Aorson's Company's roll. Egly gives them as archetypes of a fairly common syndrome; once some enlistees had received whatever bounty or inducement was offered, "men would become disillusioned and become 'sick' or desert" [p. 217]. Egly's allegation and conclusion may be unwarranted; a closer look at the actual rolls may tell you something more. One of my ancestors had enlisted for 9 months in another Regiment, and was in the Company 'hospital' with smallpox (having undergone vaccination) when his time expired. The next roll after expiry states that he 'deserted,' but there's no record of court-martial and he subsequently served actively in local militia campaigns. The full story is not explained by the few surviving records for this Regiment. There were shifts in and ajustment to Company rosters as time passed. Since your man enlisted when the Regiment had been essentially biding time around West Point (since after Yorktown), if he continued to report 'sick' he might have been assigned to a Company roster that was actually under strength with respect to men reporting for active duty. Fernow lists your man in a segment he calls "company not ascertained," having enlisted at the end of August 1782. Concerning folks who saw some service in the Mohawk Valley but did not live there, the "Bloodied Mohawk" site at www.fort-plank.org has a couple of pages of such persons. You have to hunt around, though, because links to all the site's pages do not appear on each page. Your man may have seen some service prior to enlistment in the First NY Regiment, so it's worth while checking in the other rosters at the Fort-Klock site, too. Good hunting, Judy