Stubby, That is good news. My records state that the enlistment took place at Camp Germannia; however, these small notes on the records may have been condensed and not completely written out. Where would this "a camp near Germania Ford, Virginia" be located? My soldier was probably from Winchester-Frederick County, Virginia area at the time with possible connections to Frederick County, Maryland. He was in the VA 1st & 10th, 5th Regiment. Best regards, Chocy

Again, I can't be certain (because I find no reference so far to the year 1777 - only finding references in the Civil War era) but the articles I'm finding mention armies crossing Germania Ford on the Rapidan River. There's also a reference in an article that Germanna was often misspelled as "Germania". When I looked up Germanna, I'm finding that the Germanna Ford is now called Germanna Bridge because of the bridge that's built there now. The article goes on to mention that the Ford is "from the east ridge of Culpepper some 16 miles down to Germanna Ford.........." so this is an indication of it being either in the city of Culpepper (if there is one) and/or Culpepper County, Va. The article goes on to say something about some of the history of Germanna. "Germanna was so named after Queen Anne of England and the German refugees from religious persecution, who settled there between 1714 and 1720 and worked in Gov. Spotwood's iron mines and operated the first blast furnace in the new world." Germanna is also referenced to St. Mark's Parish, VA. Another articles says Germanna is in Orange County, VA. This is as much as I can extract at this point. What are the names of the ancestor(s) you are looking for? Stubby Chocybrown@aol.com wrote: Stubby, That is good news. My records state that the enlistment took place at Camp Germannia; however, these small notes on the records may have been condensed and not completely written out. Where would this "a camp near Germania Ford, Virginia" be located? My soldier was probably from Winchester-Frederick County, Virginia area at the time with possible connections to Frederick County, Maryland. He was in the VA 1st & 10th, 5th Regiment. Best regards, Chocy List Mom for the AMERICAN-REVOLUTION mailing list: Diana Boothe philsbarbie1@arkansasfamilies.net ------------------------------------------------------------------------ We have archives! Search for your AMERICAN-REVOLUTION information here..... http://listsearches.rootsweb.com/cgi-bin/listsearch.pl?list=AMERICAN-REVOLUTION ------------------------------------------------------------------------ Check out other genealogy resources on the net at John Fuller's most helpful site http://www.rootsweb.com/~jfuller/gen_mail.html ------------------------------- To unsubscribe from the list, please send an email to AMERICAN-REVOLUTION-request@rootsweb.com with the word 'unsubscribe' without the quotes in the subject and the body of the message __________________________________________________ Do You Yahoo!? Tired of spam? Yahoo! Mail has the best spam protection around http://mail.yahoo.com