I am looking for the Revolutionary War record of Alpheus Lewis, b. 26 Sep 1745 in Albemarle County, VA. In a 1942 Topeka newspaper article, his great-granddaughter Jennie Lewis Riner Aldrich stated that he was a member of a Pennsylvania regiment and spent the winter with Washington's Army at Valley Forge. No record has shown up yet for his service and he is not listed in the DAR Patriots Index. His son Thomas Lewis, b. 1779 in PA, received a land patent in Indiana in 1829. A grandson was named "James Alpheus Lewis," perhaps a clue that Alpheus enlisted under another name, such as James or John. jeanne bedwell